The science team aboard the Healy has been incredibly generous in giving me impromptu tutorials in such topics as sea ice composition, melt pond mathematics, ice algae bio-markers and zooplankton reproduction. In return, I had the opportunity to teach a workshop in “Time Lapse Dance” technique. We broke the ice (so to speak) by practicing bumping into each other — an inevitability with the ship’s motion and a quick exercise in Brownian motion. Along the way we enjoyed some shipboard spinning and ended the class by dancing with floating fabric.