Back Home## I left Greenland around noon on April 24th. That morning three of us were headed out on the flight to Copenhagen. Before finalizing our packing we walked out to the P3 one more time to say goodbye to the crew before they took off. They had one last hight priority mission over Eastern
This past week our school completed our annual Experiential Education Week. My Course was titled Polar to Solar. Though the students did not really go "polar", we did all climb to the top of a 12,200 foot peak in the La Sal range of Utah. Here, students experienced alpine tundra conditions first
Last Flight## Clouds continued to sock in most of Greenland this morning so none of those routes were available. Our only other alternative was a low priority mission that over Baffin Island, Canada. It costs a lot of money to fly any mission but with the number of weather delays we have had thus
Exploration of the Antarctic continent did not occur until the late 1800’s, and the South Pole was first reached on December 14, 1911. Courage, planning, and technology have been the main components of Antarctic exploration from the earliest days. This classroom activity is designed to highlight the historical elements of the past 100 years of exploration in Antarctica and
PolarTREC teacher Andrea Skloss’ lesson was inspired by her Chukchi Sea Ecosystem Study aboard the USCGC Healy. In order to understand why this area is a biological hot spot of productivity, scientists must study components such as the trophic levels and more.
Objectives
In organisms and environments, the student knows that interdependence occurs among living systems and the environment
Another Day, Another Weather Day## The weather once again kept us grounded today. I guess every five years so it seems that the spring weather here in Kanger is pretty bad for the OIB team. Thus far the temperature has probably been above freezing for maybe a few hours, at most, while I've been
102 men and women received the United States government's highest honor for scientists and engineers in the early stages of their independent research careers--the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). The National Science Foundation (NSF) nominated 20 of the awardees, including PolarTREC researcher Samantha Hansen.
Back in the Air## We flew a fantastic mission to the East Coast of Greenland today. That area has some of the most scenic coastline you'll ever see - ice or no ice. And some of the most predicable turbulence. We had modest turbulence for much of our time over there, enough to spill coffee creamer
Easter Sunday## As mentioned previously we do not fly on Sundays. And Easter Sunday is more special than most here. Since Greenland is about 88% Lutheran Easter, the locals takes this day to heart. A case in point is that the one grocery store in town was open for only a few hours on Friday, not
We’ve been back in the United States for about a month and a half now, and it’s time for all of us to reflect on what our Chilean experience meant to us. It seems like ages ago, but when we were in the Madison airport waiting for our flight to Atlanta, we each wrote a short paragraph about our
