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Local Teacher Heads to North Pole

Andre' Senior of WVEC (ABC affiliate) news interviewing Sandra Thornton about the upcoming Chukchi Borderlands expedition. This is the evening edition of the interview.

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Quincy Teacher to Spend Six Weeks in Antarctica

Article from the Patriot Ledger (Quincy, MA) introducing the Southern Ocean Diatoms PolarTREC expedition. The article focuses on a presentation for North Quincy High School students by Dr. Bethany Jenkins. Jenkins, as well as graduates students from the University of Rhode Island spoke to students about diatoms, life on the R/V Nathaniel B. Palmer and specific tools and techniques related

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7 June 2016 Fairy Tale City

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Hans Christian Andersen Copenhagen is the city of fairy tale author Hans Christian Andersen who you might know from Frozen, The Little Mermaid, and so many other stories. His home is now a banquet space on the Tivoli Gardens amusement park grounds, his statue views it from across the street

Eastern Shore teacher will head to research mission in the Arctic

Andre' Senior of the local ABC affiliate, WVEC, interviewed me about my upcoming PolarTREC expedition on the Healy.

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6 June 2016 A Train Ride to Sweden

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An Important Day in History Today is June 6, recorded in history as D-Day (or D-dag) if you are in Denmark. This is the anniversary of the day in 1944 when the Allies stormed the beaches at Normandy to liberate Europe from the Nazis. It's is sobering to think that 72 years ago this beautiful

5 June 2016 Constitution Day in Denmark

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History and Science I spent the morning at the National Museum (Nationalmuseet) where I learned about Danish history. The timeline started with Neandertals (prehistoric relatives of humans) and went right up to the present day. (For those of you who have read The Lord of the Rings, I learned

4 June 2016 A Palace Fit for a Queen

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Christiansborg Slot I am here in Copenhagen, Denmark where it is unseasonably warm, 79 degrees Fahrenheit! The sun is shining, and it's a beautiful day. I'm pretty tired since I really haven't slept since yesterday. I spent my first afternoon in Denmark on an island called Slotsholmen which

4 June 2016 Biodiversity Is More Than Just Pretty

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Why Biodiversity? As I sit on my back deck on the outskirts of our rural seaside community, I hear a rich variety of birdsong. Squirrels find remnants of last year's black walnuts and pecans and look to this year's fresh crop of applies and pears. Rabbits nibble on tender grass and other new

3 June 2016 Arctic Deams

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The First Step is to Dream A lot of the fun in adventuring is to dream about where you might go, what you might see and who you might meet along the way. For me, dreaming begins at the library and lucky for me, my librarian feeds my dreams with many marvelous books. From the deep recesses of my

2 June 2016 Wilderness First Aid

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WFA In May I was lucky enough to attend the Wilderness First Aid (WFA), commonly known as “WooFa” training with Mike Loranty and the rest of the research team heading to Siberia. I didn’t get it at first, WFA - WooFa… Anyway, the training took place at the Woods Hole Research Center [(WHRC)](http