Is it really going to happen? One month from today, I will board a plane headed toward Chile, then a boat through the ominous Drake Passage, finally a short 5 or 6 days later I will step foot on…
Alaskan Brown Bear
You ever have one of those days… that are right in your wheelhouse??? Well day 3 of PolarTREC Orientation was just one of those days for me. The day began with a guest lecture by Rick Thoman who is…
Barn in Fairbanks
After living in North Carolina for nearly a quarter of a century, I had forgotten what a winters worth of snow accumulation looks like. Feet and feet worth of the white stuff is what I found in…
I began searching opportunities for high school teachers to go to Antarctica and found PolarTREC. The application process was a little overwhelming, but remembering every journey begins with a…