Moving Targets
Just as a warning, I like maps. A LOT. When my team mentioned that they were plotting the Automatic Weather Station (AWS) on the moving ice sheet, I thought to myself "That sounds…
In a little more than two months, I’ll be getting on an airplane to go
to Antarctica. It is beginning to seem more real every day, especially
after having spent the last week with the AWS research…
I just returned from the 13th Workshop on Antarctic Meteorology and Climate at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, Wisconsin from July 16-19. People from 12 countries (South Africa, Australia,…
This is a note to my doctors about why I’m getting these tests and the conditions that scientists on the Antarctic have to be physically capable of enduring.
The end of school was just days ago…
Mike Penn considering a beard.
UPDATE
Here are a few pictures of the beard in Antarctica. You can tell how cold it is by how frozen my beard is!
2018 PolarTREC Teacher Mike Penn with a full…
This is the ad that legend says Ernest Shackleton set in 1913 looking for volunteers for his expedition to be the first to cross the antarctic continent.
Legend has it that Ernest Shackleton set…
In order to run a marathon, you would expect to run to practice otherwise you won’t be able to run the whole 26.2 miles. You would expect a doctor to have learned what to do before operating on…
WHO ARE THESE PEOPLE?
Today, I met some really interesting people: a body building champion, someone who saved a walrus' life, someone who named their children after assassinated presidents, someone…
