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Last night after our 9:00 p.m. dinner, we all piled onto the barge hooked up to a tug boat and headed up the Kolyma River. At 1:30 p.m. just after lunch today, we arrived at a magical place – Duvannyi Yar. The trip alone was remarkable as it was the first time since we arrived at the Northeast

Mt. Rodinka, a small mountain (351 m) rises from essentially sea level east of the Northeast Science Station. It sits in front of a many higher and larger mountains in the distance. Rodinka, I have been told means either “Birthmark” or “Little Mother Earth” in Russian. On a topographic map, it does

I woke up to another morning of fog so thick that I couldn't see too much beyond the edge of the pad the camp sits on. We've had some unfavorable weather these last few weeks, but I was determined to get some sort of hike in. I decided to wait and join a group that was heading out around 12:00 to

Today I was a testing maniac - a soil chamber testing maniac!!! We spent over 6 hours in the field collecting data. Whew! I was so completely exhausted at the end of the day that I actually was quiet on the drive back to the lab. ##How It's Done So here is the long and short of how I test each soil

Summary Today was a transition day with Field School students and Greenlandic educator Rikke Jorgensen leaving today. Four of the US students left at 9am this morning on the C-130 and arrived safely in Albany, NY. The 9 students who are staying for Science Education Week worked with Brant Miller's

Today's journal is being written from my new room at Polarbrokka, our accommodations for the next month. I find myself extremely red-faced and glad to be winding down after a great meal from the folks here at Isfjord Radio at Kapp Linne. Due to our busy schedule, especially this first week, journals

I was finally able to get though some video editing. So here you go! This first video is from the day I spent in the helo with the Fishscapes project in the Kuparuk River Valley. The Fishscapes project is a collaboration between the Marine Biological Lab at Woods Hole and University of Connecticut

Summary Students are spending today working on their presentations. Any "old" work; videos, reports, etc are also being completed and uploaded to the appropriate journal, so look back over the journals to find the new content. ##Presentations This evening at 7:30pm Greenland time the students will

That's the sound of a serious work day! At least it is for us. The coveted missing United States Post Office package "just" arrived today. I think the USPS will be very sorry they selected Elliot to fill out a customer service evaluation. ##Ready, Set, Go Elliot tore into the box the second we got

Today I ventured back up to the Imnavait Creek Research Site to help Carolyn Livensperger and Heidi Steltzer of Fort Lewis College. Carolyn is a graduate student; Heidi is her advisor and a Principal Investigator on the project we were working on today. This is just another of many parts to the