The Purpose

While I am here in the Arctic, I will study at the University Center on Svalbard (UNIS) and take a field course in glaciology (AG 325). I will receive this training and return to the US to train other teachers and students that participate in Spaceward Bound, an educational program in planetary science and field work managed at NASA Ames Research Center...

...and of course: experience of life in Earth's northernmost town with over 1000 inhabitants!