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**Why do I have a 40,000 year old tooth in my backpack? **I'll need to answer that question later in this journal entry. Seriously though, I was sitting in an orthodontist office in the middle of a beautiful Kansas City spring day fully prepared to write a journal entry when a baby mammoth walks

Today we paid a quick visit to one of the many stone age settlements we have found in the woods. With me in the van were Professor Ezra Zubrow, Dr. Eva Hulse, graduate students Dustin Keeler and Greg Korosec, and undergraduate students Sarah Billiar and Loretta Sun, all from

We had our first team meeting on May 8 at the Oulu University main building café. Eighteen students, researchers and teachers from at least six countries were present. Three universities are involved: the State University of New York at Buffalo, McGill University in Montreal Canada, and the

Latitude: 57 30.196N Longitude: 168 04.025WSo where in the world does a producer eat other animals, a consumer make its own food and sometimes either will decide to do both? Welcome to the wacky world of the Bering Sea ecosystem! In theory, there are two main categories of eaters-

Finnish is unlike any other language you are likely to know. Nearly all of the languages in Europe belong to the Indo-European language family and so are all cousins to each other. They share many root words in common, and have similar structures. English, German, Norwegian, Swedish, Danish

I’ve been reading the*** Kalevala***, which is called "Finland’s national epic.” It reveals a lot about Finnish culture because it isn’t anything like other epics such as the Odyssey or Beowulf. Its characters are strictly local heroes, not acting on a national or international scene. All the

PolarTREC teachers are called upon to do a lot of things. Some of us sleep in tents on the ice and shoot polar bears with tranquilizer darts. Some cut up glaciers with chain saws. Plenty have jumped into the Arctic Ocean without a wetsuit. But, I’ll bet I’m the only one to go grocery shopping in

Latitude: 59 50.217N Longitude: 172 04.540WI stumbled into the main lab at 10.30 pm last night, already a little sleepy from a day of webcasting, multicoring and VanVeen grabbing. I was tired but determined to stay up with the mysterious Krill Gang for the night before I ran out of days to