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It is important to understand changes in** sea level** in order to understand our research here! In most of the world, sea level is rising. That means if you live near the beach, every year the water gets a little higher and a little closer to your home. Finland is different. Sea level here drops 6

Today a vanload of us went on a field trip to Lapland to visit the Ranua Wildlife Park, also known as the "Arctic Zoo of Lapland.” It is a small zoo that features only animals from Finland and/or the Arctic. Most of the birds and animals were being lazy the way zoo animals usually do, but this *

Finland doesn't have quite the maritime tradition that Norway and England have. But, judging from the diverse and beautiful ships in Helsinki harbor, Finland isn't far behind!

Finland is one of the coldest, most northerly countries in the world. By some measures it may be the coldest country of all. Every winter the Baltic Sea freezes over! Ordinary ships cannot plow through sea ice without help. An icebreaker is a ship specially designed to operate in ice. It is

Helsinki is not the ancient capital of Finland. Most of it was built in the 19th century, and so it has that century’s sense of grace and proportion. More than anything, it reminds me of Boston, Massachusetts where I grew up. It is an attractive, harbor-oriented city great for walking around in

After two and a half weeks around Oulu, I wanted to see some of the rest of Finland. So, Friday after work and after our lab meeting was over I hopped on the overnight train to Helsinki. People told me I could fly there for only slightly more money, but they were missing the point. I would have

A few of us went back to the Hiidenkangas site (see my post from May 18) where the big stone axe was found two days ago. We just walked the furrows left by the heavy equipment, eyes glued to the ground. In one morning we surveyed half the clearing –several acres - and found over 100 artifacts

We found something pretty cool yesterday at the Hiidenkangas site. McGill University graduate student Colin Nielsen **picked up a big **stone axe head that was sticking out the ground! None of the blade part was showing – Colin didn’t know it was an artifact until he pulled it out. He knew to

Six or seven times now I have been to the **Kierikki Stone Age Center **in Yli-Ii, an excellent museum and center for research and education on this area’s prehistory. Outside the museum building are dozens of pits in the ground that were foundations of row houses for the hunter-gatherer people who