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Location: Drifting in the pack ice in the Bellingshausen Sea. Latitude: 70° 26¢ S Longitude: 93° 54¢ W Air temperature: **- 11.4 °C (11.5 °F) **Wind chill temperature: - 35.4 °C (- 32 °F) Wind speed: 25 to 30 knots (29 to 35 mph) Relative humidity: 75.4 % **Barometric

What an exciting thought: imagine a 16 year old girl whom I had not seen in 8 years writing me a thank you letter in the middle of a snow storm from an Arctic village called Rankin Inlet last April. She was thanking me for the Antarctic presentation I gave to her class when she was 8!! A teacher's

Monday I endured the stress test and echocardiogram that Raytheon ordered. On Tuesday the dentist drilled out and filled in a couple of cavities. (It's a bummer the pics that the dental assistant took during the procedures didn't come out, she said she had one showing the needle going into my gum.)

Location: Drifting in the pack ice in the Bellingshausen Sea. Latitude: 70° 31¢ Longitude: 93° 07¢ Air temperature: -11.9 °C (10.6 °F) Relative humidity: 75.1% Barometric pressure: **946.7 mBar **Antarctic trivia (answer at the end of this journal entry): Are there polar

Location: Drifting in the pack ice in the Bellingshausen Sea. Latitude: 70° 38′ S Longitude: 92° 13′ W Air temperature: -13.9 °C (7.0 °F) Wind chill: -42.9 °C (-45.2 °F) Water temperature: -1.7 °C (28.9 °F) Relative humidity: 74.8% Barometric pressure: 936.8 mBar *

Dr. Stacy Kim and Rusty Fairey both work at Moss Landing Marine Laboratories in Moss Landing, California. The Dr. in front of Stacy's name stands for "Doctor" but she isn't a medical doctor. There are "doctors" in many fields. After the four years of college, there is even more to learn! You can get

Two members of the SCINI team, Nick and Bryan, are both "undergraduates" - that means they go to college but haven't completed getting their degrees yet. There are no colleges, universities or even towns in Antarctica. Bryan is taking a leave from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Nick

Location: **In the pack ice, in the Bellingshausen Sea, in transit to our multi-week drift station. **Latitude: 70° 38¢ S Longitude: **90°42¢ W **Air temperature: - 3.7°C (25°F) Water temperature: -1.8°C (29°F) Relative humidity: 74% Barometric pressure: 945 mBar **Antarctic

Well, school has been back in session for awhile now and all my students know about my trip to Antarctica! There is a lot of anticipation and excitement, but I am trying to keep the focus on "the job at hand”, at least for now. I still have about two months before deployment. In fact, right now I am