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A Typical Day## Now that I have been here for several days I can provide an accurate description of what a typical flight day is like. 5:30 am - The flight crew mechanics open up the plane and begin preparing it for takeoff. If the temperature is below 0ºF they will have to deploy the diesel

Jacobshvn Glacier## On April 15, 1912 the HMS Titanic struck an iceberg and sunk within two and a half hours, taking 1500 lives with her. Almost certainly the iceberg had calved off the Jakobshavn Glacier of Western Greenland. The largest and fastest moving glacier of Western Greenland, the

Spring Break## So it's the first day of Spring Break and what did I do? I had the pleasure of spending the day at Brooklyn Prospect Charter School and teaching Mrs. Brown's 9th grade Earth Science classes about the expedition and how they can participate. What a wonderful group of kids! Thank you

First Flight## Today marked my first flight aboard the P3 aircraft. I walked from my room in the KISS building over to the plane this morning around 7 am - about a 5 minute commute. The only things that spoiled my otherwise pleasant stroll was the drone of the P3's APU unit in the background (the

On to Kangerlussuaq## I was surprised to see that my plane flying to Kagerlussuaq (pronounced Kanger-loo-swak) is the exact same model (A330 - which is a widebody) that flew me from Minneapolis to Paris. Why such a need for that kind of capacity? After all, Kanger has a population of about 500

We boarded the plane back to Madison. As we left behind the tall mountains around Santiago we pledged to do whatever we could do, that would bring us back to this magical land so we could finish the expedition. We did not make it to Antarctica and left many things unfinished, but even with that, we

In Copenhagen## After 20 hours of flying I got only about 2 hours of sleep - a bit less than I was hoping for. Since the seats in planes these days are so cramped I could not reasonably work on my laptop while flying as the ergonomics are akin to trying to do ballet in an old phone booth (to use

I'm off!## After packing and repacking last night I finalized my gear and am ready to go. The total weight of everything I'm taking checks out as follows: Luggage by the numbers: * Checked bag: 30 lbs - Has all of my clothes and little else * Carry on: 17 lbs - This is almost entirely full of