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After the helicopter left the lake yesterday, I took a tour of the camp. I wish you could have come along... so here is the next best thing. [video] P.S. Today I had my first ride in, behind, and on top of a Vestikhot! T-Mart...staying warm at Lake E

Today the wind stopped and the visibility improved so that I could see Russia from my backyard in Barrow. I snapped a photograph of Tim Martin, a fellow PolarTREC teacher working in Siberia, waving at me while he did the same. Check out his blog under Geologic Climate Research in Siberia.

We have finally arrived! After 12 days of travel and waiting, we have finally arrived at Lake El'gygytgyn. This morning we woke to clear and calm weather... perfect weather for a helicopter flight. (No, not April Fools!) We hauled all of our gear out to the airport, waited for the paperwork and

This is the third day of very strong winds. Snow is blowing everywhere and doing everything seems difficult today. The visibility is very poor, and I can barely see the road from my laboratory window. It is only about 100 m away. Normally the 0.5 km walk to the BARC building from the cafeteria is

Today we left the BARC walked to BASC and went on a scientist field trip to ARM that is run by DOE. After that we toured the CMDL Barrow Observatory that is run by NOAA ESRL. We saw a LIDAR, and instruments that monitor CO2, NOx, CH4, CFC's and the alphabet soup continues. (Don't worry there won't

The Earth below me was hungry last night. At least that's what it felt like! At around 4:30 am in Anchorage I woke up with the sensation of a stomach rumbling all around me. Earthquake! It only registered a 3 on the Richter Scale, which means that most Alaskans probably didn't even wake up. The

You really can see Alaska from here!!! During our afternoon walk, I looked to the East and believe it or not, I could see Betsey Wilkening over in Alaska doing research on the snow up in Barrow! Take some time to click over to the left and check out Betsey's journal about life up at BARC in Barrow

I have no idea what a huge bull moose would be looking for on the side of a highway in the middle of Anchorage but there he was watching the world go by. I had only been in Alaska for an hour but after sitting on the plane all the way across the country from Washington, DC, I needed to stretch my

Many of you are wondering as to why our team, (currently 7- three Germans and 4 Americans) are spending so much time in Pevek. Clearly, it was not part of the original plan to fly ¾ of the way around the world to spend over a week waiting at the Pevek weather station. In mid-March as we were

Scientist Laura Gemery shares her story of "Life on the Back Deck"During this cruise, the chief scientist, Dr. Lee Cooper, has planned 40 collection stops, called stations. Collection is carried out 24 hours a day, so there are two working groups, each taking 12-hour shifts. I'm working the 11:30 am