We have glimpsed moose (Alces alces) a number of times now, but not up close and not for long. They are fast-moving, shy creatures. They don’t necessarily stand around and pose while you get your…
I accompanied **Eva Hulse** and **Greg Korosec** while we went back to the new Stone Age site that Dustin’s surveying team discovered on Monday. Although it was only a few degrees above freezing…
Four large groups of Finnish school children were descending on the Kierikki Stone Age Center and both the Director and the Curator were away. I agreed to help out in the Stone Age Village for a…
Today in keeping with the educational and public outreach mission of PolarTREC I spent the day as a guide at the **Kierikki Stone Age Center** in Yli-Ii.
The fox fur was surprisingly light, warm…
This morning we went on a tour of Stone Age settlements. Three of our leaders, **Eva Hulse** of the State University of New York at Buffalo, **Jennifer Bracewell** of McGill University and **Sam…
It is Sunday, and we have the day off. Also, it is Mother’s Day and in Finland that's a big national holiday. All of the restaurants, stores, museums and other attractions are closed up tight. …
Today we paid a quick visit to one of the many stone age settlements we have found in the woods. With me in the van were Professor Ezra Zubrow, Dr. Eva Hulse, graduate students Dustin Keeler and…
We had our first team meeting on May 8 at the Oulu University main building café. Eighteen students, researchers and teachers from at least six countries were present. Three universities are…
Finnish is unlike any other language you are likely to know. Nearly all of the languages in Europe belong to the Indo-European language family and so are all cousins to each other. They share many…
I’ve been reading the*** Kalevala***, which is called "Finland’s national epic.” It reveals a lot about Finnish culture because it isn’t anything like other epics such as the *Odyssey* or *Beowulf…
PolarTREC teachers are called upon to do a lot of things. Some of us sleep in tents on the ice and shoot polar bears with tranquilizer darts. Some cut up glaciers with chain saws. Plenty have…
