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Here comes the Sun I woke up to bright sunshine this morning! The weather was absolutely perfect today. It got up to around 50ºF, with a light breeze and sunny all day. ##Setting up the lab The morning was spent unpacking boxes and setting up the lab. The group that runs the base here gave us an

Wow, what a beautiful morning. For the last few days, we have had total cloud cover. Finally, we have a sunny day to test our 6th grade experiment! If you read my July 12, 2011 journal, you know that we were trying to figure out why the tents that we sleep in are yellow and not black. We had many

Our weather has taken a decided change for the wetter, with occasional rain showers and gray clouds replacing our searingly sunny days. So, what can you do on grey days? If you're a dendrochronologist, like we are (well, two of us are dendrochronologists-in-training), you make cookies. Now, these

Sorry for the delay in the journal. I spent Monday and Tuesday, both 11 hour days, on the tundra collecting data. I got a lot of reading done and for the 1 set of data I could sit inside and watch movies. However, by yesterday I was exhausted! ### Baby Birds Tuesday afternoon when I went back to the

Midnight Sun Last night the clouds broke and the Sun shone brightly for a while. Consequently this was not a great sleeping night for me – I had a lot of trouble falling asleep with the Sun shining. I found sleeping with the eye shade a bit uncomfortable. Hopefully I will adapt... ##Up to Ny

It's a beautiful evening as I sit on here on the gravel at the edge of Mancha Creek. I'd include a picture for you, but it takes too many of those precious electrons to download pictures from my camera, sort and prepare them, and send them off through the ether. So you'll have to use your own

Good morning! Today is another overcast day but we are expecting good weather tomorrow. It should be the perfect day for a 6th grade experiment. When Mike Bergin and Brandon Strellis visited Renfroe Middle School in April, Edie in Dr. Parker’s class noticed that the tents that we sleep in are yellow

We are in a good work routine. Every morning, we collect snow samples, check on the air sampling instruments, check to see how much sunlight is reflecting of the snow surface and then head back to the Big House for lunch. After lunch, our snow samples have melted and we pour this water through a

We're back in Fairbanks where the electrons flow like water (or, perhaps, just like electrons!) from that funny little thing that is attached to the wall of my dormitory room here at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks campus. Today is a day for drying and re-packing gear, catching up and updating