Newfoundland is like Norway – just colder, wilder and friendlier. My destination, Conception Bay South just outside St. Johns, is pretty much as far east one can go on the American continent. And seriously, the names of the places in Newfoundland is in itself good enough reason to go there. I do not understand how […]

The Great Lakes that is. I met with Joe Hoyt, the 2004 North American Rolex Scholar, in Richmond, Virginia – ready for the 18 hour drive up to Alpena, Michigan. It is intriguing how fast one get to know each other when you are stuck in a car, and even though it was a loooong […]

Leaving Saba was hard. I got all sentimental on the plane to St. Maarten, and when Jo & Frank was waving their goodbyes as the plane left the runway tears came pouring down my face. I honestly think one of the hardest parts of this Scholarship is that every place you visit, you stay there […]

The project I am participating in at the moment is exactly that – the mapping of the intact, wooden shipwreck of Montana and the production of live webcasts from the site. Tune in: July 14 at 10am, 12:30pm, and 3pm EST at www.immersionlearning.org (Norwegian time 4pm, 6.30pm and 9pm) The audience will learn how marine archaeologists […]

Saba might very well be the friendliest place I have ever encountered. In order to get from Sint Maarten to Saba, I had to take a really small airplane (the airstripe at Saba is the shortest commercial runway in the world), and all us 15 passengers cramped ourselves together in the plane and prepared ourselves […]