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I've had the good fortune to have two newspaper articles come out about my upcoming expedition- one in the Boulder Daily Camera and one in the Longmont Ledger (I teach in Boulder and live in Longmont.) Click on both to check them out!Also, tune in to Boulder Independent Community Radio station KGNU

Today was a great day! After breakfast, we were issued our cold weather gear which we will need when we go up to Summit tomorrow. There was a lot of laughter as we tried on all of the gear that had been issued to each of us. Our gear consists of fleece pants and jacket, insulated bib pants, a huge

Let's stop and think for a second. Where are we in all of this? Where am I? What am I doing? We still have a little over 2 months before we leave. Wait, hold on, we only have about 70 days? Aghghgh! On the one hand, I'm ready and excited and want to go NOW! Goodness, I'm going to the bottom of the

Anyone who has raised a teenager, or taught one or has been in close proximity for an extended period of time will appreciate that teenagers cannot be scientists. As you know if you fit any of the afore mentioned categories, teenagers know everything. And therefore, you by definition know nothing

Half of the group stayed at Lake Linne and spent the day collecting data loggers and sediment traps. Half of the group went out to the Linne glacier to look around and plan their experiments. We had a particularly long day and it was raining, cold and windy. The staff at Isfjord radio has dinner

Visit with CIRES Education and Outreach and CIRES PicnicToday, I was able to visit with Dr. Susan Buhr, the director of the CIRES Education and Outreach department. She described the major goals of the Education and Outreach department and this immediately led to a brainstorming session about the

I arrived in Barrow last night and everyone on my team is pretty cool. I'll introduce them and our research to you soon. I just need a day or two to get my bearings, settle in, and adjust to the cold...So please keep checking my journals and asking questions. I'm adding new ones from Costa Rica

This is it, the last night before we fly out to the remote archaeological dig site. We are flying out about 30 miles northeast of the village of Kivalina, on the coast of northwest Alaska between Point Hope and Kotzebue. It's been a nice stay in Kotzebue, but we are ready to go into the field. To

This morning started with an early wake-up call - my alarm went off at 4AM so I could be sure to be ready and in the hotel lobby with all my gear for the 5AM pickup by the shuttle to the Air National Guard base. Once on base we went through check-in and a metal detector and then it was on to the

A change of pace was in store for me today. Instead of joining the survey team, I was put with the excavation team. They have been conducting excavations and test pits at the group of depressions we found on our first full day here. I was happy for the change of venue and was anxious to find