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Several research groups based at Toolik Field Station are monitoring geochemical markers in the watershed. Groups work cooperatively to travel to research sites and collect water samples. Cold, rainy, foggy weather doesn't keep the researchers inside. We trekked to stream sites in a watershed. Water

It is important to have a plan. You have to have organized yourself to know what your goal is, and how you are going to go about accomplishing it so you don't waste time, energy or money. Planning ahead is the key to efficiency. However, plans change. Weather happens. People get sick. Opportunities

On evenings after work and dinner, we have gone on some great adventures. One night we went to a place called the aufeis (Pronounced auf ice). This is a German word for the ice left from winter where a river freezes, then floods over the frozen area again and again. After continuous freeze and flood

Today we present the five students and their teacher from Roskilde Katedralskole, Denmark. (The bio and photo of Daniel Britze will be added soon.) Hi everybody! My name is Manja Nørrekær Lund, I am eighteen years old and for nearly two years I have attended Roskilde Katedralskole in Denmark. At

Doing Science!# In previous journals I explained how we set up sites. We are studying 3 plants and we have 9 locations (3 cold, 3 medium, and 3 warm) for each with a total of 27. After we find the locations we tag 15 sets of flowers with different colored string to mark treatments. Orange -

Setting up the Arctic Oven## The best team building activity is to set up a camp together!

Among the researchers working at Toolik and the group that shares our lab space is Team Bird from UC Davis. I had the fantastic opportunity to spend a day out in the field with Jesse Krause, Helen Chmura and Michaela McGuigan and help locate nesting White Crowned Sparrows and Lapland Longspurs. This

Today in camp Today we spent the day continuing our set-up of the lab and ensuring that everything was ready to go for field sampling. We cleaned out an air filter, changed a cracked lens in a microscope and figured out the labeling and data collection system for samples. It is extremely

An unusual event happened at Toolik today: a late afternoon thunderstorm. First seen over the Brooks Range, a storm rolled north over the tundra. Many lightning bolts were seen. Thunder was heard loud and clear. The low landscape doesn't buffer the sound. In order for a thunderstorm to form, warm

Most people reading this journal live in a place far removed from a polar area. What we know about the Arctic or Antarctica is based primarily on National Geographic articles, documentary shows, reality TV, or Disney movies. Polar regions are seen as exotic locals, isolated from the rest of the