Virtual Base Camp
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2013 Expeditions have been posted! Check out the latest and greatest expedition members, locations, and science below.
Welcome to the Virtual Base Camp, the starting point for your exploration of the polar regions with PolarTREC teachers and researchers! PolarTREC expeditions to the Arctic and Antarctic started in 2007 and will continue through 2013. You can use the timeline and map below to explore past, present, and upcoming expeditions.
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Teacher: Ken Williams
Dates:
29 April 2013 - 25 June 2013
Location:
Kahiltna Glacier and Mount Hunter Ice Divide. Denali National Park and Preserve, AK
Teacher: Carol Scott
Dates:
18 May 2013 - 22 June 2013
Location:
Kevo Research Station, Finland
Teacher: Alicia Gillean
Dates:
29 May 2013 - 4 July 2013
Location:
Toolik Field Station, Alaska
Teacher: Paula Dell
Dates:
29 May 2013 - 1 July 2013
Location:
Palmer Station and R/V Laurence M. Gould
Teacher: Bruce Taterka
Dates:
24 June 2013 - 31 July 2013
Location:
Toolik Field Station, Alaska
Teacher: Nell Kemp
Dates:
27 June 2013 - 3 August 2013
Location:
Toolik Field Station, Alaska
Einstein Fellow: Lynn Reed
Dates:
28 June 2013 - 19 July 2013
Location:
Kangerlussauq and Summit Station, Greenland
Teacher: Hollis Yenna
Dates:
14 July 2013 - 27 July 2013
Location:
Barrow, Alaska
Teacher: Andrea Skloss
Dates:
26 July 2013 - 15 August 2013
Location:
USCGC Healy
Teacher: Jamie Esler
Dates:
28 July 2013 - 21 August 2013
Location:
Central Iceland
Teacher: Jill Smith
Dates:
7 August 2013 - 26 August 2013
Location:
Kaktovik, Alaska
Teacher: Obed Fulcar
Dates:
1 November 2013 - 1 February 2014
Location:
South Pole Station
Teacher: Justin Kendhammer
Dates:
1 November 2013 - 15 December 2013
Location:
Wright and Taylor Valleys in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica
Teacher: Yamini Bala
Dates:
1 December 2013 - 6 January 2014
Location:
West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) Divide
Teacher: Glenn Clark
Dates:
25 January 2014 - 12 March 2014
Location:
Totten Glacier and Moscow University Ice Shelf, East Antarctica aboard the R/V Palmer
2013
Teacher: Tom Lane
Dates:
1 April 2013 - 3 May 2013
Location:
Approximately 8 miles off the Parks highway, near Healy, Alaska
Teacher: Mark Buesing
Dates:
1 April 2013 - 18 April 2013
Location:
Kangerlussuaq, Greenland
2012
Teacher: Liz Ratliff
Dates:
1 December 2012 - 28 December 2012
Location:
Amundson-Scott South Pole Station
Associate Professor: Jacquelyn Hams
Dates:
15 November 2012 - 20 December 2012
Location:
Beacon Valley, Quartermain Mountains and McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica
Teacher: Tim Spuck
Dates:
12 November 2012 - 22 December 2012
Location:
South Pole Station and remote field sites on the Antarctic Plateau, Antarctica
Teacher: Brian DuBay
Dates:
4 November 2012 - 27 December 2012
Location:
McMurdo and Mario Zuchelli Station, Antarctica
Teacher: Betty Carvellas
Dates:
26 August 2012 - 16 September 2012
Location:
Bering Strait and Chukchi Sea
Teacher: Lisa Seff
Dates:
19 August 2012 - 13 September 2012
Location:
Barrow, Alaska and R/V Ukpik in the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas
