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Life at Toolik Field Station has changed a lot over the years since its inception in 1975. The Institute of Arctic Biology at the University of Alaska Fairbanks runs the research station and coordinates the facility use. During the peak of the summer season, over a hundred researchers can be found

With the PolarEDUCATORS workshop done, the next four days would be spent at the International Polar Year (IPY) 2012 Conference. http://www.ipy2012montreal.ca/ The conference was designed to "bring together over 2,000 Arctic and Antarctic researchers, policy- and decision-makers, and a broad range of

At the end of a week of more learning than I could have possibly anticipated, it was time to say goodbye to my new friends. I decided to drive south and spend a few days in Denali National Park. Denali is a beautiful place. While it is an extremely busy tourist area in the summer, visiting in

Warm House Today's field trips brought us to the campus of the University of Alaska at Fairbanks. We ventured to the Cold Climate Housing Research Center http://www.cchrc.org/ According to their website, CCHRC "Promotes the development and advancement of healthy, durable, and economically sound

Wednesday's focus was logistics. How will we get where we are going? How will we communicate when we are there? What will we need in the field? It was a huge relief to get answers to many of the questions that were on our minds since we found out that we were going on our expeditions. While I will

Today’s Journal Now that I have been at Toolik for almost four weeks, I am getting used to the daily routine. I have seen and been a part of the significant effort that is required to get a new project off the ground. At this point, all the water tracks are flowing and the automated instruments