Image Credit: Dale Andersen

Want to participate in some field work in an extreme and remote environment?

Join Dale for two weeks in the Canadian Arctic – 600 miles from the North Pole. You’ll get to investigate high latitude lakes, perennial springs, glaciers, and other
periglacial features such as pingos. Taking samples and making in situ measurements will make up the bulk of the work, and there’s some chance you’ll have to dive under ice.

Dale makes no bones about it: accommodations will be spartan, and the temperatures might hit minus forty. But this is truly cutting edge research on the top of the world. If you can handle hiking over tundra and glacier, sleeping in bags and tents, and shrugging off snow, sleet, rain and cold, this could be the experience of a lifetime.

No life is too extreme, and no environment too remote, for Dale Andersen. Dale has spent more than two dozen years investigating the microbes that inhabit such truly trying locales as the polar regions, Chile’s Atacama Desert, Death Valley, alpine lakes in British Columbia, and Siberia.

His time in the Antarctic easily trumps that of Ernest Shackleton. Dale led and participated in ten expeditions to the southern continent, and each one of these forays lasted up to a half-year. He’s been to the arctic over twenty times. His work drove him to create the award-winning PBS documentary, "Life on Ice, Antarctica and Mars", and the three-part PBS program "Live! From Other Worlds".

It takes a tough guy to research the toughest of environments – where perennial ice and permafrost make it hard for life to survive. But the extremophiles that live in these brutal environments are prototypes for life that might exist on other worlds. Dale is searching for aliens on Earth.

Check out Dale Andersen's website.

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