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With all the hiking, digging, lifting and screening, I found myself a bit sore and with a bit of back strain. So, I decided to stay at camp today and help Rebecca with some work. I also offered my limited open fire cooking abilities to make dinner. Alyesa and Ola, two Russian students have taken on

Forget Las Vegas, Miami and New York – The real crime scene investigations are going on here at Stolbevaya. Each day we carry our shovels, screens, core sampler and a myriad of other helpful tools to try to piece together what happened here thousands of years ago. Like any good investigator we

A lot of our kitchen and living room in Gammel Stasjonen which means the Old Station where the instructor's live have been made into a lab. In the living room, we have Al, Greg and Diana working on the Interval-o-meter. A very important instrument that collects sediments and measures the interval

Glory be, we awoke to a gorgeous sunny day without a single cloud. Sunlight is shimmering on the river and green hills are all around under a canopy of endless blue. The archaeologists are very excited about the prospects for today. Bill turned on some music in the breakfast tent and then went up to

The visitors have arrived! Tia and Jackie came first and they have stayed all day. Stanley came too and fed us some of his seal blubber and meat for lunch. He had so many amazing stories to tell! He had to leave already but Jackie and Tia are still here. In fact, Jackie and Tia wanted to write in

The heat and humidity of the summer has me wistfully longing on occasion for a relatively wind free and sunny December Antarctic day. We humans are never really quite happy, are we? “It’s too hot.” It’s too cold.” “It’s too windy.” “I wish there was a breeze.” You know the routine! Regardless, I do

Accept the following: You know nothing, but you will learn. You will be cold, but you may adapt. You will talk like Harry Potter.Today was my first day in the field. I'm a Spanish teacher by trade. I've mastered the art of using flashcards and my little "Word Write Up" system to learn a ton of

We went to the Iñupiat Heritage Center and I learned about the history and culture of sustenance hunting. The Iñupiat have been hunting whales, seals, and fish since they arrived to the North Slope thousands of years ago. They still hunt whales, but nowadays they only hunt bowhead whales because of

The Norwegian people I have met have been very interesting. Even in Oslo, which is in the southern end of Norway, there is a light season or polar days in the summer and a dark season or polar nights in the winter. Oslo is similar in latitude to Anchorage, Alaska. According to the Anchorage

Today was a day to learn about some of the vagaries of Arctic research and travel. We woke up this morning to a low cloud ceiling with just a bit of light on the horizon. Last night we were told to have our bags out ready to be loaded on the cargo pallet before breakfast. So we all rolled up our