Thoughts, images, wonderings, quests
with the International Arctic Buoy Programme
with the International Arctic Buoy Programme
We're Back On!![]() Back to the logistics planning table and white boards to capture all the details... yet we are still working from zoom and google drive, no real tables or dry erase markers yet. A couple weeks ago the National Science Foundation loosened the quarantine requirements for NSF funded scientists deploying to Utqiaġvik, Alaska. Upon the announcement, almost immediately my team came together via pixels on the screen to talk through eight pages of pre-field logistics. There are six people working on all the details of me traveling and contributing to the work of the International Arctic Buoy Programme. I have never had such an entourage of personal assistants to help make an adventure come to fruition. Well, they are not exactly personal assistants, more so they are experts in Arctic science, travel and expeditions, education and outreach, cold-weather gear, and day-to-day up north living. It is an incredible gift and opportunity to get to be in this position as a PolarTREC educator. Headed into the field is standard vernacular for outdoor science observing and data collection and typically is very desirable work time for scientists. Yet, I want to use alternative vocabulary of headed out on the ice. Instead of fieldwork, we should be calling it 'sea ice work' as the observations and data collection all happens on the sea ice or directly in contact with the Arctic Ocean water. Ways to Be Part of This Expedition
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