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We didn't spend the entire day in the lab on Saturday; of course we had a few tasks to do outside. Photographs of the plots at various stages of snow on and snow off are taken regularly, snow depth measurements are taken at fixed sites , and soil water samples are taken with micro-lysimeters

Today's Journal Over two days we collected soil samples at each of our six sites. We will collect soil samples each time before we do nutrient uptake experiments so that we can estimate the pool of available nitrogen and phosphorous. We also had another addition to our team in the last week

I had the day off on Sunday and although it was cold and foggy and the thought of a relaxing day reading and drinking tea sounded good, I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to explore more of this incredible country side. I jumped in with a group of students and researchers from Toolik that were going

Today turned out to be a good day for inside work in the lab. Early morning brought an inch or so of snow covering the ground; the overall effect was quite beautiful and I was really tickled to get to see fresh snowfall in the Arctic! Our team spent the morning together in the lab; beginning with a

Last week, I was issued a load of equipment for my trip to Cherskiy, Russia. However, as an experienced outdoorsman, I have learned to NEVER go into the field without testing all of my new gear – especially my boots!. What could be worse than getting to Siberia with leaky boots? That is a question

Today's Journal We had a few inches of snow over night and day time temperatures in the mid 35's. This is more like the weather I expected in the Arctic in May! ##Other science happening at Toolik As I have mentioned previously there is a lot of science going on at Toolik. I got to spent the a