Author Archives: Jeff

Thanks to the students of Nespelem Middle School for an excellent Skype conversation this morning. I was really impressed by the depth of some of the questions asked! Thanks also to teacher Sheri Edwards for facilitating and writing a nice … Continue reading →

Last week’s successful sampling efforts have left us with a lot to do this week.  On Monday Dan and I went back out to the ice edge to sample mature first year ice, the final sample in our four part … Continue reading →

  It’s been good frost flower growing weather in McMurdo Sound over the last few days and we benefitted with an excellent collection on Friday.  Heading out with Dan and Jen we got as close to our old sampling site … Continue reading →

I know there are several teachers with classes reading this blog.  We would like to visit a select number of classrooms via Skype (or an alternate media, possibly Vyew) over the next 2-3 weeks to share some of our experiences and to let … Continue reading →

It’s a cold one today at McMurdo, we just past the magic temperature of -40… the point where the Celsius and Fahrenheit temperature scales converge (briefly).  This is the temp without windchill, with the windchill it’s a brisk -59 C … Continue reading →

Yesterday we finally made it out to where we can sample frost flowers, retracing Dan and Ryan’s track from Saturday out to Cape Royds.  We were stopped from reaching the ice edge itself by an abrupt transition from ice over one … Continue reading →

I said it was good to have a Plan C as well.  Sunday’s normally a day off at McMurdo but after breakfast we headed out to check on our not yet complete frost flower pool and to see if we … Continue reading →

  After one day I’d say we’re about a quarter of our way through our execution of plan B.  A crew from McMurdo fleet operations came out and drilled a series of overlapping 4 foot diameter holes in the ice … Continue reading →