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During my stay at Toolik Team Squirrel has been pretty busy trapping and processing squirrels for our study. We have also spent some time downloading weather and soil temperature data from numerous data loggers placed at each study site. In between the action or while waiting to catch squirrels each

Stories from the Rocks Today, we continued to explore the formations of well-preserved carbonates that tell story after story of what early Earth was like. We visited the Carrara formation, which was deposited after the Snowball Earth events that I mentioned in the last journal. These rocks help

To cut to the chase... we made it! We're here at Toolik!! ##The Dalton Highway/Haul Road We left Fairbanks this morning, and about 9.5 hours later we arrived in Toolik, the end. Just kidding! However that is the idea of the story. The Dalton is the road that heads north. It is pretty impossible

Here is more information on the three flowers we are studying... Salix Glauca (gray leaf willow) - expanding across the Arctic and is making Greenland more "shrubby." Vaccinium Uliginosum (blueberry) - before the berry turns blue they are white and referred to as "that which causes the teeth to be

I'm the Bag Lady## For the past two days (June 13th and 14th) my schedule has been the same. I wake up at 7am to leave camp at 8. We have been eating granola with dried cherries and I found the coffee press to make coffee! At 8:15 we call into KISS to tell them all is well and then we head out

The journey north was not a very tough one, a couple of flights and one day's time to make it from Denver to Fairbanks is not too bad. I can only imagine the trek during the early gold mining and frontier days when Alaska was settled would yield a very different journey. I was able to spend some

Another beautiful, sunny day in the arctic today. Team Squirrel spent the morning at the Atigun River site near the Arctic National Wildlife refuge. There, we downloaded weather station and soil temperature data from permanent data logging probes installed in soil near ground squirrel burrows. This

The Countdown is over! The day has finally neared, I depart tomorrow morning for the Arctic! I have packed, and re-packed my bags, tried to ensure that I have everything I will need over the course of the next few weeks. It's been a process that's for sure, but I haven't been alone. So before I

Bees and Flowers## We woke up at 7am so that we could leave camp around 8:15am which is when we have to call in to KISS on the satellite phone to tell them that we are okay. In return, they give us weather updates. We then left camp to drive to the ice sheet. The goal for the day was to find