Virtual Base Camp
The TREC Virtual Base Camp is an extension of the TREC Website, developed
for information sharing and interaction among teachers, students,
researchers, and community members interested in arctic science. It
includes:
- detailed information about TREC projects and teams
- photo albums
- teacher's journals
- public message boards
Click here to go to the Virtual Base Camp and learn about the 2004 TREC projects.
Photo Credits: Mike Apfelbaum, Bernd Wagner, and Frank Neissen, part of an international
team studying El'gygytgyn Crater Lake in Siberia, collect water samples for geochemistry.
Photo by Julie Brigham-Grette. Center: Researchers arrive at the Big House, the
main camp and galley building at Summit camp, on top of the Greenland ice sheet.
Photo courtesy of VECO Polar Resources. Right: The U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Healy
began scientific missions in the Arctic in 2001. Photo courtesy of U.S. Coast
Guard.