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Today's journal consists of the random photos and side-stories (in photo) that didn't find their way into a particular day's online documentation. Because of yesterday's long hike to the glacier we've opted to keep things restful with a Quaternary discussion this morning and reading/research this

Summary This post contains all of our activities at NEEM. We arrived on July 19 and left on July 20. We arrived at NEEM yesterday and have been busy since we hit the ground. Yesterday students toured the ice core site, learned about research that will happen after the ice coring complete (which

Glacier days mean going about everything the same as a typical field day only bigger: more breakfast, longer hiking, substantially larger lunch, and a longer day overall with departure and return at the 9's (am and pm, not 'dressed to'). That may seem like a lot of effort to look at some ice but

I think it bit me on the bottom of my foot! Those famous words were uttered by Elliot Friedman, in his long battle with Barrow mosquitoes this summer. When I went on holiday to Thailand 6 years ago, I thought I had my fill of mosquitoes.....until I came here. Until this expedition, I had never

For our final large group adventure, we headed north at about 10 p.m. on Wednesday, June 18, our Barge being pushed by a tugboat in a similar fashion to our trip to Duvannyi Yar. This time, our goal was to visit and take samples from the tundra ecosystem and up to the mouth of the Kolyma River with

The university students of the Polaris Project each work on independent projects. Periodically, I will share the stories of these remarkable young people. ## Lindsey Parkinson: Stop and Smell the Flora If you see a researcher putting a plant in a ziplock bag and carefully sliding it down the inside

Having spent the last three days working with the drillers to make a borehole in Pleistocene Park, we are just barely over halfway down to our goal of reaching 15 meters deep. However, in the words of Slava, a worker at Pleistocene Park and native Yucahgir man with an incredibly gentle disposition,

In talking to my new friends on the permafrost drilling team, they corrected me as to my perspective of the science of drilling. Drilling, they said, is not science, it is simply collecting the data. The science begins when the data are analyzed and compared so that a new or better understanding of

What was it like to live in the time of the mammoths? How was the environment different then? What animals lived then, and what was their ecosystem like? It’s hard to go back in time (really hard!), but perhaps creating that environment is not out of the question. This is the vision and experiment

Here’s a question: What is this? Sometimes a new or larger view really helps put things in perspective: The picture above shows the larger view shows the delta of the Kolyma River. The thousands of lakes are believed to fill the ancient delta as the river migrated east. The brownish-area of lakes is