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Sitting on the porch after the first morning of our virtual orientation I had a new profound sense of how just how blessed I am to be selected to be part of the PolarTREC professional community. I walked away from my computer out on the front porch to get some sun and the realization of ‘I’ve made

From my childhood days... Hi everyone! My name is Elaine and I am SO excited to be a PolarTREC educator this year! I've always loved science as long as I can remember. I grew up in the Midwest which was a great place to explore the world. When I was 10 years old, I asked for a telescope and a

Alone Together My first grade teacher was extraordinary. A kind, older woman, she could transform her classroom into anything. I remember being a whale lost amongst my dolphin peers--trying to find other whales by undulating the weirdest noise we could collectively come up with at the time. Yet

Here through an Amazing Sequence of Events I am so thrilled that I was selected to participate in the 2020-2021 field season of the PolarTrec program. What might be a diversion of life’s course for some, feels like a connect-the-dots to me. After graduating from Beloit College with a degree in

Be flexible with lost luggage, getting sick, delayed flights, missed trains, date changes, weather... I didn’t expect an international viral outbreak to be on that list. Yet, I must remain flexible. I'm trying to get used to the uncertainty of the daily (sometimes hourly) decision making required of

For those of you out there unable to attend science class right now, there are plenty of ways to grow your science skills at home. Some of the things I wanted to do with my students when I returned from Antarctica could easily be done under the supervision of a parent - or perhaps be entirely self

Let's Get It Started! January 6, 2020. I head to mandatory professional development after a winter break filled with food, family, and the flu (type A). My colleagues smile in greeting and ask,"Well...???" They all want to know what's happened. Its been several weeks since my PolarTREC interviews

When I found out I had been selected for PolarTREC, I was very excited and surprised. I participated in an expedition to the Arctic in 2009 with the Armada Project and was bit by the "Polar Bug." I had never imagined the profound effect that a place could have on me. The scale, starkness, and

If at first you don't succeed... It took a long, long time for me to get to this point: I've been selected as a PolarTREC educator and will be heading out out on a research trip to McMurdo Station, Antarctica in fall 2020! I have applied for this position a number of times before, so when I