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Today was another Barrow-warm day. Upper 40’s, light winds, and foggy. Isaac, a bear guard, remarked, "There’s a warm wind blowing today.” That’s what we had, and over the course of the day, the winds swung from the south around to east-north-east. Large swells, rolling in, with waves pounding the

....not quite a catcher's mitt, but you'll get what I mean!There are a number of instruments placed around the Linne Valley continuously gathering data. For instance, the cameras placed above Lake Linne and closer to the Linne Glacier take 2 pictures per day throughout the year, the data loggers in

After a yummy Sunday supper of turkey with all the trimmings, the WHOI team and the LSSL deck crew prepares the mooring to go back out into the Arctic Ocean for another year. Electronics are checked, batteries replaced, sediment traps reset, and glass balls prepared. Then the whole thing goes back

In an earlier posting (17 July), I mentioned that often we're able to just see the archaeological site (or portion of it) and tell right away what it is. But most of the time it isn't quite so easy, and I thought I would dedicate a posting (or maybe two) to how we actually go about finding these

Today will be the last installment of my meet the crew Monday. There are so many people that I would love to interview and share in this forum, but there is just not enough time in the day. To start today we have MK1 Allan Whiting, and an amazing list of responsibilities he and his department have

How about a peek into a day in the life of Svalbard REU? At this point of the expedition, we've gotten into a "routine" that's anything but routine given the nature of field research. Here we go...7AM: Wake up 8AM: Enjoy a Norwegian style breakfast buffet & pack a big lunch (up to 5 sandwiches for

It’s 5:10PM and today is summer in Barrow, AK. A glorious day, blue skies, turquoise water, sunshine rippling everywhere, and a more or less, lazy, Sunday as well. I’m sitting on the back deck of #268, looking good and doing some writing as usual. Today’s journal is the Chef’s Choice, a collection

Today is Sunday, and there is change in the air. For one, we have left the sun and re-entered fog. We have also started the 70 meter line back to Dutch Harbor. A large portion of the scientists have completed their work, and each station is now predominantly the CTD, calvet, and optics. With three

Today Jim Dunn, Will Ostrom and Rick Krishfield from WHOI will recover a mooring that has been sitting underwater up here in the Arctic collecting data for the past year. The mooring has several data collectors on it: among them are a upward-looking sonar to measure ice thickness and a MMP that