Good morning! Today is another overcast day but we are expecting good weather tomorrow. It should be the perfect day for a 6th grade experiment.
When Mike Bergin and Brandon Strellis visited Renfroe…
We are in a good work routine. Every morning, we collect snow samples, check on the air sampling instruments, check to see how much sunlight is reflecting of the snow surface and then head back to…
Good news- the summer storm has passed and the winds are a little lighter today. I thought I would use today’s journal to tell you about some interesting research that is being conducted by a…
You may remember from a previous journal that our old snow lab was collapsing and we were digging a new snow lab. The snow lab is important because it keeps our snow layer samples and the chemicals…
Most of the time, we walk to our satellite camp. It is ½ mile away from the Big House. Today, however, we needed to move some big shipping containers and bring them back to the main camp so we…
Well, I had an amazing evening. After a rough day of dishes and then a quick round of snow golf with Brandon, Quentin, Lance and Hannah, we went to the Science Observation Building to help launch a…
Today, it was my turn to be the “House Mouse”. What is the house mouse? It is the person who helps keep the Big House clean. I spent most of the day doing the breakfast dishes, lunch dishes,…
The weather has been interesting to say the least. At 2:30 p.m., we saw snow flurries that seemed to be falling out of the blue sky.
Do you see the snow flakes falling with the blue sky in the…
We rushed to the Big House around 3:00 because that was when our Fourth of July Barbeque was scheduled to begin. We had been craving hamburgers and hot dogs all morning. When we arrived, a big sign…
Our snow lab is collapsing. Over the last month, the wind has blown snow on top of the old snow lab and the roof is starting to cave in. The snow lab is the underground storage area that Brandon…
Collecting snow layer samples is another job that we do each day. It is a pretty simple process to collect it, but how will we get it home without it melting?
The first step is to dig a hole in…
The view is beautiful as we sample snow each morning. We travel about ½ mile from our satellite camp to get to our sampling location. We gather up our collection jars and load it in a sled. We take…
