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It's been a busy month! In preparation for the upcoming IceCube trip, our team (me, Katey, Kristen, Liz, Scott and Jim) spent nearly two weeks at the University of Wisconsin, River Falls working with Jim Madsen, Steve Stevenoski, and Eric Muhs. The first week was a crash course in astrophysics and

It is still daylight as the motor home sways and bumps along beside Turnagin Arm. Twice we have struggled to stay in our lanes against the force of the wind blowing from Cook Inlet. Forest fires have been a problem in the Alaska interior lately so this rain is welcome. It is hard to tell if the pink

When I come to Alaska I almost always head to Wasilla first to see my two sons and their families, but not this year. Our oldest son picked us up at the airport and we hit the road right away. The major difference this is time was that the first stop was NOT at Kevin's home, nor even at his brother

Forty years after man first walked on the moon, I have managed to use a satellite phone to contact PolarTREC...and I owe it all to Iridium!The Iridium system is satellite-based and has 3 components: the satellite network, the ground network and the hardware. First the hardware: the part you can see

While on the beach today working on the Black-legged Kittiwake project, I was truly struck by the number of seabirds that went streaming on by. Several years ago, I drove down to Virginia Beach, VA in January, paid a bunch of money to go on a boat out into the Atlantic Ocean to look for seabirds. We

When I applied to the PolarTREC program, I was asked where I would prefer to go given the options of the Arctic, Antarctica, or either. I checked the Antarctica box only, despite the fact that I may have decreased my chances of being selected. Antarctica was my preference for many reasons. As a

As I've mentioned in earlier journal entries, most of our seabird work here in the Pribilofs is with the Black-legged Kittiwake and Thick-billed Murres. These birds share this island with many other seabird varieties. Some, like the murres are rather large, while others can be tiny, like the Least

In my last journal entry, I discussed how early our day can begin with the seabird telemetry project. Today we were operating at the other end of the schedule, working late into the nighttime hours. We wrapped up on the beach near midnight and still had the long ride back to the house for a late

I'm an Earth Science teacher. So, I'm interested in stuff about the Earth, and Earth Science, or Geoscience*. That's why I subscribe to an e-news service called Geology News. (find out more at www.geology.com)In checking my email today, I see this article: Retreating Glaciers. Though it's not about