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To fully understand the today I need to go back two nights. I had been up for over 20 hours and was ready for bed. The educational team and I had been working fiendishly ( love that word) on a power point presentation with fun activities for the students. I was also working on putting together the

We were back in the field today, a fine place to be, except when it is drizzling and cold all day. I worked a new section, known as the Driftwood Feature in Nuvuk Archaeology terms. There have been significant findings in this area earlier in the summer and the push is on to get more work done

Polar Date: July 16, 2008 The weather, the weather, the weather. It was a gray and dark morning, with the sun blocked by an impenetrable overcast. The Brooks Range was completely blocked from view and the helicopter did not wake people up this morning. I got up early enough though to start the

8:00 am: Despite all the dire warnings of bad weather in the middle of the night, we had a completely uneventful start to our voyage last night. The "Six Ball" waves we were predicted to experience had laid down by the time we got out of Aniva Bay and we've had a very smooth start to our crossing. I

We boarded Iskatel IV today and are headed out into the Sea of Okhotsk. However, we are apparently heading into a storm that is supposed to have waves that are rated at Six Balls. The unsettling thing is that nobody can tell us how big that really is! It is apparently a Russian scaling system for

Polar Date: July 15, 2008 It’s starting to feel like a scene from Groundhog Day with every morning beginning exactly the same – alarm goes off three times, first one at 7:15, second at 7:30, 3rd at 7:45, then Rebecca my roommate gets up. She is out of the tent in 5 minutes flat. I reluctantly

Today I would like you to meet Kirby Krill, well not really Kirby, it could be Kathy. Whatever the gender "The Krill Grazers" are interested! These five women work nights, waiting until dark to collect their samples. They only need one sampling station an evening where they send down the "bongo net"

Another lab day today, we were sifting through batches of sand, gravel, and soil collected from a site in 2006, that is no longer there. The coastal erosion has washed the area, about 150 meters from where we are working now, out into ocean. Our work is critical, the major part of our work for the

"Mom, David asked us to spend the night Wednesday. Can we??" Silence. We all look around the dining room......"Mom will not be here on Wednesday. Ask Dad." I am leaving! My classroom is set up, Mrs. Carr and Dr D. are ready, my family is ready......but are they? 5 weeks is a long time. We have