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Blueberry Plants Our main activity this week involves the plant-pollinator experiment for which our research is named. Christine's focus plant is Vaccinium uliginosum, the blueberry plant that I showed in an earlier journal; I'll put it in here too. The leaves are typically about 1cm long and the

This one is for all the students that have brought up Santa on my journey to the Arctic. The North Pole does exist, and its here in Alaska. Even the street names were all Christmas themed in this town like St. Nicolas Dr and Santa Claus Lane in this little town. We visited Santa Claus' house and saw

Scientists at KISS ### Traversing the Ice Sheet Such interesting people we have met! Dr. Erich Osterberg of Dartmouth College gave a talk on his recently concluded traverse across the ice sheet. He and his team of five traveled from Camp Raven to Summit, the highest point on the ice sheet, a

Final Lesson of the Year - PolarTREC The month of June usually entails locker clean-outs, final exams, award and graduation ceremonies and other activities meant to wrap up a successful school year. While I am ready to close the book on my tenth year as a classroom teacher, I couldn't send my

Final details Just a few days left before we head out on our departure and I find myself packing and re-packing to make sure that I am well prepared for a month of field work in the Arctic. We will be spending the majority of our days outside collecting data so I am packing plenty of non-cotton

Biome Do you remember what a biome is? It is region of the world that is characterized by its climate as well as its plants and animals. When you look at a map of Greenland, you can see that almost all of Greenland is covered by ice. As you might expect, very few organisms live out on the