My last day in the field was great. The team went out early in the morning and everyone was very busy all day. While Elizabeth and Kirsten were getting close to the last frame point plots to be done, and while Verity was taking data and Catherine was measuring the thaw depths, I took some time to
Follow the Polar Expedition is a booklet designed for students to help them learn about the 2012 Chukchi Sea Offshort Monitoring in the Drilling Area (COMIDA) Hanna Shoal Ecosystem Study with PolarTREC teacher Deanna Wheeler. The expedition is August 5-25, 2012, aboard the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter.
The booklet has terms used on the ship as well as several activities
This journal is flying hot off the press this am in hopes that anyone checking out Al Werner's webinar can also have a chance to see some real data comparisons. We are heading out to the field quite shortly but I thought I may be able to fire off a quick graph and select images. This short data
Prior to arriving here in Svalbard, I was completely unaware that we would be staying at such a nice place as Isfjord Radio. You can get a shower here, do laundry once in a while, drink coffee in the morning, and dry all of your clothes off after long days out in the elements. You can put everything
Article from newspaper describing PolarTREC teacher Deanna Wheeler's expedition to the Chucki Sea in August 2012. This article is online in the Southern Maryland News.
Let's think about the phrase "jumbo shrimp." How can something be jumbo (which means insanely large) and shrimpy (which means super small) - at exactly the same time? I always thought that never made sense. Another thing that doesn't make sense is calling something "ultra portable" that clearly
There are small needles for sewing a button back on a shirt, medium sized needles for cross stitching, but perhaps the biggest needles of all are for science!!! Yes, science!! After much calculation and checking and rechecking of her math work, and even a few phone calls to the lower 48 states, Kim
By about field day number 7-9 in a row it seems that all of the data that's been gathered, things put off, things that need learning', or simply mangled feet from hiking hours and hours must be dealt with and everyone in the groups has got something in at least one category. Accordingly, today for
Due to the sampling interval of the isco's taking in meltwater from Linnebreen, a group must venture up to the glacier on a regular 3 day rotation. That's (24) 0.5 liter water samples taken every 3 hours for each of the iscos totaling 24 liters that must be returned to the Isfjord Radio for
My watch says Thursday so it has apparently been three weeks of arctic expedition. Up here the chronological delimiter of "a week" doesn't seem to really hold much water. I could tell you what we did yesterday (most days), what we'll do tomorrow, or even what we did a while back, but none of it is
