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Today we started out with experiments in the Watson River. Our goal was to determine the discharge rate of the water flowing down from the glacier, in cubic kilometers per year. We first began our experiment by dropping a weighted bottle, suspended by a cord of fixed length, down into the river from

Today was Wildlife Day! Grizzly, moose, musk oxen, fox and caribou! We drove the Dalton Highway from Toolik north to the town of Deadhorse, which is as far north as you can go, just a few miles from the Arctic Ocean. Along the way we stopped to take water and gas samples from the Sagavanirktok River

There are many myths and beliefs in Greenlandic culture; one very well heard is something called Qivittoq (which means in a direction of mountain walker). When a man feels a great sorrow or loss in his life, and there is nothing more to lose, he flees to the mountains and leaves everything else. He

Today was the first day when the identical brightness of the sun at both 7 A.M. and 7 P.M. did not faze me. Today, we spent our energy in the field. With our lunch bags packed and our backpacks full of equipment, we bunched into five small Toyota trucks and made our way to Point 660, which is, as

The Journey of 3,816 miles begins with a cab ride## Hauling my 55lb bag down 3 flights of stairs to a waiting cab at 6:15 am is a great way to start your morning, right? Well maybe not, but it was the start of this amazing adventure I was so fortunate to have been chosen for. The full day of

Let’s get started Let me begin by saying that I’m extremely excited, and honored, to be part of the PolarTrec research team in Barrow with Anne Garland and Natalya Sousa. I’m yet to meet either of them in person, but from phone conversations and emails with Anne, I can tell we’re going to have a

Today was our first full day working in the field and it was amazing! We explored the Kangerlussuaq area, performed experiments in the field, studied glaciers, drew wildflowers, and played with sled dogs. We started out by waking up at 07:00 and eating a hearty breakfast of Danish cornflakes (in

I left Homer on Wednesday, June 26th in late afternoon to catch a 5:00 A.M. Thursday morning plane to Seattle where I would meet our Alaska student participant, Ronin, who was coming in from Hoonah. We traveled together to Chicago and Albany, where we met up with the rest of the group from the

Today we took helicopters to NE14, a small lake near Toolik that has a “thermokarst” feature along its shoreline. I’ll explain more about thermokarst and answer some basic questions about the carbon cycle in upcoming journals, but for today I’m just posting this 2-minute video of the trip. http:/