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Blood Suckers!!! Yesterday, I spent 15 hours on the tundra collecting data. The day started with the machine not working after I lugged it all the way out to the Old Basin. Unfortunately, I couldn't fix it in the field so I had to lug it back to the lab. That set me back 3.5 hours! Thankfully

As you know from my earlier journals, we are studying the particles that are floating in the air and also landing on the snow. I have written about how we collect the particles that have landed on the snow surface. This journal entry will be about how we capture the particles floating in the air

Close to Home Today Today we stayed in town all day as we were setting up equipment to begin data collection in earnest tomorrow or Thursday. We went in to breakfast to find a note that there had been polar bear snooping around town at around 4 am. At dinner someone from the Chinese team had

Well I can’t believe the summer Scavenger Hunt series is coming to an end – where has the time gone? We’ve had a successful series of events - Tremendous thanks to all those who participated! But, we still have one more summer fling before the school year activities begin! Our good friends at the

Doing the "Recon" Another Geology Puzzle at the end of this journal! Today was our third day of "Reconnaissance," or getting a sense of what is out there so we can begin doing the research with some purpose. We went back out on the boats, but this time we parked the boats at two different

Hey kids! Geology Puzzles at the end of this journal! #Glacier Reconnaissance, Day 2 Today Ross and Julie took us out to do more of what they call what they call "reconnaissance". By this they mean looking over the landscape to see what's out there, how things have changed since they were here

Beluga Whale Yesterday, we received a call telling us that some fisherman had caught a beluga whale. I guess this is a pretty rare occasion (maybe one beluga whale is killed every year, but more likely they get one every other year). I was glad we were there to witness it. By the time I checked

Today was a wonderful day! We had a boat tour of the the area, and got a chance to observe up close the glaciers that we'll be studying. I love being in boats, and the weather was absolutely perfect - bright sunshine all day, and the temperature was about 45º. There was a light breeze, and with the

Our camp size has doubled! Journalists and photographers have come to Summit Station for the day and interviewed Brandon, Hannah, and me about the work we are doing at Summit. I was worried that their flight might get cancelled because it was a foggy morning. The LC-130 plane circled the camp three

Have you figured out the mistake that I made with our tent experiment? I wish you all were here to help me out. Well, after I finished the experiment yesterday, I wondered if making the tents inside the Tomato (in warm air) affected our results. Here is the change I made for our second attempt with