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It was a lovely and beautiful day at Summit Station. We woke up early in the morning in order to enjoy this wonder of nature. Whilst taking a small walk to the Big House, we found ourselves amazed at the heat inside the outhouse. The breakfast food was good old regular American breakfast. After a

Are you an aviation enthusiast? I am. I love flying and got my pilot license in 2006 so I was very excited to visit the Anchorage Aviation Museum. While exploring the museum I learned about a very famous airplane crash in Barrow, Alaska. Will Rogers and Wiley Post were killed on August 15, 1935 in

Today was the big day. The day that all of us remaining had been waiting for since the start of the Project: our trip to Summit! The scientists talked about Summit like it was some mythical place, a land of never-ending candy, deep ice cores, and below-freezing temperatures. Honestly, the Aput group

We began the day with breakfast at the airport, though thanks to a small technical error ended up in the wrong place of the airport where the choice of food was a bit below average. Afterwards we regrouped upstairs in the JSEP building's top floor / presentation room to hear about lakes and more

I have been home now for about a week since my "polar to solar" travels from the North Slope of Alaska, to the tropics of Hawaii. What an incredible journey! Experiences like this can have a profound effect on people, and I am sure this is the case in my situation. The PolarTrec experience took me

Today we woke up with mixed feelings, since it was the last day for half of the students. After breakfast we gathered for a short presentation by Vena Chu, whose field of expertise was hydrology. She discussed water discharge from two types of rivers: supraglacial and subglacial rivers. After that

Our first field school experience was setting the albedo sticks down at Point 660. How ironic that today, our last big field school experience, was at Point 660 as well. Breakfast was not bad. After about two weeks, I got used to the taste of peanut butter. Before we left for Point 660, we

This morning we woke up to the wonderful rendition of Vuffeli-vov by the Danish students. It was new experience for the American students but a relatable experience for the Greenlandic students. Have you ever gotten the chance to look for real fossils? Well, we got that chance to look for fossils