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Jenn Hutchins and Pat McKeown helped Cathy and I gathered our gear and then saw us off at the airport for the 1 am flight to Seattle. I slept on the plane. In Seattle Cathy took advantage of the lay over to nap in the airport. We caught our Seattle to Boston flight and I took advantage of the time

After two wonderful days with Joanna Roth and John Bost, Cathy and I met up with Jenny Hutchins and Pat McKeown who had just come off the ice. We stayed at their place on Coyote Trail and took a couple of days to square away gear and take care of data. Cathy spent time working at UAF (University of

So we had the whole day in Seoul, Korea. Colby and Ben decided that they wanted to hang around the hotel for the day, while Mike and I decided that we would find out from the concierge how to get to downtown Seoul to do some sightseeing. We found out that it was pretty easy - take the hotel shuttle

Did I say it was a trip of 40 hours...turns out to be a little bit longer (depending on where you call "home")!On the morning of Wednesday, August 22, Colby, Ben, Mike and I got up at our usual time of about 6:30 or 7 am. We ate up some of what remained of our food - oatmeal, some milk, dried fruit

I am on a mission. My mission is to enlighten all 150 of my students (plus anyone else who cares to sit down and listen to my stories) about Global Warming. My mission is to plant seeds in my students heads and get them to start thinking about the research being done with Global Warming. My mission

Polar TREC Reflection Five weeks is just long enough to get a taste of life as a researcher/scientist and I feel I had a good sampling but it left me wanting more. I had more energy while in Barrow than I ever do back home even though I was up early and to bed late, feeling like I was trying to get

The first Hawaii Science Standard is all about doing science. Hawaii is big on asking the teachers to change their ivory pali wordspeak into real talk. I give it to my students like this,"I can do science like scientists do!!!" the three exclamation points are very important. Sounds simple, but I

For my last journal from Russia, I thought that I would summarize a bit of my experiences and observations of living in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk for a week at each end of the expedition. Shopping In general, shopping is more tedious in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk than in the United States. One reason has to do

Written on August 10, and submitted after a few days rest. My own warm, fluffy bed with crisp cotton sheets was jumped into last night. Arriving safely after 24 hours of travel, through several time zones, it felt surreal to be home. Slowing moving up the front walkway at 10:30 pm, two things

Well, most of the work that we need to do before we head home for Seattle has been accomplished. Colby, Bre, Matt, Mike, Ben and I have spent the last three days at the Sakhalin Regional Museum counting, cataloging, organizing, sorting, checking, verifying, cleaning, photographing and making