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Join the Polar research team as we use technology to join Dr. Carin Ashjian this summer as she continues her research in the Arctic! I will be posting Dr. Ashjians journal details of this summer's research expeditions. We first caught up with her onboard the icebreaker U.S.C.G.C. Healy and are now

Hoare Bay, Baffin Island - August 13, 2013 Today we continued our journey north alongside the Cumberland Peninsula section of Baffin Island. As we made our way up to the Arctic Circle we started to find polar bears. Between Hoare Bay and Cape Dyer there was some residual sea ice where we found

Aurora - August 12, 2013 The summer solstice occurs around June 21st. Areas north of the Arctic Circle (66.5° N latitude) receive 24 hours of daylight for 60 days. At a latitude close to 62° N in Frobisher Bay the sun dipped below the horizon for a few hours. This was fortuitous because sometime

Ottawa - August 10, 2013 Saturday was a beautiful day in Ottawa. City bicycles were available to rent for $7.00/day. This allowed you to ride around for 1 hour before accruing any additional charges. The trick is to turn in the bicycle within the hour limit, wait 5 minutes and check out a

No issues with flights from Barrow to Chicago -- though I think I hit the ground in Chicago running faster the plane. Rachael and I have had the brief chance to say hello aside from visiting family, friends, and moving our things to Logansport. We aren't "settled" yet, just settling. I imagine it

Join the Polar research team as we use technology to join Dr. Carin Ashjian this summer as she continues her research in the Arctic! I will be posting Dr. Ashjians journal details of this summer's research expeditions. We first caught up with her onboard the icebreaker U.S.C.G.C. Healy and are now

After an outstandingly busy summer once I returned home, I finally have time to sit and read through my journal entries. My initial response is: "wow, I did all that!" Thoughts from Finland tumble back into the forefront of my mind, and I now will attempt to get at least some of them down here. In

A New Kind of Daily Routine Well, I'm back home. After a couple of days of adjusting to the time difference, a few good hours of swimming in the lake with my daughter, some enjoyable sunset strolls through the vegetable garden with my wife, and a late summer feast of elk steaks and potatoes on