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A ship is safe in harbor, but that's not what ships are for. The U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Healy, the United States newest and most technologically advanced ice breaker arrived in Barrow! The complex process of transferring researchers, crew, equipment, samples and trash to the stability of land

Traveling from Burlington, VT to Nome, Alaska isn't exactly coast-to-coast, but it's close. The actual distance is 3,577.5 miles as the crow flies. However, Burlington is a small airport, and most trips out of Burlington are via an indirect route. After starting at 9:45 this morning, I arrived in

What an amazing adventure! I was awestruck as we entered a futuristic world of heavy industrialism combined with dust, mud and the open tundra! After several delays, and a flight change through Barrow, we had arrived in Prudhoe Bay! Dr. Okkonen immediately rented a pick-up truck ...and I'm going

Gravity Cores by Dr Lee Cooper The gravity core is an instrument shaped like a missile. It is designed to forcibly enter a meter or more into the sediments. We are primarily using it to collect long, small diameter cores that are suitable for measuring sedimentation rates. Sedimentation rates are

We've arrived! It took a variety of vehicles including cars, trucks, planes and the Research Vessel (R/V) Ukpik to complete our journey! While there were a few delays and changes in routes along the way, we all arrived safely and are ready to begin the research! Dr. Steve Okkonen and I arrived

It has been one week from our official return to the states and the return to 'normalcy' has been interesting. The midnight sun was not so bad to deal with sleeping-wise when you hike a minimum of 8 miles and are dead tired at the end of the day, however, when your days are not quite so physically

Zooplankton Project by Dr. Ashjian- Zooplankton are small animals that live in the water and that swim so slowly that they cannot swim against the ocean currents. Zooplankton are important members of the ocean food web as they consume the very small phytoplankton (plants) that grow in the water

Anchorage Arrival! After a great night’s sleep following a very long day of traveling, research scientist Dr. Robert Campbell and I headed out to meet Dr. Steve Okkonen for a day hike up to Crow Pass in Chugache National Forest. A funny thing happened on the way to the mountain! As we were driving

Coring the bottom- Let’s see if you can shout “Haps” after reading this journal. The Haps Corer is the instrument used by teams studying the bottom of the Chukchi Sea. Simply, it is a tube that is forced into the bottom and removes a cylinder of sediment, which is called a core. On Team Benthos

Science and Poetry Continues! #### Poem At the Seabird Olympics The seabird’s Darth Vader, the long-tailed jaeger, Makes his pirate’s patrol, taking his toll on the kittiwake’s hold of a silvery fish, who wishes instead that both birds will fumble their dish Back to that blue roiling ocean