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PolarTREC Acceptance They say persistence pays off! For the past several years, I've been obsessed with the Polar regions - starting with my trip to the Arctic Svalbard, my time in Iceland, and particularly after spending last summer in the National Parks of Alaska. I've applied multiple times to

This is my first journal, and as such, it is going to be a very short test run. I'm simply going to invite you to listen to the podcast, "Your Teacher is Going Where?" that Erin & I have created to help us document our travels, experiences, and the amazing science we're going to learn. https:/

One of the most beautiful things I enjoyed doing during my 2015 "Narwhal" expedition in Pond Inlet, was to take pictures from the view outside our basecamp. Since the sun doesn't set in the Arctic during the summertime, sleep is reduced to a couple of hours. The energy of the sun also seems to power

What's Happening Now? As the general public continues to receive news, updates, witness accounts, videos and other information regarding COVID-19, conferences and organizational meetings around the world are being affected. Many organizations are considering whether and how to address the

Staying Safe The news reports coming from the world north of us continue to focus on the ways in which the coronavirus is changing day-to-day life for millions upon millions of people. Yet for us, on a ship in the Southern Ocean that has been at sea and effectively quarantined, day-to-day life is

We have wrapped up the bulk of our science work and have shifted our attention to the trip home. Although there are a couple of planned stops along the way (to retrieve some science gear that has been collecting data since it was deployed in the first week of our expedition and to run a couple of

Another Day, Another Core Unlike the Kasten core, which is a single 3-meter long barrel, the megacore has 12 short tubes. Each tube has the potential to capture up to 60 cm of water and sediment right at the seafloor - many of the researchers here are interested in studying that sediment

After yesterday's surprise appearance by what was most likely a polychaete of some sort, today we encountered a strange creature that we are having a lot of trouble identifying. We first spotted it at the water-sediment interface in a megacore tube, looking like this: When I tried to extract it

What in the World??? We collected what might be our final sediment cores today in an area known as Cranton Bay. I was scooping out a sample from the 0-2 cm layer when I noticed something firm and cylindrical in the mud. Rachel grabbed a pair of tweezers and started to pull, gradually extracting a

A View to a Krill Barry and Sheldon, the two Electronics Techs onboard, manage a diverse array of equipment for the science team and the boat crew. They can fix things that break and build things that don't already exist from the materials they have onboard. On this trip, they were asked to