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The day began with a morning team meeting in the dining hall to outline the plan for work for Friday through the weekend. We are getting ready to sample soils in order to look more closely at soil chemistry and microbial action in the soil. It's important to make a plan that allows time for the

Incredible views, wildlife sightings, good conversation and a picnic along the Yukon River made the miles fly along the Dalton Highway today. We headed north out of Fairbanks to Toolik Field Station, my home for the next six weeks. The Station is about 370 miles from Fairbanks, and we enjoyed

Today's Journal It is officially winter again at Toolik. We woke up with a dusting of new snow and temperatures in the 30's (F). A drastic change from the 55 F degree days of last week. Since I arrived over two weeks ago, we have been monitoring snow and thaw depth on two transects at each of our

Today’s Journal Yesterday and today we have been continuing long days of site set up. It is 10:30pm and we are just getting back from the field, so I am going to keep this journal brief. Today was the first day of cool overcast skies with a bit of precipitation. This was actually the type of

What could be more fun than trying on authentic Extreme Cold Weather (ECW) gear worn by scientists in the Arctic regions? Over the past few months I've been lucky enough to travel to classrooms around our school district, letting students try on the ECW gear and talking to them about my upcoming

I moved into my home away from home, Quonset hut #166A located at the old site of the U.S. Navel Arctic Research Laboratory (NARL) in Barrow Alaska. It looked a little rough from the outside, but as I opened the door I was happy to enter a tiny, freshly painted set of toasty warm rooms with several

Site Set Up Enough snow has melted for us to start setting up the sites with the equipment that will stay in the field. We have been working hard to prepare all the equipment that will take automated samples in the field. I have learned all sorts of new carpentry and wiring skills. I am quickly