Community member, Master Sergeant Chris Rickert travels to Antarctica every year as an Air Operations Technician in the New York Air National Guard. This year he communicated from  the South Pole via email with three classes in East Greenbush: Ms Akard's class at Goff, Ms O'Brian's class at DPS and Ms Sage-Pulver's class at Genet.

Upon his return, Master Sergeant Rickert visited the classes and showed them photographs, maps and equipment and answered questions.

Here are some Antarctica links for background information.

• The National Science Foundation Office of Polar Programs.
  This is who the New York Air National Guard works for on the ice.

• The Gulf of Maine Aquarium has a site on Antarctica

• McMurdo Station site

• Virtual Tour of the McMurdo Station from the University of Chicago

• Understanding Antarctica, an educational site published by the Australian government.

• An Antarctica resource site prepared by our Teacher Center