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Today Ian and I hiked out of town to get a look around. We wandered out the main road which apparently dead ends out in the tundra because you can't really drive anywhere from Kotzebue - you have to fly or go by boat. A new summer camp is starting tomorrow and all the local kids are arriving either

Today was quite possibly the coolest day ever. It might even surpass the Arenal volcano eruption. I don’t even know where to really start. I flew in a seaplane and got to sit in the co-pilot's seat both ways. I guess travelling solo does have an advantage every now and then. The mountains and

Pre-field visit with the research team at the University of Colorado, Boulder.After getting approval from PolarTREC to conduct a pre-field visit with the research team, I was on a plane and heading to Boulder, Colorado to visit with Dr. Konrad Steffen, the director of CIRES, at the University of

Yesterday's late start due to weather had Greg mandating an early start, rain or shine. Fortunately for us, it was the latter. So up early and out of camp by 9 AM we headed out in two teams for our separate locations. I was once again on the survey team. We walked up to the place we had left off

You can't tell the players without a program! With all the pictures I have been sending along, I thought it might be helpful to you readers out there if I gave you a general idea who all these people are. So here goes… So that's the crew here at Stolbevaya. There are several others who are working

We started data collection today. It requires finding the mooring lines which is not an easy task. We know the approximate locations from GPS readings but they may have moved from the currents. Once we find the lines with the multiple data loggers, we need to carefully pull it out of the water using

Through a cold, gray drizzle we landed in Kotzebue this afternoon, about 30 miles north of the Arctic Circle. One of the archaeologists, Ian from Oregon, and I met our BLM contact John Erlich at the airport. He drove us to our BLM house and also to the grocery store. Ian almost fell down when he saw

Dear Readers, My trip to the South Pole with Project IceCube is approaching in four months! It will be here before I know it. I hope that by November 17th I’ll be ready to go. I’ll know I’m ready when my students are excited for the trip as much as I am. By November they will not only know my

We managed to get 4 moorings from one location and 1 from another location and it took all day. The moorings are marked with orange floats that are attached to various sensors which have been submerged in the lake over the winter. They are hard to find because the lake may be higher than expected or

Despite the fact that it is the middle of July and over 90 degrees outside, I have packed a bag with long underwear, wool socks, and fleece. It feels strange to be packing such warm clothes when it is hot outside, but those are what I will need when I get to Greenland on Monday. I almost wish I