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Science Education Week is the second phase of JSEP. The remaining eight students and four teachers have been reorganized into two groups named Aput (Snow) and Siku (Ice) because of the main focus of the program: the trip to the top of the ice cap. The expedition continues! -- Lynn The morning began

Today was a quiet day in camp, catching up on computer work. But I did manage to get out and paddle around Toolik Lake in one of the camp's canoes. The lake and the mountains were beautiful, with amazing clouds over the Brooks Range to the south.

After having sampled the land, lakes and rivers near Toolik in the northern foothills of the Brooks Range, today we drove north to the coastal plain of the Arctic Ocean. We sampled the lakes there to try and find out how they might be affecting the carbon cycle on the tundra, and what role they play

What is a Food Web?## At its most basic level, a food web is a diagram showing who eats who (or what) in an ecosystem. Food webs can be extremely complicated, because there are lots of living things within one ecosystem, and organisms often eat lots of different things (like me…I like steak, but I

We have had an excellent Field School this year. The students and teachers worked hard, yet had a lot of fun while learning. Britta collected the following "favorites" from each student to share with our readers. (Tomorrow will begin the U.S.-led Science Education Week.) Ronin-- My favorite part of

It was fun to talk about spiders yesterday, but let’s get back to the carbon cycle now. In a previous post I described some of the team’s work on the role of sunlight in breaking down organic

Collecting Evidence## So just what is a typical day when you are studying the effects of spiders on microbial food webs? Well, as you might expect, no day is typical. There are many questions that Amanda is trying to answer with her research, and as my students will tell you, every good answer to

One of the great things about learning Arctic science here at Toolik is that there’s a wide variety of projects going on. While my team is studying how carbon moves across the landscape, other teams are studying plants, birds, insects, airborne chemicals, hibernating squirrels, and spiders. So today

The second floor of the Kangerlussuaq Efterskolia is bustling with activity as we start to wrap up our time here at the Field School. There are flowers to be identified, movies to be edited, samples to be tested, and calculations to be calculated. As the unfortunate author of this post recently

Yesterday was my first Fourth of July in Greenland. Actually, it was my first Fourth of July ever, and truthfully, I don’t think I would have been more elated to spend it on any other ice sheet, or country for that matter. Besides the makeshift grills and after dinner games, the highlight of the day