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At about midnight on the turn from Friday pm to Saturday am we arrived in Longyearbyen and were hopeful that our bags did too. Luckily, everything made it with the downside that my hot sauce and tooth paste decided they didn't like the inside of their respective containers and exploded in my bag

Early this morning I was picked up at the cabin by Sarah from PolarTREC. We were heading out for a day of hiking and planning in Denali National Park. It was mostly cloudy this morning, but it didn’t look serious and the winds were calm which made it a pretty nice day overall. Sarah wanted to check

The site where we're conducting the research is called the BEO (Barrow Environmental Observatory). The BEO is 7,466 acres of arctic tundra permanently dedicated to scientific research. The land that comprises the BEO was donated by the Inupiat Eskimo people, who recognized the importance of and

It comes down to salt water vs. fresh water. If you remember from my last journal, sea ice is made from ocean water, that's SALT water. Glaciers (and icebergs, by the way) are formed from fresh water or snow. By the way, to find out more about glaciers, check out Shelly Hynes's journal from July 4

Summary The students are spending the morning working on their projects. Several groups have videos to finish up which will be posted to the respective day's blogs as soon as I receive them. Group 1 took several days worth of conductivity measurements and summarized those results which are posted

It is amazing to return to Healy and see the changes in the land! Where there was white, now there is green. Where there was snow, now there are leaves and flowers. Where there was stillness and silence, now there is the sound of countless insects and critters buzzing and moving every which way

As we drove back from Point Barrow, we stopped off the side of the road so I could observe the sea ice of the Arctic Ocean, or more specifically the Chukchi Sea. It was so beautiful to see the large floating ice appearing like sculptures carved from waves and wind into graceful curves, sharp points