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We finally hit a day when other things besides science just had to be done. Rosvel was leaving today and had to be at the Fairbanks airport this afternoon. We needed to get some building supplies for the experiments and some tools to get the work done. We also needed to take our recyclables and turn

Today the task was to melt the ice in the vertical chamber for the last time and install the accelerometer cables before the ice encloses the area again. Already the friction plate that we installed the day before has partially been encased in ice. We take advantage of the open chamber to snap our

I went out with Christian and Rosvel today to the area known as the Gradient Site. We talked about the experiment that is on going, and that Christian has been helping to work on for six years, and a bit about the history of how this experiment came to be. I want to share what I learned today and

Warning to the squeamish - There are some fish organs posted in today's journal. If you don't want to see what is inside of a fish don't look inside of this journal. Now, some of you have requested to see what goes on inside the fish so let's take a look. We have dissected some Notothenia

Today's goal was to get the instrument panel back into the vertical shaft. To get an idea of what this means you have to imagine a 200 pound square object, very difficult to hold, with delicate sensors on-board, that must carted across a stream, carried up a narrow flight of seventy stairs and

We returned to the ice after lunch today for ice coring. Tara and Steven were set to drill up 5 different cores. Adriane and I went with them and UMIAQ team members Brower and Elroy to give Adriane another chance with her underwater camera, and to give us both a chance for more photos. I asked

With the instrument panel safely in the lab now it is Pete and Denis's job to clean it thoroughly and repair the load sensors. As they are doing that Miriam is up in the ice cave taking a sample of the sediment that has frozen itself into the ice. As the gradation of the rocks occurs from the

So now that we have touched on the carbon cycle from the May 3 journal, and talked a little bit about the experiments on warming from the May 4 journal, the question is, what is going to happen to the humans? Remember that we are not talking about the end of the world or movies like The Day After or

Blood. It tells a story. I'm not talking crime scene kind of story here. I'm talking living, active, current, a dialogue if you will. When you are sick or even if you feel healthy and go in for a physical the doctor takes your blood and then checks off a bunch of boxes of what to check or look for

Today I was treated to a visit by Julie Brigham-Grette, one of the two researchers on my team. I was quite thankful for her effort making the 2-hour drive from Amherst to Boston in the rain. (And dealing with Boston traffic and getting lost on the way, which as anyone who has been to Boston knows