Loved the picture of you on the ATV! I didn't realize Point Barrow was disappearing so rapidly due to rising sea levels. I also thought the whale graveyard was really cool; I agree with the dinosaur bone comparison! When you described the soil samples and the bread knife, I thought of our samples at Toolik, as well, it took me awhile getting used to sorting through a pile of mostly roots and calling it soil! Keep up the fun journals! It looks like it's pretty cold weather for sticking your hands into the cold soil!