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Astounding, spectacular, stupendous, sensational, wondrous, amazing, incredible, good...not finding it. There is not a word in the book to describe what today felt like, so I'll invite you to relive it with me right now and maybe you'll feel it too. ## Coffee With an Astronaut Conversation over

Hello, everyone! We will be heading out on science flights soon as the team makes their way back from Fairbanks, later this week. In the meantime, I have had some wonderful opportunities to learn about the big science objectives supported by OIB, as well as some of the instruments that are used

Living and working on the edge of one of the only two ice sheets in this great big world is a truly humbling experience. An ice sheet is defined as a mass of glacier ice which covers an area of land greater than 50,000 square kilometers. Today I experienced what it feels like to look out over the

The data collected by NASA's Operation IceBridge campaign is distributed to research groups all over the world who are studying the poles to improve models of Earth's changing ice sheets. But how is all of that data collected and what does it look like? Every spring the OIB team heads to the Arctic

Hello everyone! I am settled here in Greenland and have had the chance to catch up with some of the science team here on the ground. While the remainder of the team is flying out of Fairbanks to complete several priority science flights, I had some time get to know Thule and begin to experience life

Hello, PolarTREC-ies! I write this to you from a very quiet section of BWI just before midnight, still here in the U.S but not for long. About a dozen passengers are waiting in section E for our northbound flight, a B757 combination passenger/cargo aircraft. When I arrived at BWI, it took a bit of

The time is here, everyone! In less than 24 hours I will be on schedule to head out of the United States, bound for the Arctic Circle where I will meet the Operation IceBridge Team in Thule, Greenland! We've been gearing up in Coal Township with preK-12 activities, full school assemblies, and live