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So This is What 5° Looks Like!## ##Orientation Day 2: Information Sponge## The majority of the day was spent in a conference room, which has its pluses and minuses. * Plus: Lee Cooper gave a phenomenal overview of the Arctic and Antarctic oceans and the changes that are happening in those

Some things are crystal clear...... ###Texas Girls 0 Ice Park 3 Jill Smith (Northern Alaska Coastal Ecosystems 2013) and I rented a car to do some sight seeing, first stop the Ice Park. We both felt fairly confident about our selection of cold weather wear until we lasted about 20 minutes outside

Our first full day of training has been very informative. I am grateful to be learning to navigate this Mac Book. I may be converted in the process. I was able to move the pictures we had taken on the first night with the school camera to the iPhoto program but wasn't able to do anything further

We made it to Fairbanks today after a long day of travel from Chicago. While in O'Hare, I met Mark Buesing, a physics teacher from Libertyville, IL, who has an uncanny knack for recognizing strangers from their expedition page photos. He will be leaving on a NASA trek to Greenland within 48 hours of

A journey begins with a first step…… My flight took off at 10:50 AM Friday and arrived around 1:30 AM the next morning. So.....to arrive in Fairbanks, Alaska from Corpus Christi, Texas takes 10 flying hours and 4 plane changes covering 3704 miles. Of course being in south Texas where snow is

U.S. Students Selected for JSEP 2013 We received a total of 375 applications from students in 43 states. A panel of distinguished Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) educators and scientists carefully reviewed each application and made recommendations as to the finalists. The

End of Orientation's First Day Here I am in my car in the restaurant parking lot, waiting for the group to arrive. This is a local establishment for me, and I drove so that I can go straight home afterwards. How different from my PolarTREC colleagues, who flew in to a somewhat cool and snowy

In June and July I’ll be a PolarTREC teacher, working with a research team at the Toolik Field Station, above the Arctic Circle. We’ll be studying the effects of climate change, trying to better understand what’s going to happen to carbon frozen underground as the permafrost melts. Some might wash

It’s been nearly four years since I’ve been back to Alaska. Last time I was here it was for my wedding in the summer of 2009 out in the heart of the Wrangell Mountains; friends, family, fireweed, summer, salmon. My only experiences in Alaska before this week have been during a handful of summers

Until immersion happens in a much anticipated life altering event there is no real way to do anything other than ponder inexact expectations and hope and plan for the best. The PolarTREC process began last summer (2012) with a lengthy application process. In my case, with climate scientist friend