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We finally made it out onto the fjord today, which I guess is the official start of our field work! This morning I worked with Svein Oland from the Norwegian Polar Institute, to get our boat ready. He was incredibly helpful in creating a mounting platform for the winch (to use to lower and raise the

Hello again! It's been a while since my last journal posting, so it's time to give you an update of what's going on. ## PolarTREC Update Unfortunately, I will not be joining Dr. Amy Moran and her team at McMurdo Station this fall. The number of people at McMurdo is reduced due to COVID precautions

Delays Today was another day figuring out how to manage the inevitable delays that come with field work in a place like the Arctic. We found ourselves navigating complex equipment, other unexpected delays, and just the challenge of trying to get all of the aspects of our work up and running. Kelly

Because we arrived on Friday, right before the weekend, we haven’t been able to get the rifles and boat we need to begin the field work or to explore the area. (Even up here people take a break for the weekend!) But we had to open up the boxes and get things organized and ready, anyway, so we spent

Stops and Starts After many stops and starts (a game of “Chutes and Ladders” according to Julie’s husband, Roger!), we have finally arrived in the Arctic research station of Ny Ålesund! On Thursday, we flew up to Longyearbyen. The flight was spectacular! We flew across many glaciers, including one

A quick update on our travels. Yesterday we got ourselves up bright and early to fly to Longyearbyen in Svalbard. After our 10-day quarantine and negative COVID tests, we thought we were good to go. We thought we had done everything properly to enter Svalbard, but we missed an important rule - all

Well, we’ve made it a week in quarantine. Today we got COVID tested, and hopefully by tomorrow we’ll get our results. That would give us Monday to be regular tourists who can go into shops, museums, restaurants etc. Then Tuesday morning we will head off to the airport to fly to Svalbard. On Thursday

We're about halfway through our quarantine here in Oslo before heading up to Svalbard. We're allowed to go outside for walks and runs, and we are super lucky to be staying right next to the beautiful Akerselva River which has a lovely walking path along its whole length. It has been an amazing place

Fire and Rain The Northwest United States is in the midst of an historically extreme heat wave. Temperatures will be around 115 degrees in Portland and 105 degrees in Seattle. This is truly unprecedented! And scary for those who live there. The immediate cause of this extreme heat is a “heat dome

Part 1 of our travel is underway! We arrived in Oslo Saturday morning after an overnight flight from Boston via Amsterdam. These were my first flights since the pandemic began 15 months ago, and it felt very strange to be around so many people in such close quarters. Most were following the mask