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"Two anesthesiologists, a surgeon, and a veterinarian from Argentina pull up to a remote field station in Alaska with two flat tires and no windshield. True life, no joke." - Susanna Michael, Smith College On one of my last days in the field, I want to go back to an earlier event (July 10) that

The weather today has been much more cooperative. When we left the cabin this morning we were greeted by a squirrel on the porch. He was happy just to sit there and stare at us while he finished his pinecone. Then we drove out to the site and walked out to a cool, but calm day that was good for

The cold rain has us in the lab today. It feels like the Carolinas in winter. Kiki and Amanda are busy at the microscopes while I get caught up on some writing and video production work. Here is the newest Polar People video featuring Michael Sheriff. Michael is a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the

I originally spoke to PhD student Shannan Sweet over a month ago about heading into the field with Team Bird, but we've had trouble working out compatible schedules. So I was excited to learn that we would be able to fit in an outing during my last week at Toolik! We drove out to the Imnavait Creek

Summary Students spent the morning working on their Summit video and the afternoon with Lisa Pratt's Indiana University group. The group is testing various types of equipment to determine whether they may be able to detect methane in the field. If the equipment performs well here they hope that

An interesting arctic phenomenon that many of us are noticing is the absurdity of the dreams one navigates each night. They've served as excellent lunchtime conversation reminding us that either none or all of us are 'normal.' Having ventured to the Canadian arctic years earlier I am beginning to

Some people up here think that the state flower should be Epilobium angustifolium, commonly known as Fireweed. The Fireweed is a perennial flower that belongs to the willowherb family. They are native throughout temporal North America, as well as Northern Canada and Britian. The Fireweed gets its

The weather has not been cooperating with us this week. It hasn’t been bad under normal conditions but when it comes to point framing, it has been horrible! Point framing is a procedure used by scientists to determine the biomass, or the amount of living material, that is in one place. From my

Summary In the morning students worked with IGERT fellow Kaitlin Keegan. Kaitlin had the students use their snow pit measurements they took at Summit to calculate the snow density as a function of depth. She then showed them data from 2010 and compared the results. Fie Thorup Hansen wrote up the

Summary Bag drag was at 6:30am and students boarded the flight by 10am. When the C-130 landed several Kangerlussuaq residents were on the flight as a "turnaround" tour. Aggu Broberg of Disco Bay was asked to be a tour guide and interpreter. We then boarded the flight for the 1.5 hour flight to