| "The Earth is a system. No
part works without the other parts. The parts are all connected." -
Martin Jeffries, Arctic Ice Scientist
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Who is involved? 27 Teachers, 10 Scientists, 6 GLOBE Alumni Students | What we learned Learning about the Earth's sensitive polar regions and the International Polar Year |
The Trip Washington, D.C. => Minneapolis, MN => Anchorage, Alaska => Fairbanks, AK How many hours of travel? 6:00 am to 5:30 pm = 11.5 hours Time difference in Alaska from EST: 4 hours |
 Arriving at Fairbanks International Airport |
 Pike's Landing Waterfront Lodge, Fairbanks, Alaska on the Chena River. |
 The famous peat moss moose greet visitors
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 The front desk - and Moosehead |
 Friends of Moosehead |
 More friends! |
 Lucky Duck dispenses fortunes |
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 A very large piece of Jade (note person sitting over there) |
 You can buy the jade for a mere $110,000 |
 Pike's Landing art |
 Pike's Landing humor |
 End of the day - Aspens golden in the setting sun |
Evening's long shadows - views from my room
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 The Chena River flows past Pike's Landing. In 2003 the Iditarod was moved 300 miles north of it's usual Anchorage starting point, to Fairbanks. The race started here at Pike's. |
 Pike's restaurant has a beautiful view of the Chena river |
 Does Mr. Alena look happy or what! That's a half pound of sirloin and a half pound of king crab in front of him, For the second night in a row! |
 mmmmmmmmmmmm... |
Morning views outside my window....
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....of the languid Chena River
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 Vans pick us up from the Lodge, and soon we are arriving at the Univeristy of Alaska's International Arctic Research Center. Our classroom is on the top floor behind all those windows. |
 We are all happy to be back here again! (The 1st workshop was March, 2007) |
 The view out our classroom windows is spectacular. |
 These vans will take us on field trips this week. |
 The splendid Alaska Mountain Range looms on the horizon.
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 On this clear day you can just see the triple white peaks of Mt. McKinley 200 miles to the south, elev 20,320 ft, the highest point in North America |
 Dr. Elena Sparrow, International Arctic Research Center, Univ of Alaska, greets the participants and welcomes all. |
 Dr. Emmett Wright, Deputy Director of GLOBE explained the new directions for the GLOBE Program. |
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