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Hello everyone! This is my first journal entry on the polartrec website. I'm so excited to have this avenue for communicating with the students at Nooksack Valley MS in Everson, WA (go Pioneers!) along with friends and family while I'm gone on my adventure! It seems like I've been waiting ages for

During the PolarTREC orientation we spent a day on survival training. Our instructor was named Tuck Brouhard from LTR Training systems. The class was called "learn to return”. In the survival class we were shown many ugly pictures of people with frostbite and badly broken bones. The idea was to make

Preparing for the Plunge Aviation safety training continued. A second instructor joined super safety teacher Vince Welbaum for the practical or hands-on test today. The scientists, research assistants, and my four new Eskimo friends from 30 miles north of the Arctic Circle all absorbed the ‘ditching

In the morning Ms. Jones, Cathy and I caught the schools bus and rode into school. At 10:00 Cathy talked to the students about her work on the ice. I also presented, talking about Hartford High and the kinds of activities that we do there. I also showed the PolarTREC website and invited the students

When I flew up to Fairbanks for my training last week, I had a stop in Anchorage. The flight was late and needed to make up time, so passengers en route to Fairbanks were told to remain on the plane. I never had a look at what Anchorage’s airport had to offer. Anchorage I saw lots of planes at the

Because I am a joint appointee between PolarTREC and NOAA Teacher at Sea program, I have some NOAA training to take. Some of the animal population survey will be done from flying helicopter transects from the Healy. In a brief telephone conversation I had with Mike Cameron, of the National Marine

3-26-07 My head is spinning like Dorothy and Toto caught in a Kansas tornado. Just a few hours ago I was in Alaska, working in the ARCUS office with new found friends. Any question that came to mind was immediately answered by the phenomenally competent and patient ARCUS staff. Learning things like

3.27 On the way to Fort Yukon We got on a small turboprop Beechcraft 1600 operated by Frontier air for the 30 min flight to Fort Yukon. Fort Yukon doesn't have any roads going to it. The only way in is by airplane or in the summer by boat up the Yukon River. Supplies like oil, gas, cars, food and

PolarTREC is no longer a dream, but is real. Real people, real locations, real teachers, real researchers; have all been uncovered. I am one of the fortunate few, to be going to a polar region this year. There is much to plan and much to prepare for, before I travel to Eastern Greenland, in search

Remember me? The adorable little teddy bear that sent you e-mails from Antarctica back in December? Well I've been invited by a friend of Allan Miller's (Dan Wray from Indiana) from the NASA Network of Educator Astronaut Teachers to join the Spacebound Mojave expedition that will be taking place