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Today was another day of extreme archaeology. While it started out significantly warmer than yesterday, it was also significantly wetter. It started raining in the middle of the night and was actively precipitating all morning. By warmer, I mean around 50F instead of hovering near 40F, so we're not

Remember how I said many days ago that archaeology was not for sissies. I need to amend that statement just a bit to read Arctic archaeology is not for sissies. Today we entered the realm of extreme archaeology. No, we weren't dueling with grizzlies or heading out into the wild without our Oreos

What can studying the mud tell us about climate change and the behavior of the glaciers? It's time to step back a little and go a little deeper into the science of sedimentology (mud science). The team has been sampling the sediments in three ways – sampling water, sampling the surface mud

Zeppelin Mountain I'll start with a great hike that I took last night with Rebecca and Liz up to "Zeppelin Mountain" behind Ny Ålesund. It is named after a famous zeppelin (airship or blimp) ride by the Polar explorer Roald Amundsen. He made the first aerial ride across the North Pole in a

So, there we were, working away as the temperature hovered around 40F, the wind blew, and a slight mist filled the air, when we heard the sound of a helicopter. Out here, where the sound of an internal combustion engine is pretty scarce, the sound of an approaching helicopter is obvious from a long

Today as we troweled and sifted our way through the layers of dirt, I asked the team to talk about what things have changed in the world of archaeology and what things have really not changed very much. The consensus was that while the tools and process of excavation have not changed all that much

Today we stuck around Ny Ålesund instead of going out in the field. We had a long group meeting to determine where everyone was with their data collection. We're going to be wrapping things up before too long! By the time we were going to go out on the fjord, we realized that the fog was quite thick

Denali Science and Visitor Centers Denali has a great visitor center as well as a science center. The science center focuses on research that has been done or is currently being done inside the Park. It's a great interactive building with a wolf skeleton, videos to watch, and bones you can touch