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I’m back in Punta Arenas; we arrived last night while I was sleeping. It’s a rainy, gray day. I’ll be moving off the ship tomorrow and in the mean time need to return my ECW gear and get repacked and organized for my flight home on 3-14. I’m really excited to get home, but am also feeling a bit

Donna Patterson-Fraser is a seabird ecologist and a bird whisperer, for certain. The opportunity to get out in the field with Donna and field biologists Jen Blum and Shawn Farry during my time at Palmer Station was incredible. Donna has been studying birds in Antarctica for the past twenty-two years

Speed 0 knots (kts) As of right now, it looks like we're still stuck in Punta Arenas for a couple more days. There have been a number of delays and that probably means the cruise will be extended and we'll be arriving back later than we expected in April. ##Seno Otway In order to keep us

They caught my attention immediately. It’s funny how something so obvious and expected can stop you in your tracks. A casual observation on my first day in Fairbanks was the missing company of the sun in the sky. At noontime I altered course from the dog sled race to find it, eventually turning a

I mentioned in yesterday’s journal that while sitting in Poland’s Arctowski Station on King George Island, I thought a great deal about the Antarctic Treaty. The treaty states that Antarctica is to be used for peaceful purposes only and that no nation can establish military bases or test weapons

I enjoyed our tour of Arctowski, a Polish scientific research station on King George Island yesterday. The people stationed there were friendly and welcoming and had the coffee tables loaded with jam-filled cookies, chocolate, nuts and other goodies. We had coffee and tea together, talked a bit and

After quite a few delays, I found myself sleeping on board the Nathaniel B. Palmer (NBP) last night. From the picture below you can see it's quite a large boat and there's about 70 people on board including all the scientists and crew members. There's a tugboat tied up next to us at the pier which

Today we picked up four people from an American field camp, called Copacabana, on King George Island. The camp belongs to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and is used by penguin biologists as a study site. The biologists have been stationed there since mid-October and are