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Listen below: [swf file="http://www.polartrec.com/files/members/ken-williams/audio/kwilliams-042013.mp3"]

On Friday Jamie Hollingsworth and Brian Charland of the Bonanza Creek Long-Term Ecological Project (BC LTEP, more on this later) brought from the University of Alaska-Fairbanks a Honda 4-wheeler Rubicon on tracks with a snowblower attached. This is a powerful little machine. http://youtu.be/OPA340p_

Museums and Hibernation Chambers After 3 days of intense technology training we ventured out. Day 4 found us at the Natural History Museum at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. This impressive facility gave us an opportunity to immerse ourselves in the regions rich natural and cultural history

Here in Fairbanks, we have been experiencing a remarkably cool and snowy spring. We had a significant snowfall during the PolarTREC orientation in late March, and then we had another snowstorm several weeks later, in April. I classify a "significant snowfall" as one that requires me to get out my

This week at CiPEHR preparations for spring continued though the weather certainly wasn’t aware of it. Temperatures remained below freezing. The highest temperature in the morning at the field cabin was +10F. During the day there was potential for above freezing temperatures at the research site

Don’t forget to ‘like’ Operation IceBridge's Facebook page or bookmark the official NASA OIB website. If you're on Facebook, I highly recommend the Facebook page. From March 23 – April 19

The hardest part of getting home was leaving Greenland. Not because I wanted to stop flying with NASA’s Operation IceBridge, but because the only way to get home was to fly in the exact opposite direction from home. The only commercial flights to Greenland this time of year all originate in