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We went to Long Lake at the beginning of the day, where we met Dave Watts, a biologist from Penn State, whose group has been working in Greenland for several years. There we got to see one of his experiments, which explores how a one or two degree warming could effect the flora in the area. We then

Part of my attraction to the PolarTrec program is that anything that can survive in polar regions has to be incredibly well adapted to a challenging environment. Plants and animals that can tolerate such extremes could be considered "extremophiles". They thrive or at least survive in the world's

What does it all mean? I've tried to introduce you to Byron's microbial research over the course of my stay at Toolik. I want to take this journal to try and relay what some of his findings have been, and why this should be something that we care about even if we don't all live in the Arctic.

It is nature’s sketch book… From the eroded valleys, the thundering rivers, the endless dunes, and the crystalline pools, Greenland seems to have served as the world’s test lab for all of the structures that allows us to call this planet, Earth. This was my immediate impression upon setting foot on

Tundra Animals Researchers have been studying the water chemistry in northern Alaska for over 20 years. Water is collected along the Sagavanirktok River as it heads north toward Prudhoe Bay and the Arctic Ocean, and lakes in the same watershed. Teams studying effects of Arctic sunlight and

The research will occur in Greenland's vast tundra. The Arctic tundra is a stark landscape where the the soil is permanently frozen. This frozen subsoil is referred to as permafrost. Because of this frozen soil it is very hard for trees to grow, so instead the tundra produces lots of moss and woody

Sandstorms and Sandy Beaches## The pollination project has been gong really well. We have finished the Salix minus some observations which have been delayed due to the weather (I will explain in a bit). We had time to hand pollinate all of the supplemented Salix twice before they started to become