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After recieving a few concerning emails, I figured this a good time to address the recent severe weather outbreak over Kansas and Oklahoma. As most of you have heard, the first ever EF5 twister struck Greensburg, a small town in south-central Kansas on Friday, May 4. 95% of the buildings in town

Saturday, May 5th- a day of celebration on the ship, for more than one reason. First, it was Cinco de Mayo! This is always a cause for celebration, and it was an especially important day because the science party was in charge of cooking dinner for the entire ship. However, before the festivities

Saturday May 5, started off ordinary, as ordinary as a Saturday on an icebreaker in the middle of the Bering Sea can be. I was lingering over lunch with Gavin Brady and Dr. Michael Cameron, two members of the NOAA NMML ice seal team. They were telling leopard seal stories and fun factoids about

Monday April 30, 2007 The ice is here so ice observations take place every two hours. I had a feeling today was going to be a wildlife bonanza and it was. We saw lots of ribbon and spotted seals and birds. As always the time up in the bridge turned into hours. *I learned how to filter seawater

Cinco de Mayo!!! That meant for all of the science party that we were responsible for the Saturday night dinner for the entire ship. Naturally, we chose a menu with Mexican flair. Never before had any of us had to cook for over 140 people and organize the entire thing. Scott Hiller and Janet

I have watched a lot of science happen these past three weeks. I have asked a lot of questions and taken a lot of pictures. See I needed to understand what was happening here in the middle of the Bering Sea. And I need to know it so well that I can go back home and tell my students all about it.

Do you like playing with fire? What about watching things burn? If you answered yes to at least one of these questions then you are automatically on burn duty. That’s pretty much how the first two were recruited. A.J. LeFevre and Rob Freyer were the original trash burners of the science party. Of

If you or someone you know is at all interested in science, share PolarTREC information with them. A major part of this program is education outreach. The more people that know about this, the more people will follow. That is a good thing.! If we can get just one student or one member of the

I stuffed the cups with some sturdy brown paper towels to keep them separate and then placed them in a mesh laundry bag. Here is Claire’s cup before we sent it down. The Marine Scientist Technicans (MSTs) connected them to the CDT sampler that was dropped below 3300 meters! *I took this picture of

Today was our third LIVE from IPY event while on the Healy. All of us were a little nervous because we had asked Captain Lindstrom to join us and talk a little about the Coast Guards. We also had asked our principal investigator, Raymond Sambrotto, to speak about the research he was doing on the