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We have recently noticed birds sitting on the Open Top Chambers (OTCs) that surround half of our mesocosms, and started to question the impacts of predation on our spider populations. Does the presence of predators (birds) on our OTCs affect the size of our spider populations? One quick way to

No sightseers are getting rides on this trolley, though! It's actually a robotic sensor platform that traverses sections of tundra collecting a variety of information. Traveling about 2m per minute, this very cool device is on the cutting edge of data collection. Officially, it's called a networked

It's not a requirement for all of our field sites to be located in beautiful settings, but all three are! We set out 100 pitfall traps on a 10 X 10 meter grid at Imnavait Creek Research site, a 13 mile drive up the Haul road. Imnavait Creek is named after Imnavait Mountain. Imnavait is an Inupiat

Leaving Alaska I boarded the plane in Anchorage with mixed emotions. I can’t wait to see my husband, but I will really miss the Alaskan mountains and tundra. My five weeks in the Arctic was an incredible experience. I feel very luck to be a part of the polarTREC program. I am so thankful for the