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TODAY'S JOURNAL: In my last post I showed how my partner Joe Super and I deployed a sensor via sea kayak to take some measurements of the water column in a fjord in S. Greenland. We were interested in seeing how the water changed going from the sunny surface down to the murky depths. Ordinarily

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

Hi Mom! Love, Everyone I need to start this journal off appropriately. That is to say, to notify the mothers, fathers, and loved ones of all of the research team members here at Mulajokull that we have arrived safe and healthy! We have had an absolute great time getting to know one another, and we

TODAY'S JOURNAL: Yesterday I discussed measuring surface temperature vs. longitude as we approacehed Greenland to see where we entered the cold East Greenland Current. Today I'd like to show how my Grosvenor Teacher Fellow partner Joe Super and I collected measurements to generate vertical water

As planned, today our team spent the bulk of the day purchasing food, packing up the base camp equipment into our 4x4 vehicles and trailer, and traveling to our helicopter staging site across the many outwash rivers separating us from Mulajokull. Today's drive out of Reykjavik took our team through

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

Power it up.... Today 10 of us took a tour down into the engine room and showed us how saltwater is made into freshwater. The ship holds a little over a million gallons of fuel. In Dutch Harbor we need to top off the tanks. It took 6-7 hours to add 260,000 gallons of fuel. ##Water water everywhere

Misleading Names: As I mentioned in the previous post, our voyage retraced early Viking pioneers who sailed from Iceland to Greenland (and ultimately to Newfoundland.) Most of my readers will know the irony in these islands' names, as Iceland is fairly green overall while Greenland is covered about

IT'S BEEN A WHILE, I KNOW! So what's been going on with me since my incredible 2010 PolarTREC experience? Well, lots. Teaching is as busy and rewarding as always, all the better now that I have all of my awesome PolarTREC stuff to enhance my curriculum. I got to visit my research team at the USGS

Wow, that's a LOT of water...solid AND liquid. My flight to Iceland on Iceland Air was the most comfortable and enjoyable experiences I have had on an airplane. Our team met briefly for a few moments before boarding the plane in Boston, and approximately five hours later we touched down at