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A seal pup goes up to the dive hole for air. Turtle Rock, Antarctica.Credit to read: Photo by Robin Ellwood (PolarTREC 2008), Courtesy of ARCUS

Mother seal and pup (1)
A seal pup goes up to the dive hole for air. Turtle Rock, Antarctica.Credit to read: Photo by Robin Ellwood (PolarTREC 2008), Courtesy of ARCUS

A seismic image of the ocean floor in the Drake Passage. Aboard the Nathaniel B. Palmer in the Drake Passage in the South Atlantic Ocean.Coordinates: -59.14955, -41.47595Credit to read: Photo by Katie Pena (PolarTREC 2008/2009), Courtesy of ARCUS

Seismic image of the ocean floor
A seismic image of the ocean floor in the Drake Passage. Aboard the Nathaniel B. Palmer in the Drake Passage in the South Atlantic Ocean.Coordinates: -59.14955, -41.47595Credit to read: Photo by Katie Pena (PolarTREC 2008/2009), Courtesy of ARCUS

Cristina Galvan: "The female polar bear cub is very healthy looking." On the sea ice, near the USCGC Polar Sea icebreaker in the Beaufort Sea.Approx. Coordinates: 77.3683, -167.0848

Polar bear cub
Cristina Galvan: "The female polar bear cub is very healthy looking." On the sea ice, near the USCGC Polar Sea icebreaker in the Beaufort Sea.Approx. Coordinates: 77.3683, -167.0848

Leaning ice sculpture
Frank Kelley: "I can't stop checking out the iceberg sculptures, so many great shapes and designs." Barrow, Alaska.

Ana Aguilar-Islas tempts fate as she gets samples of sea water to test for iron at the sea ice edge. Looking out onto the sea ice, from the bridge of the USCGC Healy icebreaker, on the Bering Sea.

Ana on the edge
Ana Aguilar-Islas tempts fate as she gets samples of sea water to test for iron at the sea ice edge. Looking out onto the sea ice, from the bridge of the USCGC Healy icebreaker, on the Bering Sea.

Caribou in the snow
John Wood: "We came across four caribou during a light snow." Healy, Alaska.

Darrell Kaufman and Heidi Roop examine a split core for marker beds that can help identify known climate events in the history of the lake and help them establish dating for more recent events. Cascade Lake, Alaska.Credit to read: Photo by Barney Peterson (PolarTREC 2009), Courtesy of ARCUS

Marker beds
Darrell Kaufman and Heidi Roop examine a split core for marker beds that can help identify known climate events in the history of the lake and help them establish dating for more recent events. Cascade Lake, Alaska.Credit to read: Photo by Barney Peterson (PolarTREC 2009), Courtesy of ARCUS

Rob Eubanks, Steve, and Denver Holt are evaluating the lemmings. Lemming data is an important tool that Denver uses to evaluate the mating pairs of owls. How many lemmings are around the nest is an one of the important facts that are recorded. Barrow, Alaska.Credit to read: Photo by Elizabeth Eubanks (PolarTREC 2008), Courtesy of ARCUS

Lemming data
Rob Eubanks, Steve, and Denver Holt are evaluating the lemmings. Lemming data is an important tool that Denver uses to evaluate the mating pairs of owls. How many lemmings are around the nest is an one of the important facts that are recorded. Barrow, Alaska.Credit to read: Photo by Elizabeth Eubanks (PolarTREC 2008), Courtesy of ARCUS

An Adélie penguin on the McMurdo Ice Runway at McMurdo Station, Antarctica.Credit to read: Photo by Gary Wesche (PolarTREC 2009/2010), Courtesy of ARCUS

Adélie penguin with LC-130 (2)
An Adélie penguin on the McMurdo Ice Runway at McMurdo Station, Antarctica.Credit to read: Photo by Gary Wesche (PolarTREC 2009/2010), Courtesy of ARCUS

Dr. Matthew Sturm gave a tour of the CRREL Permafrost Tunnel to the PolarTREC teachers, explaining the science behind permafrost. Fox, Alaska.

