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It's great to be back in Fairbanks! Everything is very green, and obviously much warmer than when I was here in February. It was also twilight out when I arrived after midnight, compared to the very few hours of daylight we were experiencing this winter. While it's different than last time, I know I

Today seems like a good day for you to meet the members of the Snowmelt Project team that have included me in their work this summer. They are a great group of people, full of energy and knowledge and happy to share it! First off, meet Lead PI (principal investigator) Mike Weintraub. Mike has a Ph.D

To the land of the midnight sun. If you checked out the sunrise and sunset times in Barrow Alaska today you would have found the following: not applicable. The sun never sets at this time of the year so each day is 24 hours of sunshine above the horizon! http://

Today’s Journal I spent a very entertaining day with Jesse and Jonathan, who are both Behavioral Endocrinologists at UC Davis. They make up the bird team and are part of a larger seasonality project at Toolik. We left camp early and drove north on the Dalton Hwy with our binoculars in hand. As we

Breakfast in Charlotte 7:45 AM, EST, Charlotte, NC How do you explain to an almost 3 year old that you are going to the arctic to study wolf spiders? We've worked on this for the last 5 months, and the video below shows the progress that we were able to make in that time. The last time I was in

It seems like only yesterday that I was returning from orientation. After months of preparation, it's finally time to pack. Layers, layers, and more layers! Trying to anticipate what you will need for nearly two months in the field is a lot like estimating the number of breaths you take in a day

Today’s Journal We have data streaming in! Well, we actually have to hike out to the field sites with a laptop to download most of the data, but it is exciting to know that all the wire connecting that we did is actually working. We are starting to get some snap shots of data to give us a sense

There are strange things done in the midnight sun By the men who moil for gold; The Arctic trails have their secret tales That would make your blood run cold From a poem by Robert Service, The Cremation of Sam McGee Incredible light! Were you wondering about the meaning of the phrase, midnight