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Morale is important to keep up and who can do that best? The cooks. If the food is good, everyone is happy. If the food is bad, the cooks hear about it. Food on a ship can be delicious, nutritious, and fresh. After almost 3 weeks on the ship we are still eating fresh fruit, a variety of lettuce

Where are those tagged walruses? With the mapserver we can follow the walruses while on the ship. The map below shows us where the walruses are going. The larger red triangles show the current position of a tagged walrus. Notice that 4 walruses are staying to the SE of St. Lawrence Island. Two male

What is big, brown, and has two tusks? A tooth walker, commonly called a walrus. Tonight we were able to see about 80 walruses swimming in the water, creating quite the splash. As the winds are blowing over 40 mph, the walruses stay in the water. These high winds keep our two walrus scientists

While staying in the Pevek meteorology station, I got to thinking... which is a dangerous thing for a science teacher... How can a weather junkie like me not find out about the meteorology station just three stories down stairs? While I am at home, I am a CocoRaHS observer (NC-GL-13 Browns Summit 3

Today would be a great day to stay in the hut and read a book. No such luck. It is very windy outside today. The wind chill is -41°C and -41°F. In Tucson the wind will kick up the dirt into a dust devil. It looks like a mini-tornado, but quickly dies out after traveling a little distance. Outside

Progress has been made transporting the needed drilling equipment from the US to Moscow and from Moscow to Siberia. As this important cargo travels around the planet, we continue to wait here in Pevek. All of the experienced members of the team understand that this is one of the many challenges of

What do you do when you are out on the frozen tundra 13 km (approx. 8 miles) away from the lab while your instrument is acquiring data and your colleagues are working? You can build an igloo if you have an Eskimo to teach you. Holger Sihler found himself in this situation while the scientists from

How do you get a helium filled balloon that is approximately 15 feet in diameter out of a storage warehouse and into a snow field about ½ mile away? The answer in a nutshell, is very slowly and carefully. My task along with six other people was to help Patrick Boylan launch his balloon. The National