While Bonita LeBlanc, a 16 year old student from Cole Harbour, Nova Scotia Canada, has been helping out with Arctic research for the past two years, the teen has never herself been to the Arctic. Well, that is about to change.

For the past couple of years, LeBlanc has been helping Arctic researchers track ocean currents by sending bottles with messages in them to the Arctic. This week she is heading to the North and will be dropping a few bottles into the Arctic sea herself. more »