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The school year is starting! So, why am I going to Colorado? (In Deutsch: siehe unten) It is Labor Day, 2007 and I am flying to be with my Antarctic research team. Tomorrow school starts in all of the USA except for me. After many years of teaching, I received a teacher-enhancement year , or a

Location: **Palmer Station on the Antarctic Peninsula. **Latitude: 64° 49.3171′ S Longitude: 64° 03.3766′ W Antarctic trivia (answer at end of this journal entry): Who owns Antarctica? The residents of Palmer Station warmly welcomed our invasion! Most of the science party and support team

Location: **Palmer Station on the Antarctic Peninsula **Latitude: 64° 49.3171′ S Longitude: 64° 03.3766′ W Palmer Station Today dawned bright and sunny – a rarity for this part of the world. We had a meeting first thing to determine the status of our scientific equipment, communication

Living on an island in the middle of the ocean has it's ups and downs. So does being an indigenous people. One of the reasons I wanted to be a part of PolarTREC so badly, was that I wanted my students to learn about other cultures who experience their same lifestyle. My wish came through when I

Location: **In the South Pacific Ocean, near Palmer Station on the Antarctic Peninsula. **Latitude: 64° 49.3171′ S Longitude: 64° 03.3766′ W We awoke today to a sea full of pancakes! Pancake ice, that is. Actually, our first sea ice was encountered last night around 11:00 PM. We’ll have ice

**Location: **In the Drake Passage between South America and Antarctica During the early morning hours of September 4 we were awakened by the sound of the fire alarm and ship’s whistle. After grabbing our safety gear we headed to our muster station. (A muster station is a pre-determined location for

Sometimes wonderful things happen to you when you least expect it. Grant writing is indeed a long and involved process. Don't let anyone convince you that it's not. However, once in a while, you become the focus of OTHERS hard work, and can get funding in a serendipitous way. That is what happened

Location: Straits of Magellan Latitude: 55° 15.818′ Longitude: 76° 41.2399′ Temperature: 5.6 °C (42.08 °F) Wind chill: -0.7 °C (33.3 °F) Barometer: 985.6 mBar Relative Humidity: 68.9% Antarctic trivia question (answer at end of this journal entry): Who was the first

Location: Punta Arenas, Chile and the Straits of Magellan Latitude: 53° 10.449′ Longitude: 70° 53.460′ Temperature: 12.2 °C (54 °F) Wind chill: 6.2 °C (43 °F) Barometer: 989.6 mBar Relative Humidity: 67.2% We pulled away from the dock this morning, but didn’t go very far

Gain some insight into each team member and listen to some thoughts they shared while at the Kap Hoegh field camp. Taking advantage of a lull between field responsibilities, I interviewed each team member. The same questions were asked of each of them. For this journal, entry one team members