Teacher: Deanna Wheeler
Dates:
3 August 2012 - 25 August 2012
Location:
USCGC Healy, Hanna Shoal, northwest of Barrow, Alaska on the Chukchi Sea
Teacher: Wendy Gorton
Dates:
5 July 2012 - 16 July 2012
Location:
Raven Bluff Base, Alaska
Teacher: Dan Frost
Dates:
5 July 2012 - 15 August 2012
Location:
Svalbard, Norway
Teacher: John Wood
Dates:
5 July 2012 - 20 July 2012
Location:
Approximately 8 miles off the Parks highway, near Healy, Alaska
Teacher: Cristina Solis
Dates:
3 July 2012 - 8 August 2012
Location:
Barrow, Alaska
Teacher: Mark Paricio
Dates:
26 June 2012 - 26 July 2012
Location:
Cherskiy, Siberia
Einstein Fellow: Shelly Hynes
Dates:
25 June 2012 - 27 July 2012
Location:
Greenland
Teacher: Nick LaFave
Dates:
4 June 2012 - 1 August 2012
Location:
Toolik Field Station, Alaska
Teacher: Susan Steiner
Dates:
22 May 2012 - 1 July 2012
Location:
Toolik Field Station
Teacher: Melissa Barker
Dates:
6 May 2012 - 9 June 2012
Location:
Toolik Field Station, Alaska
Teacher: Tim Spuck
Dates:
11 April 2012 - 26 April 2012
Location:
Greenland
Teacher: Amber Lancaster
Dates:
2 March 2012 - 18 April 2012
Location:
North-West Weddell Sea, Antarctica
Teacher: Nell Herrmann
Dates:
7 February 2012 - 12 March 2012
Location:
Palmer Station
Teacher: Alex Eilers
Dates:
5 January 2012 - 21 February 2012
Location:
McMurdo Station
Teacher: Chantelle Rose
Dates:
2 November 2011 - 22 December 2011
Location:
USCGC Healy in the Bering, Chukchi, and Beaufort Seas
2011
Teacher: Mike LeBaron
Dates:
5 November 2012 - 14 December 2012
Location:
McMurdo Station
Teacher: Michelle Brown
Dates:
11 December 2011 - 5 January 2012
Location:
South Pole Station and AGO remote site, Antarctica
Teacher: Michelle Brown
Dates:
6 November 2011 - 12 December 2011
Location:
McMurdo Station
Teacher: Michael League
Dates:
19 August 2011 - 11 November 2011
Location:
McMurdo Station
Teacher: Susy Ellison
Dates:
24 July 2011 - 11 August 2011
Location:
Raven Bluff Site near Kivalina, Alaska
Teacher: Mark Goldner
Dates:
10 July 2011 - 14 August 2011
Location:
Ny Alesund, Svalbard
Teacher: Susy Ellison
Dates:
3 July 2011 - 15 July 2011
Location:
ANWR, Alaska
Teacher: Kevin McMahon
Dates:
27 June 2011 - 25 July 2011
Location:
Summit, Greenland
Teacher: Jim Miller
Dates:
20 June 2011 - 15 August 2011
Location:
Barrow, AK
Teacher: James Pottinger
Dates:
22 May 2011 - 14 June 2011
Location:
Swiss Camp, Greenland
Teacher: Michael Lampert
Dates:
25 April 2011 - 20 May 2011
Location:
Svartisen Subglacial Laboratory, Norway
Teacher: Lollie Garay
Dates:
24 April 2011 - 1 May 2011
Location:
Barrow, Alaska
Teacher: John Wood
Dates:
17 April 2011 - 4 June 2011
Location:
Healy, Alaska
Teacher: Paula Dell
Dates:
9 April 2011 - 12 June 2011
Location:
Palmer Station, R/V Laurence M. Gould
Teacher: Juan Botella
Dates:
8 February 2011 - 25 April 2011
Location:
Icebreaker N.B. Palmer in the Southern Ocean and Drake Passage
2010
Teacher: Brandon Gillette
Dates:
29 January 2011 - 14 February 2011
Location:
McMurdo Station
Teacher: Anne Marie Wotkyns
Dates:
4 December 2010 - 20 January 2011
Location:
Swedish Icebreaker Oden in the Southern Seas
Teacher: Lesley Urasky
Dates:
29 November 2010 - 16 January 2011
