Humpback Whale
Glacier and Wildlife Watching Cruise - Seward Alaska Looking out of Seward Harbor toward the Pacific Ocean My second adventure in Seward was a morning glacier and wildlife watching cruise. The…
Puffin
Alaska SeaLife Center - Seward, Alaska Horned Puffin at the Alaska SeaLife Center in Seward, Alaska. My first stop in Seward was the Alaska SeaLife Center. A friend used to work at the Center and…
Flowers
Denali Science and Visitor Centers Denali has a great visitor center as well as a science center. The science center focuses on research that has been done or is currently being done inside the…
Denali Park
Wilderness Tour While in Denali I decided to take a 6-hour wilderness shuttle bus tour to the Toklat Station over 53 miles into the park. The school bus driver acted as our tour guide and was very…
Helicopter Tour
Denali National Park & Preserve Helicopter Tour The other day I flew to Fairbanks, rented a car and drove to Denali National Park and Preserve. The drive was only about 2.5 hours long and…
Hi there! I am currently in Denali touring and the internet connection here is terrible! I will be posting a journal tomorrow when I get back to Barrow, so check back on Monday!
Mosquito Net
Blood Suckers!!! Yesterday, I spent 15 hours on the tundra collecting data. The day started with the machine not working after I lugged it all the way out to the Old Basin. Unfortunately, I couldn…
Beluga Whale
Beluga Whale Beluga Whale - Courtesy of Discovery.com Yesterday, we received a call telling us that some fisherman had caught a beluga whale. I guess this is a pretty rare occasion (maybe one…
Momma on Nest
Sorry for the delay in the journal. I spent Monday and Tuesday, both 11 hour days, on the tundra collecting data. I got a lot of reading done and for the 1 set of data I could sit inside and watch…
Bowhead Whale
Inupiat Heritage Museum Yesterday on our day off we decided to go through the exhibits at the Inupiat Heritage Center. The Inupiat Heritage Center is a testament to the history and lives of the…
Point Barrow
Sleeping in = GREAT!! Today I had a day off from everything!! It was great being able to sleep in!! Point Barrow, the northern-most tip in the U.S. Since I had the day off, I decided to go…
BEO Site
Sorry!!! Sorry for the delay in the journals...the internet system crashed last night as I was just about to enter my journal. Seriously! Data collection site at the Barrow Environmental…