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We are at Mooring Station D. Here WHOI will recover and deploy a mooring, and the science program will do several Rosette casts, some pump lines, Bongo nets and X-CTDs. We are treated to more sun! Second Mate Carol Dunfield who has the Bridge watch from midnight to 4AM, reports that the sun dipped

This past Sunday gave me another opportunity to take a Sunday stroll. This time, I joined University of Texas – El Paso graduate student, Adrian Aguirre, on his coastal erosion monitoring project. The concept is pretty straightforward, yet the data collection and the mapping is rather sophisticated

Our morning meeting had a pretty full agenda of items that needed to be done before we leave tomorrow morning at 7AM. Megan, Kristen, and I stayed at the station to inventory all the supplies and equipment and to create piles for garage storage at the station and for UNIS. The task took the majority

Today is our last trip out on to the ice. WHOI is deploying their last ITP, Dave Meldrum is putting in his third SAMS-IMBS and Alice & Kristina are directing an ice-sampling team. The day starts out warm and sunny (OK, the air temperature is 2C. This is the Arctic after all). After the ITP hole is

Saturday, August 9th, 2008 was the first game of the season for the Barrow Whaler’s Football team. They were playing the Skyview Panthers who traveled up from Anchorage for the game. A long way to go, and a little pricey with the standard fare being around $280/ person. Both teams were ready to play

Note from Dr. E: This journal posting is a series of excerpts from Laska's personal journal from the past week or so. Any text in [brackets] has been added by me for clarification.21 July, Ekarma Island: Today we got to get off the boat and on to the island. Setting p camp is boring but

I am a graduate student at the University of Washington, and for the last two summers I have been working on the KBP project in the Kuril Islands as a member of the archaeology team. However, this summer while the rest of the team is in the field again, I am working at the Smithsonian Institution to

We gathered in the living room of the main building at Isfjord Radio to discuss the tasks of the day and who was to be each team, the most important of which was Jesse's ice coring team. Megan, Antoine and I were to stay at the south hut to deploy a couple of items into Lake Linne, and to start

Because the parameters of conductivity, temperature and depth are so important in oceanographic study, scientists are constantly testing ways to measure it more frequently and more accurately. One interesting technique uses the X-CTD. This is a small CTD sensing device that is shot from the ship

Today's objective was to assist Jesse in collecting samples. We divided into 2 teams with 10 of use heading up the glacier. We were on a mission and the persistent drizzle/rain wasn't going to stop us. First stop was the red hut at the south end of the lake to drop off Megan, Emily, and Leo to