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Today we walked from the conference center to the river and the dock area. We took a tour on the Canadian Coast Guard Ship Amundsen. The Amundsen is a 1200 medium class Arctic icebreaker that was built in 1979 to help clear the ice from the St. Lawrence River. It was originally named the Sir John

The big conference opened today with over 3,000 teachers, scientists, policy makers, and indigenous people gathered in one room and focused on polar knowledge! It’s a pretty cool site to be with so many people that you have something in common with. There are 47 countries represented here from the

For the first time in 6 weeks, I don’t get to start my journal with a speed, course, and location heading. My luggage and I arrived safely back in San Francisco this morning after leaving on Saturday afternoon. It took 3 flights for me to get to California and some of the researchers had to catch 4

The Montreal PolarEDUCATOR workshop was fantastic! There were 170 teachers and other educators sitting in the lecture hall on Saturday morning, all ready to talk and learn about polar science. We started with a short walk to the metro station, which took us to the Botanical Gardens and the workshop

I finally made it to Montreal! After ten hours on an airplane and several more hours in airports, and one weather delay, I have arrived in Canada and begun to meet some of the other teachers and folks involved with the PolarEducator Workshop. It’s a great group of people fro all over the United

Speed 12.4 knots Course 226° Location Straits of Magellan (-53.07429833, -70.698715) Sorry for my absence the last couple days. The ship turned into a ghost town as we crossed the Drake Passage and everyone curled up in their bunks to deal with being tossed around by the rough sea

My teacher colleagues from Denmark and Greenland headed home this morning, and I was disappointed to see them go. It’s been interesting learning about schools here in Greenland as well as those in Denmark. Here in Greenland for example many students live in remote parts of the country. The total

We had another great day of shoveling snow and clearing out the warming side of the fences. We have not completed all of Site A and all of Site B, and we are halfway through Site C. So there is enough left for tomorrow to still keep everyone busy. Jamie and Brian have left and we are settling in for

Speed 12.3 knots Course 321° Location Bransfield Strait (-62.27022167, -56.72387333) Depth 1193 meters Although we didn’t make a lot of progress through the ice yesterday, we finally made it out into mostly open water today. The landscape has changed dramatically from solid ice