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It’s 9:45AM Thursday and the camp launched a weather balloon! It is a red balloon filled with helium that is just let go in the wind. The sky is so grey today and we need to know if the cloud ceiling is too low for the plane to land. The cloud ceiling needs to be 2,000 feet or higher so a pilot can

After two nights of sleeping in the very cold girls’ tent, JP and Sarah suggested I move to a smaller, warmer tent. This tent had a portable radiator heater in it for Princess Victoria when she spent the night a few days ago. I was feeling a little wimpy about this until I entered the tent. What a

Why are scientists drilling ice cores anyway? The history of climate can be found in ice cores by a process called fractionation. Now that’s a spelling word! This just means that they break apart the oxygen molecule that they find in the bubbles in the ice core. They use an instrument called a Mass

How did they build an underground science lab like this? Many hours of snow blowing and chain sawing made the entrance, drill chamber and science trench. The ceiling of the structure is mainly plywood, but the ceiling in the hall that connects the drilling and science rooms is snow. They needed to

Buildings Life at NEEM begins and ends at the big black dome. This permanent building is 3 stories high, with a first floor kitchen, bathroom and dining room. It is heated by the waste heat of the generator that powers the camp. This waste heat also heats the snow melter that makes water for the

I arrived at NEEM camp with the Crown Prince of Denmark and Norway, and the Crown Princess Victoria from Sweden. With them came many members of the press from each of their countries and their body guards. There were so many people in this group that some of them had to be flown to the nearest city

10:30 AM-Our original take off time delayed due to weather at NEEM camp 10:45 AM-Weather clears at NEEM so we are given yellow earplugs and prepare to board 11:00 AM- The load master takes 10 passengers at a time for loading 11:30 AM- The "skier” (cargo plane with skis) really takes off! 12:00 PM

It’s Saturday morning and we were to have our luggage on the wooden pallet by 10 AM. All of our bags were marked with duct tape with our name in magic marker. Can you find mine on the pallet? My bag is made out of rubber and has a zipper like a zip lock baggie. Everything in a cargo plane is

When I was chosen as a PolarTREC teacher to work with OASIS in Barrow, Alaska my brother asked, "Why would a self-professed cold wimp like you volunteer to work in the Arctic in the early spring?" As I thought about it, the answer was much deeper than the temporary insanity that my family thought I

Last night Dorthe and Maggam brought pizza home for us. There were four different kinds, all with a dark brown meat of some kind on them. Everyone was speaking Danish so I just had two slices and listened to see if I could understand anything. The only word that did sound like English to me was