Permafrost Tunnel tour
Dr. Matthew Sturm gave a tour of the CRREL Permafrost Tunnel to the PolarTREC teachers, explaining the science behind permafrost. Fox, Alaska.

This is a view looking down into the hole drilled for the IceCube strings. The sphere you see is a digital optical module about 17 meters down. The entire hole is about 2.5 kilometers (about 1.5 miles) deep. It goes about 50 meters before it is filled with ice-cold water for the remaining 2,400 meters. The water eventually freezes around the string of DOMs, sealing them in forever. Near the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, Antarctica.Credit to read: Photo by Casey O'Hara (PolarTREC 2009/2010), Courtesy of ARCUS

Looking down the rabbit hole
This is a view looking down into the hole drilled for the IceCube strings. The sphere you see is a digital optical module about 17 meters down. The entire hole is about 2.5 kilometers (about 1.5 miles) deep. It goes about 50 meters before it is filled with ice-cold water for the remaining 2,400 meters. The water eventually freezes around the string of DOMs, sealing them in forever. Near the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, Antarctica.Credit to read: Photo by Casey O'Hara (PolarTREC 2009/2010), Courtesy of ARCUS

Blanket toss flip
A man does an impressive flip on the blanket toss at the site of Nalukataq in Barrow, Alaska.

Allen Marquette (74)
Allen Marquette speaks to students at Challis Elementary in Challis, Idaho.

An aerial view
An aerial view of the USCGC Healy icebreaker, on the Bering Sea, from the helicopter.

Karl Horeis: "We flew by this valley on our way back to camp. It's not far from where we have been excavating. In fact, we can see the other side of these gray peaks from Raven Bluff. Something about these landscapes makes me imagine lumbering mammoth and skin-clad ancient hunters." Somewhere between Raven Bluff and the Chukchi Sea (between Kivalina and Point Hope), Alaska.Credit to read: Photo by Karl Horeis (PolarTREC 2010), Courtesy of ARCUS

Sweeping valley
Karl Horeis: "We flew by this valley on our way back to camp. It's not far from where we have been excavating. In fact, we can see the other side of these gray peaks from Raven Bluff. Something about these landscapes makes me imagine lumbering mammoth and skin-clad ancient hunters." Somewhere between Raven Bluff and the Chukchi Sea (between Kivalina and Point Hope), Alaska.Credit to read: Photo by Karl Horeis (PolarTREC 2010), Courtesy of ARCUS

Michael Wing: "The dark band is about an inch of organic matter on the top - then comes almost pure beach sand. Leached iron oxide stains the lower portion reddish brown." At the excavation site near Yli-Ii, Finland.Credit to read: Photo by Michael Wing (PolarTREC 2009), Courtesy of ARCUS

Soil core
Michael Wing: "The dark band is about an inch of organic matter on the top - then comes almost pure beach sand. Leached iron oxide stains the lower portion reddish brown." At the excavation site near Yli-Ii, Finland.Credit to read: Photo by Michael Wing (PolarTREC 2009), Courtesy of ARCUS

Featured Albums

PolarTREC 2017 Dave Jones

PolarTREC teacher Dave Jones' expedition aboard the CCGS Louis S. St-Laurent in the Beaufort Sea, from September 4th to October 5th, 2017.

PolarTREC 2017 Rebecca Harris

PolarTREC teacher Rebecca Harris' expedition to Lake Peters, Alaska, from July 30th to August 27th, 2017.

PolarTREC 2017 Ruth Rodriguez

PolarTREC teacher Ruth Rodriguez's expedition to Utqiaġvik, Alaska, from July 25th to August 10th, 2017.

PolarTREC 2017 Steve Kirsche

PolarTREC teacher Steve Kirsche's expedition to Summit Station, Greenland, from June 1st to 30th, 2017.

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