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While the Haul Road connects Prudhoe Bay to the rest of the state, the vast majority of towns in the North Slope Borough of Alaska are not accessible by road. So when our field site required us to trek out near the small village of Atqasuk, we were required to fly the short 60 miles from Barrow

We’re getting closer and closer to deploying! The first shipment of 2000 pounds of gear and stuff is on its way! I have my tickets and am leaving earlier than originally planned, on September 22 (in 37 days), so that I can do more outreach in New Zealand. Most of the rest of the team is leaving

Today is the first day of school for my students so I wanted to take a break from the regular format of my journal entries to welcome them back for another great year at Centennial Middle School! I made the video below over the summer, knowing I'd miss the beginning of school for the first time in

Speed 16 knots (kts) Course 11° Location 73.195° N, 151.031° W, Southwest Beaufort Sea north of Barrow, AK Depth 3803 meters ## SPECIAL FEATURE DISCUSSION: (see previous journal for the questions.) As acidity increases, pH decreases. The CTD cast produces a profile of

Cathy, Kelsey, and I boarded a Barrow-bound plane in Prudhoe Bay this morning. We left Anna and Elliot to finish gathering data at sites across the oil field and back at Toolik Field Station. In Barrow, America’s northernmost city, we reunited with Ellen Hatleberg and Dima Streletskiy, along with Dr

It's done. It's finished. I can finally breathe...about the webinar, I mean. We did it...the first PolarTREC bilingual webinar in English and Spanish. Although I translate a lot at school, that's news-style translation where I just talk while the other person is speaking. Today, I had to let my

Today I did a lot of things... I went out to the field and took a few hundred pictures. I'm kind of like a photojournalist. My biggest job on the team is to document as much as possible in pictures and video so that they have media aids for when speaking and talking about the project. I also

AWS Up, up and away.Monday morning at Summit began with Ken giving the 8am briefing. Safety was the main message being conveyed, especially for the Phase 1 Winter crew. They will be training for the next three days before taking their positions on full time.After the meeting our team met to discuss

Alaska is full of surprises and I had absolutely no idea of what today would hold. At my PolarTREC orientation, I was told to have no expectations of how things should be, and now I know why.Before he let me on the boat, Lewis made sure that I knew that the ocean can be very dangerous and that I had