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Today's journal is written by Rebecca Siegel, an REU student from Hampshire College. ### Hi. My name is Rebecca, I’m from Massachusetts, and my project is about iceberg calving. I’m going to explain my project, and then I’m going to tell you what a day in Svalbard is like. I’m looking at how

We have finally gotten to the point of all this digging in the dirt. Natasha unearthed a point last night during an after-dinner bit of excavation work and Joe found one this morning. Natasha's point was complete but Joe's, although larger, was broken. Neither was of the 'fluted' style that has been

Yes, it's true. Out here in the wilds of Alaska, we were forced to eat only mild salsa with our fajitas tonight. Somehow someone at Fred Meyers substituted mild for hot in the food order. Such a tragedy at the end of a hard day of work. We'll just have to tough it out, I suppose. The Raven's Bluff

At the risk of using an archaeological pun, it's time to write a bit about what we're doing here. I mean really, what's the point of spending 8 or 9 hours a day carefully troweling down through layers of dirt in a hole in the ground? What happens to all those bits of chert that we find when we sift

Ny Ålesund, an International Research Community The community of Ny Ålesund is truly international, with research groups from several different countries. I've been quite busy, and focused on my role in assisting the REU group with their research, which has meant that I haven't been too good about

Today's journal was written by one of the REU students, Daren McGregor. Daren is entering his senior year at Colby College in Maine, where he is majoring in geology. ##Fire and Ice *Some say the world will end in fire; Some say in ice. From what I've tasted of desire I hold with those who favor

Today was a great day to not be a mosquito--cold, rainy, and windy. Those poor little creatures just couldn't compete with the wind and rain. Temperatures around 50F and winds of 10-15 mph don't seem to be within their comfort zone. It was, however, just right for spending a day outside digging in

Wilderness Tour While in Denali I decided to take a 6-hour wilderness shuttle bus tour to the Toklat Station over 53 miles into the park. The school bus driver acted as our tour guide and was very knowledgeable. He informed us the Denali National Park and Preserve consists of over 6.2 million

More Setbacks... Yesterday we had a number of setbacks (again!). We started out ready to take lots of data, and soon after we began doing CTD casts in earnest, we discovered that our infamous winch mechanism was at it again! This time the wheel over which the cable runs had become completely worn

A chorus of chirping Arctic Terns served as the welcoming committee as I stepped out of the R44 helicopter when we landed at the Raven Bluff camp. While I have always been a fan of multi-modal transportation systems, the ones I have used have involved transitions from cars to bikes or cars to