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

Bill Schmoker: "While stopped for a CTD cast a polar bear approached from far out and walked along the Healy about 100 meters away before swimming across an open lead and continuing to patrol into the distance." Aboard the USCGC Healy icebreaker in the Beaufort Sea.Approx. Coordinates: 72.4931, -140.8672

Polar bear (3)
Bill Schmoker: "While stopped for a CTD cast a polar bear approached from far out and walked along the Healy about 100 meters away before swimming across an open lead and continuing to patrol into the distance." Aboard the USCGC Healy icebreaker in the Beaufort Sea.Approx. Coordinates: 72.4931, -140.8672

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Jeff Peneston: "This is the smallest of the five Weddell seals that the team gathered data from on the hike across the sea ice. The largest weighed 318 kg (which is about 700 pounds). They are so peaceful, gentle, and confident of their safety in a world without predators above the sea ice, that they allowed the team to walk right up to them. Each seal would roll on to its back and look up at us as if to say, 'what planet are you from?' Both the seal and Dr. Jonas Tielmann were happy to pose for the camera!" On the sea ice of McMurdo Sound, Antarctica.Credit to read: Photo by Jeff Peneston (PolarTREC 2008/2009), Courtesy of ARCUS

Weddell seal poses with Jonas
Jeff Peneston: "This is the smallest of the five Weddell seals that the team gathered data from on the hike across the sea ice. The largest weighed 318 kg (which is about 700 pounds). They are so peaceful, gentle, and confident of their safety in a world without predators above the sea ice, that they allowed the team to walk right up to them. Each seal would roll on to its back and look up at us as if to say, 'what planet are you from?' Both the seal and Dr. Jonas Tielmann were happy to pose for the camera!" On the sea ice of McMurdo Sound, Antarctica.Credit to read: Photo by Jeff Peneston (PolarTREC 2008/2009), Courtesy of ARCUS

Brandon Strellis and Hannah James walk on the edge of the Greenland Ice Sheet. Kangerlussuaq, Greenland.Credit to read: Photo by Kevin McMahon (PolarTREC 2011), Courtesy of ARCUS

Walking on the edge
Brandon Strellis and Hannah James walk on the edge of the Greenland Ice Sheet. Kangerlussuaq, Greenland.Credit to read: Photo by Kevin McMahon (PolarTREC 2011), Courtesy of ARCUS

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

Featured Albums

PolarTREC 2016 Timothy Dwyer

PolarTREC teacher Timothy Dwyer's expedition to McMurdo Station, Antarctica, from October 1st to December 4th, 2016.

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 George Hademenos

PolarTREC teacher George Hademenos' expedition to McMurdo Station, Antarctica, from October 28th to November 26th, 2017.

PolarTREC 2017 Rebecca Harris

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

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