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Community Outreach Much of the day was spent researching maps at the Tuzzy Library and planning for the community outreach event next week. The plan is to have an event at the library that promotes the Teen CERT (Community Emergency Response Teams) program offered through FEMA. Anne and I are

After a long bright night at -24°C (-12°F) we trudged over to breakfast and yet more sessions of knot tying. Soon afterwards the IGERT students gave us a presentation on the properties of albedo before we braved the cold and took our own measurements of the albedo. I learned that the albedo (or

Risk #1 We spent more than 3 hours at the Risk Management department for the North Slope Borough, speaking with the manager and assistant manager. They filled us in on their concerns for the city and the entire borough; flooding, loss of coastal land, storm surges, ice shoves ivu, landfill near

This morning we left the Toolik Field Station. I took the first shift driving the Ford truck down the Dalton Highway, 230 miles from Toolik to the Yukon River. Louise, a student from California working on fish studies at Toolik, drove the rest of the way into Fairbanks. It was a 9-hour, 357-mile

Berlesing means buckets…lots and lots of buckets.## In my last post, I explained how soil samples were taken from the tundra. The samples were cut out of each of our plots (with a bread knife

Today we started with a chilling trip from our tents to the ”Big House” and enjoyed a self-served breakfast. At exactly 9:30 we launched a weather balloon that will very accurately measure the weather along with hundreds of others from around the world. After watching the balloon float away, we went