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Summary The group headed back out to Russell Glacier to meet up with Karen Cameron's team. Karen is a researcher from the University of Washington. They study subglacial microbes. The students collected subglacial meltwater at the site and brought it back to the labs at KISS in Kangerlussuaq

Today, I had the privilege of working with Dr. Heather Alexander of the University of Texas at Brownsville and her team, setting up 16 plots for an experimental burn to determine how the severity of fire in the Siberian boreal ecosystem affects the permafrost soils and the germination of larch trees

Today you can meet the real brains behind this project as we introduce you to Amanda Koltz. I'm certain her fun fact will surprise you! http://youtu.be/LG-8cj7cfWQ ## Coming Full Circle Things are coming full-circle for Team Spider at about the half-way point of my time here. Yesterday we pulled the

In addition to being the Toolik Field Station Naturalist, Seth Beaudreault has arguably the best dance moves at Toolik, and a collection of funk on his iPod that would make James Brown proud! I had a chance to go out in the field with Seth last week to do some plant phenology. Seth described

Summary The day started with a SKYPE session with Andreas Mikkelsen of Copenhagen University. He explained to the students how to measure river discharge rate (flux) and how that relates to glacier melt. The students then went out to the river and made measurements using simple methods: students

Since we arrived a day later than expected, we needed to work especially hard to make up for lost time at our new home near Cherskiy. This morning, a combination of cold and snow could not hamper the work needing to be done. A favorite saying of my family in the Colorado high country definitely

It's my day off but the fog and cloud cover has us socked in as it has for nearly a week. I passed on a hike, knowing that the view would be limited, and instead opted for a bike ride. Joe Huebner works as a bicycle mechanic when he isn't working as a Field Operations Assistant at Toolik Field

Summary The group began at 8am for our 45 minute journey to Russell Glacier. After lunch we headed to the Greenland Ice Sheet Point 660. Students had several tasks to complete today. They include: - Group 1: Placing a geocache at 660. - Group 2: Video of Julia Bradley Cook and Ruth Heindel of

I left Denver, Colorado at 12:56 a.m. on Tuesday, June 26th and arrived in Cherskiy at 1:00 p.m. on Sunday, July 1, 2012. Below are a few of my favorite highlights of the trip with the Polaris Project that didn’t make previous journals: ##Our First Arctic Sunrise Just past the midpoint of our 9-hour