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These past two weeks, I had the privilege of teaching 25 wonderful Upward Bound students on the University of Wisconsin – River Falls campus. Our theme? Interactions. Interactions of robots with their surroundings, interactions of robots with other robots, and interactions of

When it is a sea spider, of course. Yesterday's benthic ROV dive produced a beautiful array of animals both on the screen and in the collection canisters. One of the highlights were multiple sea spiders (Phylum Arthropoda, Subphylum Chelicerata, Class Pycnogonida). Interestingly, the guts of sea

What is Phenology? According to the National Wildlife Federation, phenology is "the study of how the biological world times natural events". Species will use the predictable changes in temperature, day-length and precipitation to time when to migrate, hibernate, bloom, leaf- out, mate and

The Sun Finally Shines on Healy Until today, the research team has suffered through 48 days of rain since the summer research season began in April. Today, perhaps, just perhaps, my New Mexico karma has brought some sun to stay for a while in this very soggy land. ##What Does CiPEHR stand for

Home I spent a little over five weeks in the field with Mike Loranty, but it feels like we left just last week. Time really does fly when you are having fun. Our days were packed with field work, lab work, good food, great conversations with incredible scientists, and creating new friendships

Street Named for the Stars I will now be living and working just outside the boundary of Denali National Park, just outside of a really small village called Healy. The streets are named for the stars, so I will be living in the heavens! Regulus and Antares will be my home and place of work. I even

Denali As I have travelled through this North Country, I have had a companion (besides my husband). This companion has helped me understand the land and its people more fully and as I have discovered, has helped save this Alaskan wilderness for people like me to enjoy and appreciate. ##Mardy Murie

Less Elusive than Caribou Whether walking across the tundra, or sitting by a lake, binoculars at the ready, we were able to watch the interplay of bird life busy at work in the sub-arctic land. A bald eagle harassed by arctic terns and gulls. Trumpeter Swans maneuvering their five cygnets from one

Tracks and Scat Often you can walk miles (today, we walked 19!) and not see the animals that you wished to spot. But many signs can help you know that the animals passed by. A good book on scat and footprints can help decode who might be sharing the land. ##Hopes of Caribou Today, we found many

Tundra and Eskers Lucky! We met an Alaskan couple who urged us to take the time to travel across the Denali Highway on our way over to Denali National Park. They told us that the landscape, the hiking and the wildlife would rival Denali Park and it would be less sullied by the human footprint. We