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Traveling South So, today is the first travel day of our trip to McMurdo Station Antarctica. It will take a car, four airplanes, and a lot of patience to get us to our last stop before Antarctica: Christchurch, New Zealand. My day began early, putting the final touches on my packing before I met

Getting ready... The most common question I've gotten recently is "How do you prepare for a trip to Antarctica?" And the answer is you can't possibly prepare by yourself. Preparing for a trip to Antarctica takes the help of many, many people. The first step in the process is to sort through the

After the wind-down of the field season and the students' presentations of their science talks in Longyearbyen, this phase of our REU has ended. So we felt it appropriate to let everyone who has been following the "Fellowship of the Fjord" (as the students ended-up calling us) know just how pleased

Lesson from Chicago When we arrived in Chicago, it was extremely hot, with a heat index over 100˚F. I was traveling with a group of teachers and we had A LOT of luggage. We were staying at a hotel that sent a shuttle to the airport to pick us up. I felt so bad for the driver who had to load all of

At the beginning of the school year I ask my students to describe what they think a scientist looks like. Their pictures resemble the results you get if you do a google image search for "scientist" [see for yourself](http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=firefox-a&hs=rvt&rls=org.mozilla:en-US

Have you had a busy summer? I sure have. Here are some of the highlights from mine. ##Philadelphia My first trip this summer was to Philadelphia. For a week, I explored amazing new technology for the classroom at ISTE, the International Society for Technology Education. I got some great new ideas. I

It's amazing what 48 hours of travel will do. Each leg of my trip involved larger aircraft and put me in more crowded and busy places. We left our camp at Raven Bluff around 11AM on August 8th. By 6:30 that evening we were in Fairbanks. At 1AM on August 10th, barely enough time to dry out my clothes

Snow in August We arrived in Longyearbyen on Thursday afternoon after a bit of touch-and-go over whether we'd actually get out of Ny Ålesund. After 4 weeks of almost nonstop nice weather, we awoke Thursday morning to a snowstorm! It was actually pretty cool to see the area being blanketed with a

Glacier and Wildlife Watching Cruise - Seward Alaska My second adventure in Seward was a morning glacier and wildlife watching cruise. The boat left the dock at 8:00am and with about 50-75 people aboard. I, of course, perched myself at the very front of the boat with both cameras in hand ready

When did it start getting dark at night? It didn't seem like we travelled all that far today, but apparently we have not only re-entered so-called civilization, we have re-entered a land of real sunsets and sunrises. While Fairbanks may still be a long way from home, it is also feels a long way from