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Summary After the 8am morning meeting the students headed out with the science techs to complete the days standard experiments. Two science techs walk to various small stations around the "Big House" that are taking measurements and must be recorded at least once per day. Students donned clean

Over the past four days I have been out of communication range and attending an Alaskan Geographic course on Climate Change. The course was fantastic! Not only was the whole experience organized and run by Sarah Crowley and our guide Margi, who both did a splendid job of making sure everyone was

The university students of the Polaris Project each work on independent research. Periodically, I will share the stories of these remarkable young people. ##Ludda Ludwig – St. Olaf College This afternoon, Ludda and I walked out to the experimental burn plots to take measurements for her research

The university students of the Polaris Project each work on independent research. Periodically, I will share the stories of these remarkable young people. ##Vasily Lebedev – Graduate Student at Moscow State University Along with Dr. Karen Frey of Clark University, I went with Vasily on our motorized

The weather finally cleared up and gave us two beautiful days! We had a lot of lost field time to make up for, so we headed out an hour early to all three of our field sites. It felt like we got a lot accomplished! We set up a series of four 25 cup grids for sampling spider density at Atigun

It dropped to about 40 degrees Fahrenheit last night, and the sound of a steady rain on my tent made it especially difficult for me to get out of my sleeping bag this morning. After a cup of Toolik Turbo (we don't have decaf., just "regular" and "high-test" coffee) Kiki and I put our rain gear back

Summary We had a 3am wake-up call for our flight to Summit this morning which was delayed until 7am. But we made it before noon and had a wonderful lunch, tour of the station, and dinner. Students then did the dishes, cleaned the tables and hear a lecture from IGERT student Kaitlin Keegan.

Today's adventures consisted of a return to the Karst systems for a number of different purposes. We shuttled gear again to our boat landing on Lake Linne consisting mostly of jerry-cans full of gas and our bathymetric gear to be used on Linne and the smaller Karst lakes. For reference: bathymetry

Thursday proved to be an excellent first full day in Isfjord Radio. The schedule was/is as follows and will remain: 6:30: Rise and shine, shower (probably), decide on outfit, function not the other… 7:15: Exit Polarbrokka, look both ways for polar bears, enter Main building 7:20: Check internet

What are these two devices used for? Here’s a hint: they have essentially the same purpose but are used in different environments. ##Creative Contraption 1 The top device is a flux chamber that measures the carbon dioxide gas released by the respiration of microbes and other organisms in the soil