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Just five weeks remain until departure to Siberia with the Polaris Project team! Here are some of the details I have learned about the trip: ##My General Itinerary from Denver for the Polaris Project to Siberia I will leave Denver, Colorado on Tuesday, June 26, 2012 to meet the American members of

Leaving New Yorks JFK Thursday night at 6:30pm my plane flew West landing about 5 hours later in Seattle Washington. My next flight headed North, past the Arctic Circle and over an amazing array of mountain glacial features, eventually landing in Barrow Alaska on Friday morning at 10:39a.m. Within

Today's Journal Today was my first day off since I have been at Toolik and I was very thankful for the chance to relax a bit. Of course I didn’t just sit around camp. Caitlin and I headed about 30 minutes south on the Dalton Highway to hike up to the Galbraith Aufeis. On the way out, we had

Today’s Journal The daily temperatures have been in the high 40’s and 50’s (F) over the last week, yet still only one of our sites has melted out enough to see the flow coming over the weir. The weir is made of plywood boards buried in the ground that were installed in the fall when the active

Having retuned safely home I am now back into the swing of things with my family and with my students. It was a very successful expedition that was full of new experiences and things to learn. I continue to be amazed at the great work that is being done, in science and in education, to help

Today’s Journal We have been visiting the sites, continuing with the transects as we wait for real flow to start. Some of the sites are still completely covered in snow, while others are really starting to melt off. We are measuring snow depth where snow persists and thaw depth where the ground