At Dream Flight Adventures we typically report on daring missions brimming with educational value—all set in a fictional universe. Today, however, we’re celebrating a real-life mission of epic proportions. Mike Penn—a.k.a. Admiral Rigorious—has been selected to join a PolarTREC expedition to Antarctica during the 2018-19 Austral summer.
Mike will be working with a team of scientists from the University of Wisconsin installing and maintaining Automatic Weather Stations all over the continent—sometimes where no human has ever been!
The team extends the AWS (Automatic Weather Station) using the tripod. At South Dome on the Greenland Ice Sheet. Photo by Jim Pottinger (PolarTREC 2011)
Mike will teach his students (and students all over the country) about Antarctica, meteorology, geography and all of the science that he and his team will be doing.
This past week Mike ventured into the bitter cold of Fairbanks, Alaska to begin training for his adventure.
You can follow Mike’s expedition and journals here as they unfold over the course of the year. We’ll post periodic highlights here on our cozy, warm, but not-so-adventurous blog, but be sure to check out Mike’s journals for all the exciting sub-zero details!
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