Location:
Beardmore Glacier Remote Camps, Antarctica
Researcher: Heidi Roop
Dates:
15 November 2010 - 15 February 2011
Location:
West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) Divide, Antarctica
Teacher: Katey Shirey
Dates:
13 November 2010 - 10 December 2010
Location:
Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, Antarctica
Teacher: Bettina Sander
Dates:
22 September 2010 - 30 December 2010
Location:
McMurdo Station, Antarctica
Teacher: James Pottinger
Dates:
12 August 2010 - 22 August 2010
Location:
Summit, Greenland
Teacher: Joshua Dugat
Dates:
3 August 2010 - 22 August 2010
Location:
Deadhorse, Alaska
Teacher: Bill Schmoker
Dates:
31 July 2010 - 6 September 2010
Location:
USCGC Healy in the Bering, Beaufort, and Chukchi Seas
Teacher: Marti Canipe
Dates:
19 July 2010 - 26 July 2010
Location:
Various Locations, Greenland
Teacher: Keri Rodgers
Dates:
16 July 2010 - 23 August 2010
Location:
Barrow Alaska
Teacher: Karl Horeis
Dates:
13 July 2010 - 5 August 2010
Location:
Raven Bluff Site near Kivalina, Alaska
Teacher: Cheryl Forster
Dates:
5 July 2010 - 17 August 2010
Location:
Isfjord Radio, Svalbard Archipelago, Norway
Teacher: Claude Larson
Dates:
2 July 2010 - 3 August 2010
Location:
Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia
2009
Teacher: Gary Wesche
Dates:
23 November 2009 - 10 January 2010
Location:
West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) Divide, Antarctica
Teacher: Sarah Diers
Dates:
17 November 2009 - 13 January 2010
Location:
Cotton Glacier, Antarctica
Teacher: Casey O’Hara
Dates:
16 November 2009 - 1 January 2010
Location:
South Pole Station, Antarctica
Researcher: Heidi Roop
Dates:
9 November 2009 - 1 February 2010
Location:
West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) Divide, Antarctica
Teacher: Michele Cross
Dates:
29 October 2009 - 18 December 2009
Location:
McMurdo Station, Antarctica
Teacher: Lindsay Knippenberg
Dates:
5 October 2009 - 3 December 2009
Location:
McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica
Teacher: Cristina Galvan
Dates:
23 September 2009 - 1 November 2009
Location:
Coast Guard Ship, Beaufort Sea
Teacher: Barney Peterson
Dates:
21 July 2009 - 13 August 2009
Location:
Southcentral and Southwest Alaska
Teacher: Thomas Harten
Dates:
15 July 2009 - 15 August 2009
Location:
Pribilof Islands, Alaska
Teacher: Mike Rhinard
Dates:
10 July 2009 - 15 August 2009
Location:
Svalbard, Norway
NSF Einstein Fellow: Jennifer Thompson
Dates:
5 July 2009 - 21 July 2009
Location:
Various Locations, Greenland
Teacher: Mark McKay
Dates:
14 June 2009 - 15 July 2009
Location:
R/V Knorr, Bering Sea
K-12 Science Coordinator: Cheri Hamilton
Dates:
22 May 2009 - 8 June 2009
Location:
NEEM Camp, Greenland
Teacher: Michael Wing
Dates:
6 May 2009 - 31 May 2009
Location:
Yli-Ii, Finland
Teacher: Simone Welch
Dates:
31 March 2009 - 12 May 2009
Location:
USCGC Healy, Bering Sea
Teacher: Tim Martin
Dates:
21 March 2009 - 22 April 2009
Location:
Crater Lake El’gygytgyn, Russia
Teacher: Betsy Wilkening
Dates:
15 March 2009 - 3 April 2009
Location:
Barrow, Alaska
Teacher: Deanna Wheeler
Dates:
8 March 2009 - 31 March 2009
Location:
USCGC Healy, Bering Sea
2008
Teacher: Katie Pena
Dates:
