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Dr. John Trefry (Florida Institute of Technology) and his group are studying trace metals in the Chukchi Sea. This sea has many trace metals including arsenic (As), cadmium (Cd), mercury (Hg), and methyl mercury (MeHg), yet the concentrations are low and ephemeral. The levels noted in the Chukchi

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 catch up with her onboard the icebreaker U.S.C.G.C. Healy and then will

Arctic Invertebrates Dr. Brenda Konar's group (University of Alaska Fairbanks) has been studying the animals on the arctic seafloor particularly around Hanna Shoal for a number of years. They are documenting the biomass, abundance, and the species taxonomic richness. In essence they are

TODAY'S JOURNAL: Greenland is known as a pretty harsh place, end even during our mid-summer visit it was evident that life clinging to the margin of land seaward of the ice shelf has very special adaptations to survive in the Arctic environment. Exposed rock was very common, sometimes with

Answer The fat worm in yesterday's journal is a peanut worm. It is not a worm, but a sipunculid. ##Walrus ##Nature's Ice Sculptures

I just returned home from a weeklong PolarTREC workshop in Monterey, California. We worked with scientists, engineers and other teachers to create Remote-Operated Vehicles (ROVs). The setting was absolutely wonderful at MBARI (Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute). Our workroom overlooked the

Day 2 Begins with Base Camp Refugees Late last night on August 2nd, the already high winds and cold temperatures both intensified. Winds increased to an approximate 50mph and temperatures dropped with the associated wind chill. We have already had two tent failures amongst the group, and have

Heading Out For Day 1 of Data Collection We began the morning with an excellent breakfast that Sandy had prepared for us. Honestly, it is so nice (almost extravagant) to wake up and walk into the cook tent to the smell of hot fresh coffee and oatmeal. Momma Sandy, thank you so much for all of

Bering Strait Depending on which resource you use, the Bering Strait is 50-53 miles between Russia and the United States. The first and last pictures on the slide show are of the sunset in the Bering Strait. http://youtu.be/w11s2hIK2Uc We arrived at our test station in the Bering Strait around

Marine Worms.... On Dr Ken Dunton's team (University of Texas Marine Science Institute) is Susan Schonberg, a benthic taxonomist. Last year in the region of Hanna Shoal, she found some polychaetes (marine worms) that are potentially new species to science. The significance of her discovery was