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I can't believe it but this is my last night in camp. The expedition has gone so quickly! I'll fly in the helicopter tomorrow morning from our camp by the Kivalina River out to the Red Dog Mine, and then from there in a Cessna airplane to Kotzebue. I'll spend a few days in Kotzebue getting cleaned

Today I got to hang out with Denver Holt, one of the world's foremost experts on snowy owls. He's been researching owls for over a quarter of a century. He was featured in National Geographic. He's amazing, a fountain of knowledge, a down-to-earth guy who's cool to hang out with. But to hang with

For a large part of June and July, I was fortunate enough to beat the heat and humidity of Southern Louisiana and head to the Northern Rockies as part of a National Outdoor Leadership School (NOLS) expedition. My particular course was an Outdoor Educator seminar, including a Wilderness First

I continue learning new species of vascular plants and their classifications. Vascular plants are plants with xylum to transport water and phloem to transport nutrients throughout the plant. Plants in the tundra are so different from the plants I've seen in any other biome, including the rain forest

I had the opportunity to interview Shelley Woods, a 25 year-old graduate student at The University of Alaska: Fairbanks. Shelly is from Bristal Bay and she is half Yupik. The Yupik are an indigenous people in South Central Alaska. Her village, Dillingham, is reachable only by plane because there are

Well, I'm packed and ready to roll. I managed to get everything I think I'll need for the next 5+ weeks into a rolling duffel, a camera bag/backpack, and my laptop bag. It helps when I'm moving to a big ship with lots of ammenities and climate control inside! Some of my cohort have to bring tents

I found my first biface today! It's a beautiful green chert point almost two inches tall. It's been carefully worked on both sides (most of the flakes we find are only chipped on one side) and it even has little chips along the edge where someone once sharpened it. Actually, according to Dr. Jeff

We had most beautiful weather day. It was sunny and relatively warm. During lunch we took in some rays. And we played arctic soccer using a buoy with a string on it while we waited for the glacier group to finish collecting their samples. It was calm enough on the water to practice taking core

So what would you do? No, not in terms of packing or getting ready to go to the most remote place in the world!What would you do if you wanted to see what’s on the bottom of the ocean? Yes, you can SCUBA dive, as we learned, but there are limitations. You can only go down to about 130 feet, you can