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News Update Overnight we made our way south and west stopping along the way for a couple of overnight XCTD casts and arriving at station CB11b where the final ITP deployment. Since the ice has thinned considerably it was decided to deploy the ITP and its buoy into open water rather than onto the

News Update After Ice Station #1 yesterday we headed towards the southwest for our second ice station of the trip. I was a bit turned around when I got off the ship at about 9:30 am because the ships bow was pointed towards the south east, at least that was what I concluded by looking at the sun's

Steve is an oceanographer and works for the University of Alaska Fairbanks. He and his wife and their two dogs live in Kasilof, Alaska. He received his engineering degree at the University of Michigan. Steve then earned his teaching certification at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. He taught math

News Update Late last night we arrived at our now most northern point and first ice station which meant we would be on ice for a good chunk of the day. Our first ice station was coincidently our first polar bear sighting: a mother and two cubs. Because the ice was in the 1-2 meter thick range, it

News Update After finishing work at Station CB16 at about midnight last night, we are now headed in a northeasterly direction in search of suitable ice for the first ice station. We have been travelling at about 8 knots through plenty of ice since late yesterday but it is all in the 10 to 30

News Update## Our overnight northwesterly run towards PP7 was slowed somewhat. Persistent and rather thick blocks of ice and heavy fog kept the ship cruising at about 7 knots which is somewhat slower than our normal cruising speed of 10-12 knots. We expect to be headed north later in the day

News Update## We are on an easterly run towards station PP6 then will turn back towards the northwest heading for stations PP7 and CB15. By days end we expect to be heading directly north towards station CB16 and then farther north possibly as far north as 83˚N (only 7 degrees or 777 km or 486

"Hey there's an Aurora!" That was all we needed to hear at about 1:30am to send us out into the dark cold night! I had stayed up late to work on our PolarTREC webinar that was coming up in a few days, and was very glad that I was already awake to see natures light show! It's about 3am now...and I

News Update## Late yesterday we set a course to the northwest heading for our next two stations CB40 then CB18. We did, however, spend some extra time at CB51. The first attempt at a rosette CTD cast had to be aborted because of communications issues. Since the two individuals who knew how to