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*Rollin down a backwoods Tennessee byway, one arm on the wheel, holdin my Lover with the other: a sweet, soft, southern thrill. Worked hard all week; got a little jingle on a Tennessee Saturday night. Couldn’t feel better: I’m together with my Dixieland delight. Whitetail buck deer munchin on clover

July 5, 2008 – Saturday - Celebrate Independence Day! So, there I was, trying to write my journal entry and all the sudden…I hear over the radio, "THE WINCH IS BROKE!…THE WINCH IS BROKE!…NEMO ISN’T COMING BACK IN!”. And, so, I left this computer and tomorrow… [swf file="journal/video/converted/10871

Yesterday you were introduced to the MOCNESS, today we will go into a bit more "depth"as to what the scientists are sampling, and why they are sampling. We all know about food chains and food webs, but I had no idea as to the breadth of life found in the oceans that is so tiny you need microscopes

July 4, 2008 – Friday – 4th of July! HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY!!! I am sure that most of you are out enjoying the sunshine and eating freshly cut vegetables with barbequed meat and watching fireworks light up the night sky. Here at Summit, we are working hard because the weather is finally

Polar Date July 4, 2008 Independence Day at Toolik Lake began as a normal workday with people up and in the labs or fields or lakes on schedule, which means, early. The weather stayed bright and sunny all day and night with fluffy white clouds providing contrast for the bright blue of the sky. Donie

*Goodbye Joe, me gotta go, me oh my oh Me gotta go pole the pirogue down the bayou My Yvonne, the sweetest one, me oh my oh Son of a gun, we'll have good fun on the bayou... Thibodeaux, Fontainbleau, the place is buzzin' Kinfolk come to see Yvonne by the dozen Dress in style, go hog wild, me oh my

Today will be my first day as part of the MOCNESS team, so I though you should meet these amazing scientists. Nicola studies the early life stages of fish and how they are effected by environmental changes, and how these changes affect their ecology. Nicola works out of the University of Alaska

Polar Date July 3, 2008 Hurray – the weather cleared up. Toolik Lake was bathed in abundant sunshine after a few days of complete overcast. It’s silly to expect the weather to be beautiful everyday, silly and unrealistic, certainly when the station is above the Arctic Circle. But summer is

*When you cant find the light, That got you through the cloudy days, When the stars aint shinin bright, You feel like you’ve lost you’re way, When those candle lights of home, Burn so very far away, Well you got to let your soul shine, Just like my daddy used to say. He used to say soushine, Its