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After work and dinner, we joined a group for a hike. Hiking is one of the more popular recreational activities here at Toolik, and we are surrounded by some outstanding choices for exploring. We also have plenty of daylight (24 hours of it) to leave for a hike at 7:00 PM. Our destination was the

After my bear excitement last night, I found it hard to sleep. I wore a sleep blind to block out the sunlight, but I couldn't get used to birds singing all night long. There were many other new noises too. My favorite though was the ptarmagin. I will be sure to share this song in a future journal

After a long and exciting day, my mind was feeling a little mushy like the tundra I was looking out upon. At the end of our 11 hour ride, we attended field station orientation, unloaded the truck, and settled into our Arctic homes. I was assigned to a WeatherPORT tent. A lot was going through my

Departing Toolik I have been at Toolik for almost five weeks and I sadly said goodbye this morning and headed south on the Dalton Hwy. I did have a little time to hang out with the two other polarTREC teachers Sue and Nick into the wee hours of the morning (who needs sleep anyway?). As we headed

The Dalton Highway, also called the Haul Road, was our location for the day. The Dalton highway is a road that lacks pavement in many spots, and might be in better condition in the spots that lack pavement anyway. It traverses a little more than 400 miles of some of the most remote country in Alaska

Today’s Journal Yesterday I spent the day riding on a helicopter! I tagged along with Cameron Mackenzie and Heidi Golden who are part of the Fishscape project, which is a collaboration between the Marine Biological Lab at Woods Hole and University of Connecticut. They are studying the Arctic

Not another false summit! That's what I thought after the second one, but our fearless leader, Mike Weintraub, assured me I could and should make it to the final and true top of the mountain. Sundays are a day when many teams try to take the day off. This past Sunday, after lunch, several of us

Today’s Journal For several weeks were waiting for the snow to melt. Then during the last two weeks of May, water in each of the water tracks was running over the notch in the weir with a lot of surface flow. The shift from peak flow to almost no surface flow happened in about a 7 to 10 days. It