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Intro to the Study: Cost of a New Fur Coat * Ms. Church’s 5th grade classes at Crosswind Elementary * Ms. Kumbroch’s 1st grade class at Crosswind Elementary * Mrs. Payant of Crosswind Elementary * Crosswind Students: * Emlynn Ford in Kindergarten * Chloe Balkcom in 4th grade * A Crosswind Student

We're out here studying the microbes that live on the bottom of the lake, which is covered with a layer of ice that is between 4-5 meters thick. We spend so much of our time drilling that I thought you'd like to see what the process is like. You can read more about why we are interested in these

Meet McMurdo: Albert P. Crary Science Center ### Albert P. Crary Science Center, my home away from home! When we’re not out on the ‘ice’, the Albert P. Crary Science Center (Crary Lab for short) is likely where you will find the rest of the team and me, busy at work. The support staff here call

Preparing to work with seals… …is no quick and easy task! So, what have we been up to over the past couple of days? We've been busy unpacking, setting up the lab, packing for our daily excursions and taking classes – safety first. Since a pictures worth a thousand words, I thought I’d let the

Today seems to mark a bit of a transition for us. Until now, every day has been devoted to drilling holes in the ice and looking for the range of the webbed, pinnacled mats using drop cameras. We will continue to drill holes in the lake, but today we began to get ready for diving. Now we are in the

Postcards are heading north! Postcards here, postcards there, postcards everywhere! Over 3,500 postcards (and over 250 flags) were shipped to Antarctica on September 15, and they arrived before I did. So, after carefully unpacking the box, I’m taking all of the postcards to the U.S. Post Office

In general, my options for communicating from Lake Joyce are rather limited. However, tomorrow we have a helicopter stopping by, so I’m going to give them a flash drive with this short movie on it. (I almost feel like it's sort of a carrier pigeon). The good people at the Crary Lab at McMurdo

Meet Amy Kirkham Amy is a graduate student at the University of Alaska, Anchorage who is originally from Larchmont, New York! She received her bachelor’s degree from Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, before continuing her education in Alaska! ### What’s after graduate school? I want

Learning a New Language: Weddell Seal Lingo! Our research team has their own lingo! Out on the ice, the scientists use a lot of words and terms that I never use back home! I’m getting used to it now, but for those of you who didn’t follow my last Antarctic adventure, here’s a little help! **Haul

Our big question How do sediments influence the morphology, or shape, of the webbed microbial mats? Ancient fossil mats are similar to these modern examples in Lake Joyce, and our observations will improve interpretations of the relationship between ancient mats and the environment where they