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Fog bows, white rainbows, cloud bows, sea dogs We traveled through scattered ice this morning. For most of the morning, we had a **beautiful **fog bow in front of the ship. A fog bow is like rain bow in that it is caused by sunlight shining onto water droplets. Because the water droplets that

Last night I went to bed at four, my wake up call was for seven forty five this morning, needless to say if I have a little difficulty explaining micro-zooplankton there is an excuse.Today I am spending time with Diane Stoeker and Kristen Blattner, both from The University of Maryland Center for

Today’s item for the day is the critical skill of perseverance. Simply stated, the ability to keep going, long after you wished you had stopped. We continued to move gravel from the trench today, ..., all day. I was one of the loader – dumpers. We made significant progress, but there will be more

This little saying is borrowed from a friend of mine who is the National Guard currently serving in Afghanistan. Hi Ron! I think you get the picture about the weather here and the point that if we head into the field - rain or shine. The fact of the matter is that field work is expensive and

Things are off to a pretty smooth start, with everything we have planned working essentially perfectly. Yesterday morning (the 21st) we successfully dropped off Ben and Shubin's archaeology team at Ekarma. It was definitely an "all hands on deck" sort of operation to get all of the field equipment

We woke up this morning (20 July) at Chirinkotan Island (in the upper right-hand corner of the map posted earlier) and were greeted by a stunning volcanic cone projecting 724 meters out of the sea (see photo) and what seemed like uncountable numbers of birds. In the air. On shore. And sitting on the

Polar Date: July 22, 2008 **SNOW!!! ** The rain turned to snow overnight and researchers, grads, undergrads, teachers, staff, in fact, everyone was energized and excited to wake up to a winter wonderland in July. Ironically, Christmas in July will be celebrated on Friday, so the snow put