Jeff Peneston can walk or snowshoe out his back door into the forest and lakes of Camp Talooli, a children’s camp that he has helped his wife direct for 24 years. Each school day he leaves his forested home to teach Earth Science at Liverpool High School, just North of Syracuse, New York. Mr. Peneston has been teaching for 22 years and his passion has been to find ways to bring his students out into the natural world where they can learn to solve authentic problems. In 2000 he helped create the Expedition Earth Science program and each year he leads groups of students to locations around Upstate New York where they can act as field scientists for a day or a weekend. Mr. Peneston believes what one of his students once told him, “Real science begins where the classroom ends!” Mr. Peneston will be joining a team of international scientists on the Oden icebreaker. Check out Jeff's classroom website at http://fc.liverpool.k12.ny.us/~peneston/.

Mr. Peneston will board the Oden icebreaker in Punta Arenas, Chile, the southernmost city in South America and then travel across the southern Pacific Ocean to McMurdo Station, Antarctica, the largest research station in Antarctica.