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To some of you the concept of a snow day may seem foreign. To many including myself it was an unplanned day off of sorts. It usually involved wearing your pajamas inside out and putting ice in the toilet before you went to bed when you were a child. Now that I am older I refrain from such folly (As

We are now in our 31^st day at sea. We spent 7 days transiting the southern ocean from Hobart Tasmania to the East Antarctic coast. During that time we crossed the latitudes dubbed the ferrous 50's and the screaming 60's. Since we arrived at the continent we have been working our way ice and open

I remember being intrigued and confused when I heard my biology high school biology teacher talk about stromatolites, the oldest fossils found on Earth. I wanted to know more about the apartment building, as she described the stromatolites, of the oldest known bacteria that inhabited Earth three

Luke A couple days ago, Janet, an ARCUS coordinator, gave us the go for an online webinar. A webinar is a presentation over the web where one can talk to a whole group of people via computer. So we began to prepare a slide show and presentation for the event. We put together an outline of our

Chile is a great place to study geology. The land has little sediment or plant life, which lets you see all kinds of rock structures that wouldn't normally be exposed. Our visit to Torres del Paine National Park on Saturday was filled with interesting geological sights. With the help of Juan as well

"Girls just wanna have fun! Oh girls just wanna have... Thats all we really want! Oh girls just wanna have fun!" Thanks Cindi Lauper for the lyrics #Meet Aislinn Lavoie# #What’s in the Bag?# So, I get to Hawaii and what does my teacher make us do? Make a video about something from

Ok so maybe we don't have a swimming pool on deck or nightly stage show on board. Who needs them. Actually the pool might come in handy for a quick game of shinny after work as the air temperature is hovering around 0 degrees. ## Life on Board update Let me give you a little tour of where we live

Aloha e aloha e 'Ano 'ai ke aloha e Aloha ae aloha e A nu ay ki aloha e There's no place I'd rather be Then on my surfboard out at sea Lingering in the ocean blue And If I had one wish come true I'd surf till the sun sets Beyond the horizon Thanks Lilo and Stitch for the song theme. ## Meet

We are back posting in the journal. We devoted the little free time we had for preparing the PolarConnect live event that we had today. The event was recorded, so if you want to see the event, no longer live, check the main page of the expedition for the link. It might take a couple of days to be

For the majority of the working world hump day is Wednesday, half way through another work week. For the rest it varies depending on their work schedule. For the folks on the N B Palmer it was Feb. 21^st 2014. The mid-point in our 46 day cruise to East Antarctica from Hobart, Tasmania. ##