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Hola los cientificos de Oyster! Preparan a viajar dentro de la tierra! Hard hat? Check! Flashlight? Check? Ready to travel back 40,000 years to the Pleistocene era? CHECK! Entering the Permafrost tunnel was like entering a fairyland of icicles and snowflakes. Oh right, except for the smell of

In the lower 48 states, we don’t often think about where our gasoline, diesel fuel, jet fuel and heating oil comes from. A lot of it comes from Alaska. Much of America’s oil reserves are underground on Alaska’s north slope, the flat area along the coast of the Arctic Ocean. There is only one

Life as a PolarTREC teacher in training is almost a 24-hour a day adventure for 8 days. After 16 hours traveling by car, three planes, and a van ride, I arrived at the hotel in downtown Fairbanks. Because of the 4-hour time difference between the East coast and Fairbanks, I promptly wake up at 3:30

Newspaper articles, TV interviews, public speaking engagements, oh my! I was so focused on meeting the other PolarTREC participants, learning about the programs expectations, and figuring out all the technology that I completely forgot that I have to start connect with the media and getting my

Orientation So you thought I was going to Russia...Why am I in Alaska? I am attending the 2009 Polar TREC orientation. I along with 19 other teachers, who will be traveling to the Arctic and Antarctic, are learning how to communicate with the world from the ends of the earth. The week has been very

Ever wonder what it is like to go inside permafrost? Well, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers did, and bored a tunnel. It is the only tunnel like it on this continent. Today we went into the permafrost tunnel. The walls of the tunnel are made of loess, which is dusty rock flour ground by

PolarTREC teacher Michael Wing describes some of the unique aspects of living in Fairbanks, Alaska in the audio journal below.

Listen to the audio journal below to learn more about Gary Wesche's week of PolarTREC training in Fairbanks, Alaska and the adventure to Antarctica he will be embarking on this fall!