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The second week of school and I already had an amazing guest come to meet my faculty, students, and their guardians; Dr. Heather Liwanag, head researcher from the team I will be joining in Antarctica. She flew from California to Massachusetts to participate in several meet-and-greets, attend open

Lessons Learned## Coming home after being 4000+ miles away was quite a journey. I was fortunate to sit next to a delightfully precocious 12 year old girl on my last leg home, and she was so interested in what I had just experienced. I realized just how much I promoted science in that short

Coming back to school was both exciting and overwhelming at the same time. Learning the names of 100+ students while having a very limited short term memory due to lack of sleep was one of the greatest challenges. I also had a hard time adjusting to it getting so dark so early - I love that Arctic

A unique feature of the PolarTREC program this year is the inclusion of both formal and informal educators. During orientation I connected with Oregon Museum of Science and Industry (OMSI) exhibit developer Allyson Woodward. Both of us were assigned PolarTREC expeditions focused on permafrost in

My last official day on expedition was spent doing the thing that got me interested in permafrost in the first place – we got to visit the Army Corp of Engineers Permafrost Tunnel. Tours of the tunnel have only been opened up to the general public once in its 50+ year history. This research

I am very excited to announce – today, we actually took the day off. Yes, that's one day off in one month. No measurements, no lab, no computers, no driving. A real day off. A day off, of course, doesn't mean getting any sleep. Christina and I woke up around 5:40am to drive into Denali National Park

The weather was absolutely perfect for our drive south yesterday. I am getting more and more used to the long hours in the truck. It is significantly easier when the weather is sunny – not only for the beautiful views, but less worry about slipping off the shoulder. I think I'd call driving in

As soon as I got the nod to head south this December, I bought myself a new camera – a Canon 80D. It's really quite marvelous. Here's a slideshow of our day touring last week outside Oaxaca, Mexico.

We went to a wool rug