Embracing Change

As a child, I dreamed of being a polar explorer—born a century too late, I turned instead to science, where every experiment offered a glimpse of discovery. The thrill of making something that had never existed felt like walking toward unexplored horizons.

Science brought me from France to the United States, where a one-year sabbatical became a thirty-year career in academia. Over time, the changing landscape of research forced me to confront a simple truth: the frontier that once inspired me in the lab was shifting elsewhere.

Leaving institutional science created space to return to my first dream—to explore the literal and inner frontiers of a changing world. Ice Frontiers began as an attempt to understand how we live with transformation: in the climate, in society, and in ourselves.

Through letters, essays, and field notes, I chronicle a personal voyage from the structured world of science to the unpredictable frontier of polar seas and glaciers. Each dispatch reflects on growth, understanding, and belonging in a time when our aging planet feels smaller every day.

What began as a personal search has become a shared reflection on how we define progress. Ice Frontiers invites readers to join this voyage—to seek a form of growth rooted in awareness, presence, and restraint.

As Ice Frontiers matures, the personal journey is becoming a collective pilgrimage. I am assembling a small crew of like-minded people I have not yet met. Some may sail toward Greenland with me and begin the first chapter of a multi-year Arctic exploration program. Some may contribute creative skills to this site. Others may choose to support the project financially.

Ice Frontiers is growing beyond my own transformation. It now belongs to a community of people drawn to the Frontier—to exploration as a form of self-discovery, and to the shared work of navigating change together.