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As this expedition comes to a close it's time to recap and pull together the various scientific endeavors that took place in the Linne Valley during the past month. There were 2 purposes for this expedition; one was providing a rich field research experience for top level undergraduate students, and

Archaeologists talk about the "48 Rule”. This rule states that significant objects or artifacts will be discovered during the last 2 days of the project. We were close today, significant pieces kept showing up in the burial that I have been working on for the last 3 days. Christine and Michael kept

After sampling at 72.36N, 144.42W, the LSSL began a 16-hour 293 km steam south to meet a refueling barge. This break in the science work gave everyone time to take breath after the frenetic pace of the past weeks. Even though we are now receiving satellite TV and are enjoying the Olympics, we

Well, it's been three months since I got off the Healy from our spring research cruise. Sometimes it feels like longer than that!! What have I been doing since the Healy? First of all, I've been enjoying being back on dry land and spending time with family and friends. I've also been hard at work

The process of science can be used to figure out the mechanisms behind a phenomenon, event, or observation, or it can be used to determine if a new tool can be used for analysis of an event or phenomenon. One of the Svalbard REU students from UNIS, Leo Sold from Germany, has chosen to test the

The process of science begins with the creation of a focused question or questions about a phenomenon or observation, and these questions are the basis for the development of a study. All the students here had research questions that provided them with structure of their projects. At this point in

Today’s journal is the National Geographic version. Lots of pictures and captions. We were out listening to a speaker discuss underwater archaeology sites in the area as well as remote operated vehicles to search some of them. After that, Dave’s celebratory last dinner at the local sushi and

This morning is sunny and COLD. WHOI is deploying its last mooring. The key instrument on the mooring is the McLane Moored Profiler (MMP). This alien-looking device spends the year in the cold, cold Arctic waters, traveling up and down over 2000 meters of the water column. The MMP has several

13 August, 2008: Note from Dr. E: Dr Ben Fitzhugh, one of the project Principal Investigators, and I discussed the option of him submitting a guest journal entry and we decided that the best candidate entry was actually from his field journal from last summer. We think it gives a pretty neat, and

Our boatmen arrived the night before and joined us for dinner and that's when we learned that the seas were going to be rough heading back to Longyearbyen. Since taking a boat is the only method of transportation back to Longyearbyen this time of year, we are extremely dependent on the weather and