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Today is my last day at Kevo. Yesterday I had to say goodbye to the Petsikko Wetlands. We had a blast out there under a beautifully blue sky with enough cooling breeze to keep most of the bugs at bay. You just can't ask for more than that! One of the things I have learned heaps about while out here

What better way to get ready to go to Alaska next week than to put on my boots and take a hike with Denali, my favorite sled dog? Denali, Tanya and I hit the trail at Jockey Hollow National Historic Park in Morristown, NJ this weekend. The weather was beautiful and the woods were filled with the

Team Squirrel usually works long hours, but this week we took some time off (one day on purpose and one day because of bad weather). So, what do you do in Toolik when you have free time? (Besides clean the lab, do paperwork, manage e-mail, and do data entry, of course!) ##Hiking In the dining hall

First I should say that the Fish Spy has performed fantastically! She has done what she was built for - spy on the world beneath the surface. Having said that, we have hit some unexpected obstacles of which we have no control. But fear not - our little Fish Spy has a lot of work to do before I head

One of the best parts of JSEP is getting to know students and teachers from Denmark and Greenland. In this journal, we introduce the three students from Rosborg Gymnasium who will be participating in both the Field School and Science Education Week. Hello my name is Josefine Vad Birkholm Madsen. I

I have now officially been on every mile of the Dalton highway, been 250 miles north of the Arctic Circle, and 1200 miles north of the North Pole. We took an impromptu trip to Deadhorse (awful name!)/Prudhoe Bay today so Cory could get antibiotics for an infected wound. The Toolik staff arranged for

Introducing Grace Wischmeyer! I am a rising senior at West Leyden High School in Northlake, Illinois. It’s a great school, to be sure, with excellent teachers and a very culturally diverse student body. Many students who graduate from Leyden become the first in their families to attend college; the

The gas measurements we have been doing since I arrived are providing the control gas fluxes for Kim's experiment. Later in the summer, Kim will be adding chemicals to half of the collars, in an effort to gain more insight into what controls methane flux in Arctic wetlands. ##Arctic Wetland

This post is for those of you that have asked me how Arctic ground squirrels compare with the squirrels we see in Oklahoma (mostly Eastern fox squirrels). Sit back, relax, and enjoy the video! http://

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