Last week I went to WHOI and my PolarTREC teacher Gerty Ward tagged along. Our mission was to meet Rick Krishfield, our researcher on the expedition, and to learn more about the BGE Project. Mr K's…
Many of you may know that song by the Police, and you may have thought about finding a long lost note that had been adrift in a bottle for years in the sea. You may have even tossed one overboard…
Here in Durham, NC, it is HOT. 100° hot. Really hot. Don't want to move in daytime hot. Thick, sticky, steamy hot. As we walk our dogs, they prance on the pavement to minimize contact and head…
Have you seen this little fella in my pictures?
My PolarTREC expedition mascot
The lion wearing a DA shirt and a bow tie? He is my school friend and my PolarTREC expedition mascot. Check my…
Last week, Mr. Harger's 5th grade students took a break from learning about health and human development and joined Mrs. Ward on an adventure from her classroom at DA (room 401) to the Beaufort Sea…
I am really lucky to have been selected as a PolarTREC teacher. I am not sure that I can list all the reasons why yet; however, a big one is being able to interact with a special group of people who…
To prepare for my expedition this summer I have been reading two books recommended by my expedition leader Rick Krishfield.
The first is Farthest North by Fridtjof Nansen. (1999: Modern Library;…
Rick Krishfield and Andrey Proshutinsky work at the Woods Hole Institute of Oceanography, or WHOI (pronouced "hooey"). I will be joining them on the Beaufort Gyre Exploration Project on the ice-…
Yesterday I saw "Encounters at the End of the World"
a documentary about McMurdo Station, the NSF science station in Antarctica. It is a movie-must.
Whoa, you say....aren't you going to the Arctic…
To prepare for expedition conditions, the PolarTREC teachers took part in "Learn to Return" training. Tuck Brouhard of LTR Training Systems, Inc. walked us through hypothermia prevention, frostbite…
We had the privilege of visiting the US Army Corps of Engineers Permafrost Research Facility outside Fairbanks yesterday.
Permafrost Research Center, Fairbanks AK
Inside the Permafrost Tunnel,…
Today I saw one of the greatest engineering feats ever: the Trans-Alaskan Pipeline System (TAPS) or, as it is called in the "lower 48", the Alaska pipeline.
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Here in Alaska, it…
