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As you may remember, I have been fortunate enough to receive a grant to go to Africa. The organization that awarded me the grant is Earth Expeditions. It is a project developed and administered by the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden and Miami University's* Project Dragonfly*. They have programs in

(Ole is Ole Humlum, a scientist from University of Oslo and UNIS who provided us with a lecture on the climate of Svalbard and joined us part of our stay in Kapp Linne while gathering data for a permafrost study.)On our first walk out to the Linne Valley we came across these odd shaped ground

Studying ice means some rather cool (pun intended) field work, involving transport to remote places and using big power tools as well as some purpose-built devices. Alice Orlich (a undergraduate geography student at UAF) and Kristina Brown (a student at UBC) are out on the ice measuring, among other

Physically not us, but something is needed to retrieve our sediment cores! Read below for the process of taking a lake sediment core.Today Kristen, Al, Megan, and Antoine were up at the glacier downloading weather data, and measuring stream discharge and glacial ablation. Steve, Leo and Jesse were

Sunday is Go-For-a-Walk Day. If the weather is even close to acceptable, the Kelley family will head out for a walk somewhere, usually the road or the possibly a trail, one way or another, we get out for some fresh air. Today was no different here in Barrow. I was up early, out the door with coffee

Our underwater ROV is continuing to blossom and grow. The process is a bit complicated but we are seeing the results of our hard work. The students are working on several parts of the process at one time. An important element of the finished product will be the floatation devices. We measured the

The students are starting to build their own underwater ROV. We are using the book Build Your Own Underwater Robot by Harry Bohm and Vickie Jensen. The book is written for students in upper elementary and middle school. However, I have to admit that I was a little intimidated when I first read the

Rick and Will have found a suitable floe and we are going out to deploy an ITP. I am going out on the ice! We helicopter out to the ice and work begins right away. First Will and Jim drill the hole using a 10' auger bit. They drill 3.2 meters down, into the water below. First to go in is the anchor

This journal entry is about a scientific procedure known as necropsy, or the medical examination of a dead animal. The text and pictures that follow may be offensive to some. I hope you find it informative. I walked down past our lab today and into another lab, the Necropsy Lab. A nice lab with lots

Since we've been at Isfjord Radio there have been other scientists here too. Hanne Christiansen and Ole Humlum from UNIS were here working on their permafrost studies (Thermal State of Permafrost in Norway and Svalbard - TSP Norway), Trine Holme and Espen Donali from the University of Oslo were here