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Because things so frequently don't go according to plan. Our sailing date has been postponed. There were still a lot of supplies to be loaded on the ship to take to Palmer Station. It’s an impressive and busy sight watching the ship load up – over 20,000 lbs. of stuff! This will be the last ship

Yesterday Kim and I drove six hours south to Rovaniemi. This small city is just a few kilometers south of the Arctic Circle. In fact, Santa Claus Village straddles the Arctic Circle, and all Finns know that this is where Santa lives. Wow, and all this time I thought that North Pole, Alaska (just

Actually, the weather down here is not that much colder than what I left behind in Chicago. We are going into winter down here at the southern tip of the southern hemisphere. The first thing we all do is pick up our ECW gear – Extreme Cold Weather. This consists of lots Canada Goose jacket, long

Trekking across the tundra… and tumbling into bed! Today was my first day in the field, trekking across the sometimes soggy tundra with armfuls of squirrel traps, learning how to transport the squirrels we caught, and learning what to do with them once we get the back to the lab. Aside from short

I recently had the opportunity to hike in the Kevo Strict Nature Reserve, which is only a few kilometers from the research station. Strict Nature Reserve means the area is fenced to prevent reindeer from foraging, and people must stay on the designated trail(s). The Kevo Strict Nature Reserve has

Packing for a month and other challenges I’ve been packing for my adventure off and on for a week. As I thought of an item I needed to take to Toolik with me, I put it on the guest room bed. Early this week, I started organizing and packing those items. I was delighted that so much fits inside the

Hi Everyone, I'm now home in Maine and have had a great first few days back in the classroom. I'm not at school tomorrow, however, as I am taking a group of 8th graders on a backpacking trip in the New Hampshire White Mountains for the weekend. It's going to be quite warm....in the 80s. My wife made

Once a week we are also taking soil samples at the Petsikko wetlands. Kim will later analyze both the DNA and the RNA in each sample. The DNA will provide information about exactly what species of soil microbes are present in the sample. The RNA will tell which of the soil microbes are active at the

Okay, maybe that's an exaggeration. It's not even a musical yet, but our little Fish Spy got air time on WBEZ, Chicago's local National Public Radio affiliate. Check out this great story by Lewis Wallace. http://bit.ly/11VhB0n Lewis joined us on one of our test drives. Click here to read/listen to