Search

How to define the Arctic? I have found that when I talk about going to the arctic, sometimes people get confused and think that I am going south to the Antarctic, or Antarctica. It is clear that the polar regions, while fascinating, are quite unfamiliar to most people. I am so excited to get the

My name is Camilla Guldager. I’m 20 years old, and I come from Ilulissat (Jakobshavn). I have a little brother and my parents live together back in Ilulissat. My dad’s a carpenter and my mom’s a schoolteacher. I haven’t had the best interest to science since as a kid but now I have a big interest in

The formations we are looking at out here in the Mojave Desert have drawn countless geologists because they tell a story of early Earth. The time periods represented here span from the late Precambrian Era about a billion years ago to the early-mid Cambrian Period, about 500 million years ago. The

We Finally Made It!## When I woke up in the morning I was told that a new C130 was arriving to pick us up. The original C130 was still broken. I got to meet a whole different crew and ate lunch with them at the mess hall. Once we arrived we were transported from the air field to KISS

Today we left Toolik to visit the Prudhoe Bay oilfields. This is about a 3 hour drive up the Dalton highway - the farthest north one can drive in North America. Along the way we saw beautiful landscapes, lots of waterfowl, caribou, and the industrial oil center of Prudhoe Bay. This is where the

My name is Hilda Carrera Figueroa, and I am a teacher of biology and chemistry. I live in Punta Arenas, the most southern city in the world, located in the south of my country, Chile. Since childhood I have been interested in science. Because of my father’s job, I had the opportunity of living in a

Last night the weather came in with a vengeance and the snow piled up rapidly. We were happy to finish our day in the field before it got too nasty. After a couple of hours, there was enough snow to make a snowman-or better yet- a snow squirrel ! The next day was a spectacular blue-bird day and an

Bon Voyage## I am leaving for Greenland today! I hope to be able to update you soon on my travels. Tomorrow I fly with the Military to Kangerlussuaq, Greenland.