Polar Date: July 10, 2008
After a night of rain, the day continued the trend with rain all day. When it rains here it really rains hard for a while, then lets up to a drizzle then rains hard again,…
Polar Date: July 9, 2008
When will the sun go down? It’s no secret that Alaska is known as the Land of the Midnight Sun. It should be known as the Land of All Sun All the Time. Last night I…
Soil cores are processed in order to determine the amount of nitrogen, carbon and phosphorus available to plants. The samples in this video were obtained on July 6, 2008 from a June, 2004 tundra-burn…
Polar Date July 8, 2008
Soil Extraction Day Has Arrived! Yes, this day will be etched in my Toolik experience memory. It was the final step for the soil that had been taken from the burn site on…
Polar Date July 7, 2008
Lab 2 team had a day off since we had worked on Sunday. Everyone did their own thing, some went on a long, long hike into the Brooks Range, some did laundry, some got caught…
Polar Date July 6, 2008
Another beautiful day arrived – I can’t say "dawned” because the sun never sets. It was, however shining intensely and the tent was hot. The plan for the day was to gather…
Polar Date July 5, 2008
What a day! This journal is just going to have to speak through pictures. I’ll preface it by saying that I rode in the helicopter twice to the 2004 remote burn site and…
Polar Date July 4,2008
How does a remote science field camp celebrate a major holiday? In the same fashion as most cities, towns and villages, with special food, a parade and some fireworks. The…
Polar Date July 4, 2008
Independence Day at Toolik Lake began as a normal workday with people up and in the labs or fields or lakes on schedule, which means, early. The weather stayed bright and…
Polar Date July 3, 2008
Hurray – the weather cleared up. Toolik Lake was bathed in abundant sunshine after a few days of complete overcast. It’s silly to expect the weather to be beautiful…
Polar Date July 2, 2008
Today the weather was not with us. The skies were completely overcast and reached down to the mountaintops and into the passes. Due to those bad conditions, the helicopter…
Polar Date July 1, 2008
Back on the boardwalks counting flowers. In this case we were counting Carex bigelowii. This time Elise was counting the west-side of the plots and Matt was counting the…
