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A Good Map No car-camper should leave the house without her DeLorme Atlas/Gazetter, one for each state she travels through. The Delorme Atlas gives a girl information about where the federal lands are, (lands where she can car-camp without a permit or fee) as well as info about the forest and

As my expedition nears its end, and I pack to go home, I am reflecting on why Arctic research is so important. We can think about this question from the perspective of human lifestyle, ecosystems, and the interaction between those. ## Starting with Ice Looking at the photo of Greenland's coast

Last Day of School I recently finished my tenth year as a classroom teacher. As always, in preparation for summer maintenance and cleaning, I packed up most of my classroom materials and organized paperwork and activities from the previous year. This year is a little different; however, because I

A Visit to the Glacier We knocked off work early the other day because it was too windy to hand-pollinate flowers. Instead we went to 660, the end of the Kangerlussuaq Road. There we hiked through the newest moraines (the piles of sand, gravel, and rocks that the glacier has pushed up). Then

So What Do You Do When It's Too Cold and Rainy to Trap Insects? You go for a hike, of course! The clouds were so low over the river this morning, that it almost looked like you could reach up and touch them! So we finished our morning's work, collecting insect sticky traps; these had been in

Bee Behavior This project is named for pollinators, but we haven't talked about bees at all. How could that happen? Bees are the least common pollinators in Greenland, but they are also the most effective ones because they carry more pollen than flies or mosquitoes; they can carry thousands of

Life at the Station Hello from the North-East Science Station (NESS) in Cherskiy, Russia. The time here is GMT +11 or 15 hours ahead of New York. The North-East Science Station (NESS) is a year-round base designed for scientific research in the Arctic. It was established in 1977 and is used to

Permafrost: What Is It and Where Do We Find It? Permafrost is soil that is frozen (below 0 degrees Celsius) for two years or more; much of the northern hemisphere permafrost has been frozen for tens of thousands of years. Almost 25% of the land mass of the northern hemisphere consists of