It's been a busy past couple of weeks at home and school. Long-term substitute, Andy Duling was hired for the six weeks I'm away. We overlapped a couple of days...it's been a nice transition. Turns out Andy worked at Toolik Field Station in Alaska.
http://toolik.alaska.edu/
Toolik is where PolarTREC teachers; Nell Kemp (studying predatory spiders),
http://www.polartrec.com/expeditions/predatory-spiders-in-the-arctic-food-web-2013
Alicia Gillean (studying arctic ground squirrels),
http://www.polartrec.com/expeditions/arctic-ground-squirrel-studies
Holding an arctic ground squirrel in hibernation at the University of Alaska Museum of the Northand Bruce Taterka (studying arctic sunlight and microbial systems)
http://www.polartrec.com/expeditions/arctic-sunlight-and-microbial-interactions
will be headed to starting in May this summer. Check out their journals. Students, faculty and staff at Bellows Free Academy have been asking me all week if I'm excited about heading north. I've responded by saying. "You know, I've been so busy I haven't had time to really think about it." I did catch myself though singing the Alaska State Flag song in the shower the other morning...here's what it sounded like...
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