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If you are from Seattle, and if you lived there in the ‘70’s, you know the emotional meaning of "Will the last one out turn off the lights!” Well, today, that would be me. This amazing PolarTREC orientation week has come to an end. This gathering of strangers that became so connected and bonded

Happy Easter to every one back home... Here in Russia, Easter will be celebrated next week! I have been working on a series of videos... conversations with Julie Brigham-Grette about Lake E, geology, wildlife and our project. Here is the first... a description of our location here at Lake E. http:/

Since my expedition is still a few months off, I haven't made a whole lot of progress in preparing for my trip... though I did find a nice "mascot" for my classroom. Any suggestions for a name? At the end of March, I gave a 20-minute presentation to the regional AAPT spring meeting, I felt a little

Today was another full day out here at Lake E. On the drill rig we recovered more sediment cores today than many of the previous days. As I mentioned yesterday on one of the Ask the team questions, I've been occupied with many different activities. Yesterday I built a wooden cabinet for one of the

I wanted to share the video about ice safety. If you read yesterday's post, I told you about working with Volker Neth our German-Canadian Ice engineer. Here he is in his own words describing work on the ice platform. http://

It was good to talk with many of you

Lat: 59 52.757N Long: 173 31.007W What's a CTD? And for that matter, what's the difference between a CTD STD and a CTD PROD? Nearly everything that happens, scientifically speaking, on the Healy revolves around the deployment of this mysterious CTD. For the first few days, I pretended to know what

This year at my school we decided to have our first annual Mosaic Day. Mosaic Day is when the teachers get to teach about their hobbies instead of their regular classes. The students get to pick a teacher that they want to hang out with for the day and they learn about that hobby. It is a great way