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After spending time with Steve Roberts, creator of GIS web tool on the Healy, I learned how to use other tools he has created. Different satellite images can be collected and pieced together to provide valuable information about the Bering Sea. Ice flow can be monitored from day to day. Many times

I am starting this entry from the air somewhere over Northern Siberia...Today was a busy day. We got up early 6:45am (11:45 pm the previous night on home time) to eat a quick breakfast before heading in to down-town Moscow. Marianna, Volker and the US team went to a briefing at the US embassy in

Do I hear bongo drums? No, it is Dr. John Nelson, biologist, going to work after several hours of sleep. He works every station so he is up most of the time. He is collecting zooplankton in a large piece of equipment that looks like a set of bongo drums with nets attached to it. The nets have very

The desert and the arctic have a lot in common: * Both are extreme environments that appear hostile to life at first, but are full of hidden surprises, * Both have beautiful, other-worldly landscapes, remote and empty, * Both are fragile environments sensitive to climate change, * And, both have

A researcher who has been here since the middle of February remarked that even God took a day off on Sunday, so we should be allowed to sleep in one day a week. The OASIS scientists have been working very long hours since February without any days off. On Sundays at the BASC, there is no breakfast

In the video below, Ralf describes his encounter with the polar bear on the sea ice. The background music is provided by SODAR. (I don't think you'll find it on iTunes.) http://

How is a teacher similar to a SODAR? Teachers constantly sends out questions to their students throughout the classroom and wait for responses. According to students this can be quite annoying especially when daydreaming. This is similar to the SODAR because it sends out sound pulses in various

For those of you not from Greensboro or who don't get the Greensboro paper, our expedition was featured on page A1 of the Greensboro News and Record the morning I left! All packed and ready to go... I left Greensboro ahead of schedule on Saturday and after waiting much of the day in the O'Hare

The Spectacled Eider is a spectacular bird that populates the Bering Sea in the winter. From satellite transmitters that were placed on the birds last summer by scientists Matt Sexton and Margaret Petersen, Dr. Jim Lovvorn is able to know exactly where the elusive birds may be in the ice pack. Dr

Life can be strange. On this first day of spring, I am sitting in a laboratory in the Arctic working on my computer. I am in a room full of people speaking French, while listening to my alma-mater the University of Arizona play in the first round of the Final Four Basketball tournament. I'm not sure