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Today's Journal The work begins! I've spent the last two days working with Dr. Sarah Godsey getting oriented to our field sites, shuttling gear and setting up the field sites. The photo below shows the Kuparuk River Valley where we are working. We get to look up at the Brooks Range all day. A

Today’s Journal Today I drove 357 miles on the Dalton Highway, named after James W. Dalton and also called the Haul Road, from Fairbanks to Toolik Field Station. The road is mostly gravel with bits of pavement here and there. Our trusty steed is pictured below, which is part of the University of

Today’s Journal Today I started day one of my two-day journey to Toolik Field Station. I left rainy Boulder, CO at 4:30am for a full day of flights up to Fairbanks. It was a beautiful day and mostly clear, so I was able to see several mountain ranges along the way. My flights went smoothly from

It’s been 9 ½ months since we sampled the White Spruce trees near Mancha Creek. During that time the samples have been stored at the Tree Ring Lab at the Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory near New York City. The cores taken from live trees and the ‘cookies’, slabs taken from ‘sub-fossilized’ (aka

Today’s Journal When you hear the word Arctic, what comes to your mind? Cold, snow, ice? Many people also think of the North Pole. Oh, but there is so much more to the Arctic. Let’s learn a bit more. As mentioned in a previous journal the Arctic consists of ocean surrounded by land including parts

I’m back here in Washington DC completing my Einstein Fellowship, but continue to reflect on my experience in Greenland. My time in Greenland went by quickly, so I will continue to post journals about the IceBridge project in the coming weeks. I’m currently working on a series titled “The People of