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After a long day waiting yesterday, we got word that the plane that was cancelled yesterday was coming today... very fortunate for us, the expedition, and the town of Pevek. Normally in the wintertime, the plane from Moscow only comes once every two weeks. As many of you are reading this I will be

Sliding through the ice in transit to our next station yesterday evening, all was serene off the "fantail" (the back porch of the boat). Sitting on a ledge in the back window, I could see grease ice and glassy water in every direction. Over the radio a voice crackled suddenly, "There's birds off the

According to plan, at this point, I should have been in the air between Pevek and Moscow. This morning I went to shower so I would feel a little better on the long flight from Pevek to Moscow. When I returned to the room, I learned the disappointing news that our plane never left Moscow

Latitude: 59 26.555N Longitude: 167 47.581WLife on the Healy this Saturday was filled with strange happenings. It started at 3:24 in the morning with a resounding "Now. There's a major fuel leak in Engine Room One. All hands man your general emergency bills", piped throughout the ship. The

A frequent question before I left was; What will it be like to work on a large international expedition? There is so much to say in this regard. A neat symbol of the expedition and continual reminder of our international group was the flagpole beside the office and lab. Once all the country colors

Today is Easter Sunday here in Russia. A quiet day here with many of our group sleeping late. I will be here in Pevek two more days before I fly to Moscow. I have edited several more videos that I recorded while at the lake. The first video is another in my series of conversations with Julie

Here is another of my stories from the camp, a tour of the Physical Properties Measurement Laboratory. In the lab, we measure various properties of the sediment cores to collect an initial set of data from the cores as soon as the cores are brought back into camp. We measure temperature, diameter

Latitude: 61 46.025 N Longitude: 168 55.005 W The Captain had already briefed us on the potential ice hazards. Everyone had wiggled and pulled, squirmed and struggle to suit up in our MSD900 exposure suits. The sleds had been loaded up with heavy equipment and some materials had already been

Today has been a bittersweet day...I did not go out to the rig, but instead packed my bags while waiting for the arrival of the helicopter to begin my long voyage home. Although I am now writing from Pevek, my story is far from over. There are more stories I want to share. (Particularly now that I

My time here at the lake is winding down. If the weather holds, and it looks like it will, the helicopter will come and I will fly out tomorrow. Out on the rig, the down-hole logging team is recording another hundred meters of the borehole, so many of us from the day shift stayed back in camp today