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Saving the Best for Last For my last two Antarctic dives, Rob Robbins and Steve Rupp arranged for a new hole to be drilled at a dive site known as Turtle Rock. While I knew it would make for some memorable diving, I didn't know just how memorable! ## Meet the Antarctic Octopus Octopus are

Friday, October 21...I have 2 weekends left in Ohio before I make my voyage to the Arctic. The time is passing quickly and it will soon be time for me to leave. My classes have been busy getting ready. My freshman have been working on a density experiment that was the highlight of one of my journals

The McMurdo Research team, Steve Sweet, Andrew Klein and Terry Palmer, drove to Austin to give presentations to almost 1000 students at O.Henry Middle School on Wednesday. The researchers shared pictures and movies with students about what it was like to work in Antarctica and the purpose of their

Given the limited time I have remaining at McMurdo, it seemed wise to take a look at a few of the other work centers around the station. Today, I received three great tours of the Power, Water, and Wastewater plants. ##Electricity We rely on power for everything here in McMurdo - from lights to heat

What do you do for fun? A lot of students have been asking what we do for fun down here at McMurdo Station. Here's a quick list of fun activites that we have completed: * Play boardgames (Mike and Stephanie even discovered a boardgame from 1962) * Watch movies * Go to talks about science or

How many gloves do you really need?? This has been an exciting week! I have been receiving FedEx packages all week! It feels like Christmas when I open them up and find out what is inside. I have the task of matching Dr. Ashjian's personal packing list with the items that I have received from Robbie

My freshman Physical Science classes just completed a lab on density. Density is the mass per unit volume of a substance. My students describe it as how closely the particles in a substance are packed together. If the particles are very close, the substance has a fairly high density. Density is