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Closing up Shop We've just packed up all the science equipment and are heading off to Longyearbyen where we'll spend our last two days before coming back to the U.S. I want to take the opportunity to close out my time in Ny Ålesund by writing a bit about this remarkable community. We all shout out

Yesterday we did our last bit of science – we picked up the HOBO to finally bring it back to the lab. Rebecca, Liz, Daksha and I said goodbye to the glacier for the last time! It was fitting that the waves and wind were pretty strong on the way back, so we had a bumpy wet ride for our last ride out

Just another rainy, windy, cold day in paradise here at Raven Bluff. The mosquitoes have, apparently, given up completely. Would I rather have sunshine and mosquitoes or cold, wind, and rain without mosquitoes? As I contemplated the answer to this question, I filled and carried buckets of dirt as we

Today's journal is written by REU student George Roth, who is a student at the University of Washington in Seattle, where he is majoring in oceanography I’ve often been asked why a kid who grew up on a potato farm in Idaho became interested in the Arctic. During the summer after my freshman year

A Warming Climate Motivates the Research I've really had a great adventure in Svalbard, and learned quite a bit about glaciers and glacier sediment. But it's time to pull it all together and ask the question – so what? Why is this research important? It boils down to climate. Our climate is

As I write this journal, the rest of the crew is up at the site working. It's almost 10pm, but they headed up after dinner. Why this frenzy of activity? Well, time is running out on our expedition. Tomorrow is the last day for fieldwork, and there's a lot to get done. The day started off with the

"Archaeology is like a box of chocolates", according to BLM archaeologist Bill Hedman. Today we went out sampling that box to see just what kinds of chocolates we had in our big backyard. Helicopter pilot Stan Hermens provided the transport for an excellent day of archaeological exploration. We flew

Alaska SeaLife Center - Seward, Alaska My first stop in Seward was the Alaska SeaLife Center. A friend used to work at the Center and said it was an amazing place that I needed to visit. Luckily, I had my college ID and AAA card as they offer a great discounted rate for admission and the behind

Thwarted by Mother Nature and Modern Technology We had a slow start to today, and went out after lunch to try to finish up Daksha's CTD data. Unfortunately we were thwarted by really heavy ice conditions – there must have been an enormous amount of iceberg calving in the less than 24 hours since