Questionnaire Section A: Demographic Information

1. (a) Please put a √ in the appropriate box: Gender: Male Female (b) Your age at last birthday: _____ years

2. Please put a √ in appropriate box and complete the information where applicable.

Name of research station(s)/ field site(s)/ vessels & your job title

Date(s) of arrival on Ice (DD/ MM/ YR) Date(s) of departure from Ice (DD/ MM/ YR) Size of the expedition team (No of people) I am a former polar expeditioner who has been deployed to the Ice between October 1988 and March 2008.

For your first deployment to the polar environment:

I am current polar expeditioner who is deployed to the Ice between March 2008 and October 2009.

For your first deployment to the polar environment:

3. For both groups:

a) I have spent approximately ________ weeks on the Ice (or on research vessel in polar environments, if applicable) over the course of ________ deployments.

b) I was last deployed to the Ice (on research vessel in polar environments, if applicable) between ____/______/_______ and ____/______/_______. (day / month / year ) (day / month / year )

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For Sections B-D of the questionnaire, please type your answer below each question. Feel free to write as much or as little as you feel necessary.

Section B: Work, emotions, and social life

Please answer the questions in this section based on your first deployment working and living in Antarctica (or on the research vessel in polar environments, if applicable).

4. Please briefly describe your job on the Ice (or on the research vessel in polar environments, if applicable) (i.e., your general tasks, duties, and responsibilities).

5. Please describe the nature of your emotions during your stay on the Ice (or on the research vessel in polar environments, if applicable). I am specifically interested in the frequency and depth of changes, the tone of the emotions (pleasantness or unpleasantness), and how lightly or strongly you felt emotions.

6. Please briefly describe your social interactions while you were on the Ice (or on the research vessel in polar environments, if applicable). In particular, please address the amount of time spent socialising, types of social activities in which you took part, the number of friends you had, and the depth of relationships. _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________

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Section C: Learning on the Ice (Work, emotion and social life)

The purpose of this section is to describe some of the things you learned without being taught or told by someone else during your first deployment to the Ice (or on the research vessel in polar environments, if applicable).

I would like you to describe six instances in which you learned something about living on the Ice (or on the research vessel in polar environments, if applicable). For each of the THREE categories listed (i.e. task, emotions, and social life), describe TWO learning experiences you had during your first- deployment to Antarctica (or on the research vessel in polar environments, if applicable). In each case, please address the following questions:

i) Circumstances

Under what circumstances did you learn this?

How often did these circumstances arise while you were in Antarctica (or on the research vessel in polar environments, if applicable)?

ii) Process

Please describe the process through which you learned this (e.g., trial-and-error, observation of other people, reflection, talking to others, reading, any other ways)

iii) Behaviours

Were you aware that you had learned something new during the first set of circumstances? If not, when and how did you become aware of it?

iv) Back home and subsequent deployment(s) (if applicable)

Would the way you learned it on the Ice be different than the way you would learn something in that category at home and subsequent deployment(s) (if applicable)? If so, in what way(s) would it differ? Why?

Note:

Write as little or as much as you like. You do not need to fill up the lines under each section but, if you need more room to answer, feel free to insert another page.

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7a. Something I learned about work (1):

Circumstances: _________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________

Process (e.g., trial-and-error, observation of other people, reflection, talking to others, reading, any other ways):

_________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________ Behaviours: _________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________