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Para Español hacer click en TRANSLATIONS en el menu de la parte superior Hello! Welcome to my new PolarTREC online journal where you can follow my new adventures as ** 2013-2014 PolarTREC teacher in Antarctica, South Pole**. Between this coming November and February of next year I will be

Traveling to Alaska makes for a very long day when coming from south Texas! I left my house at 8:15 a.m. By the time I arrived to the hotel it was 4:30 a.m. the next day! It was only 1:30 a.m. Alaska time so we got to sleep in. Our first day of orientation revealed how truly fortunate we ALL are to

Orientation Day #1: Planes, PowerPoint, and People## After three flights and sixteen hours of travel, I arrived in Fairbanks, Alaska on March 23 at 10:30 PM (1:30 AM in Oklahoma) for PolarTREC orientation and went straight to bed. When I woke up Sunday morning, my phone

Sled Dog Race## The GCI Open North American Championship Sled Dog Race took place in Fairbanks on March 15-17th. Fifteen dog sled teams participated from places like Alaska, Michigan, New York, Canada, and even Germany. The race was a 3-day event and the winner was determined by total

I’m in Alaska! That leaves Delaware as the only state I have not been to. Ironically Delaware was the first state to join the Union on December 7, 1787. In another twist, one of the PolarTREC teachers I met here lives in Delaware and after reading my first journal entry, invited me to visit so I

Orientation and training A chance meeting while running a hiking trip 3 years ago in the Adirondacks led me to PolarTREC. Dr. Amy Leventer of Colgate University was on that trip. Dr. Leventers’ experiences travelling and studying in Antarctic were so intriguing to me. My experiences in Outdoor

Fairbanks, I'm back... Well, it's been a bit of a journey to get here. Two car rides, three flights, four time zones and about 60 degrees cooler. I left Delaware Friday evening at 6 PM and arrived in Fairbanks, Alaska on Sunday morning at 1 AM. Here's a quick summary of the adventure thus far: *

I'm spending the summer WHERE?## Holy cow. When I was selected to become a PolarTREC teacher, I was excited beyond words…spending the summer in Alaska doing research that I can effortlessly integrate into my 7th grade curriculum? And it’s totally FREE? Are you kidding me? Who wouldn’t be excited

Chasing Aurora## Aurora are formed when energetic charged particles (protons and electrons) from the sun interact with earth’s magnetosphere. These can be seen as glowing lights in the night sky in the Polar Regions. Oxygen atoms give off green and red lights. Nitrogen molecules emit red, blue