10 December 2008 - 10 January 2009
Location:
McMurdo and Casey Stations
Teacher: Jeff Peneston
Dates:
25 November 2008 - 12 January 2009
Location:
Southern Oceans, Antarctica
Teacher: John Wood
Dates:
21 November 2008 - 10 January 2009
Location:
Mount Erebus, Antarctica
Teacher: Cameo Slaybaugh
Dates:
4 November 2008 - 19 December 2008
Location:
McMurdo Station, Antarctica
Associate Professor: Jacquelyn Hams
Dates:
4 November 2008 - 15 December 2008
Location:
Dry Valleys, Antarctica
Teacher: Robin Ellwood
Dates:
13 October 2008 - 25 November 2008
Location:
Dry Valleys, Antarctica
Teacher: Gerty Ward
Dates:
16 July 2008 - 21 August 2008
Location:
Beaufort Sea
Teacher: Frank Kelley
Dates:
9 July 2008 - 16 August 2008
Location:
Barrow, Alaska
Teacher: Misty Nikula
Dates:
9 July 2008 - 1 September 2008
Location:
Kuril Islands, Russia
Teacher: Missy Holzer
Dates:
8 July 2008 - 16 August 2008
Location:
Svalbard, Norway
Teacher: Jillian Worssam
Dates:
30 June 2008 - 2 August 2008
Location:
Bering Sea
Teacher: Catherine Campbell
Dates:
24 June 2008 - 26 July 2008
Location:
Toolik Field Station, Alaska
Teacher: Elizabeth Eubanks
Dates:
10 June 2008 - 18 July 2008
Location:
Barrow, Alaska
Teacher: Craig Beals
Dates:
1 June 2008 - 12 July 2008
Location:
Summit, Greenland
Teacher: Katie Pena
Dates:
12 April 2008 - 27 May 2008
Location:
Drake Passage
Graduate Student: Emily Davenport
Dates:
27 March 2008 - 6 May 2008
Location:
Bering Sea
Teacher: Craig Kasemodel
Dates:
11 March 2008 - 28 March 2008
Location:
Bering Sea
Teacher: Kirk Beckendorf
Dates:
21 December 2007 - 29 January 2008
Location:
Antarctica
Teacher: Elke Bergholz
Dates:
4 December 2007 - 16 January 2008
Location:
South Pole Station
Teacher: Brandon Gillette
Dates:
26 November 2007 - 1 January 2008
Location:
West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS), Antarctica
Teacher: Ann Linsley
Dates:
12 November 2007 - 20 December 2007
Location:
McMurdo Station, Antarctica
2007
Teacher: Lollie Garay
Dates:
24 November 2007 - 11 January 2008
Location:
Icebreaker Oden
Teacher: Mindy Bell
Dates:
30 September 2007 - 18 November 2007
Location:
McMurdo Station, Antarctica
Teacher: Sarah Anderson
Dates:
28 August 2007 - 2 November 2007
Location:
Bellingshausen-Amundsen Sea, Antarctica
Teacher: Peggy Foletta
Dates:
27 July 2007 - 16 August 2007
Location:
Kenai Peninsula, Alaska
Teacher: Matt Moore
Dates:
17 July 2007 - 2 August 2007
Location:
Svalbard, Norway
Teacher: Mary Anne Pella-Donnelly
Dates:
11 July 2007 - 9 August 2007
Location:
Kap Hoegh, Greenland
Teacher: Misty Nikula
Dates:
11 July 2007 - 23 August 2007
Location:
Kuril Islands, Russia
Teacher: Rob Wilder
Dates:
31 May 2007 - 7 July 2007
Location:
Barrow, Alaska
Project Manager: Janet Warburton
Dates:
24 May 2007 - 30 May 2007
Location:
Bering Sea
Teacher: Jo Dodds
Dates:
13 May 2007 - 9 June 2007
Location:
Summit, Greenland
Teacher: Maggie Prevenas
Dates:
7 April 2007 - 14 May 2007
Location:
Bering Sea
Teacher: Robert Harris
Dates:
21 March 2007 - 18 April 2007
Location:
SEDNA Ice Camp
Teacher: Ute Kaden
Dates:
12 December 2006 - 28 December 2006
Location:
Icebreaker Oden
Location:
Toolik Field Station
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