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We are so excited to have our native visitors from the village of Kivalina. The helicopter just left to go pick them up. I called the village on the satellite phone and spoke with Stanley, the elder who is coming and Tia, one of the two students.Bill helped me set up a nice Northface VE-25 four

Who were the people who left these tiny flakes of stone? Did they sew animal skins together to make clothing? Did they hunt the 15-foot-tall wooly mammoth or were those extinct already? Did they realize they had entered a totally unexplored continent which extended south into a hemisphere no people

Hi, this is Zack Wistort and Nate Wiegman, two students from Niskayuna, New York, who have had the fortunate opportunity to be heading up to Greenland. Today at Summit we saw and learned a great deal. Our minds are still trying to soak it all in, but we will attempt to write a short summary of all

After we removed the sediment traps from the lake, we make new sediment traps for next year. The first picture shows two sediment traps attached to a backpack in the picture. The receiving tube, which is a clear plastic tube, has collected the sediments over the last year. The sediment traps are

Without question getting to work can be very stressful. The traffic, the weather and the whole commuting scene can really be a drag. The commute to work today had it's ups and down as well. There are the usual ups and downs - the ravines and the climb to the terraces can be a challenge. Avoiding the

DEET is the super-strong bug repellant we use. You can get 30 percent DEET, which works well, but 100 percent DEET is the strongest. It will melt the plastic off your Swiss Army knife! Usually we have to apply DEET every few hours but not today. There were no mosquitoes bothering us this entire day

We split into three groups today. One group went up to the glacier to install a couple ISCO auto water sampling device. One group went up into Kongress Lake and the rest went to Linne Lake. The Kongress lake group now has two Norwegian scientists who have joined us, Trine Holm and Nina Vaeroy. Trine

I am finally reporting on 4th International Polar Year (IPY) Science Conference and PolarTEACHER conference I attended in Oslo, Norway on June 5-12, 2010. For those of you unfamiliar with the IPY, it is a large scientific research effort involving hundreds of scientists from over 60 nations that

This particular site is relatively close to camp. It is only a 45-minute hike. There are some streams to cross and some spots that will suck off your boots if you don't walk across them quickly. It is mostly bush whacking but a lot of it is along the ridgeline. We use the bear trails so the walking

I was full of nervous anticipation as I climbed into the tiny helicopter. The door frame seemed so fragile and the nose so small and close to my feet. I hoped it would hold me. The blades were whirring above us and the whole thing started to shake. Suddenly the gravel in front of us started to drop