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July 1, 2008- Monday – Canada Day HAPPY CANADA DAY….eh…(Sorry that was SO cliché). We’ve been celebrating Canada Day all day long. We only have one Canadian (Tara from Univ. of Toronto) on the crew so I don’t quite understand how it turned into such a celebration, but I guess it gives us something

Polar Date June 30, 2008 I’m getting into a more regular schedule now, waking up pretty late (7:50 or so), getting dressed and ready for the day and barely making the cut-off for breakfast at 8:30. Actually the only cut-off is for the hot food line. That line has breakfast meat and pseudo-meat

***It's a world of laughter A world of tears It's a world of hopes And a world of fears There's so much that we share That it's time we're aware It's a small world after all There is just one moon And one golden sun And a smile means Friendship to ev'ryone Though the mountains divide And the oceans

Our plane from Anchorage arrived at 12:30 in the afternoon and it has been a whirlwind ever since. Robert, one of the scientists, and John, the Armada teacher were on my flight so we rented a car and decided to explore Dutch Harbor and the surrounding countryside. Our first objective was to look for

Polar Date June 29, 2008 Sunday is the single day off from work here at camp, although you wouldn’t know it by walking around the labs. Few people were doing fieldwork, but there were plenty of people working on computers and working with the samples they had previously collected. There were a

June 30, 2008 – Monday - Declination We were able to get a few hours of work in yesterday and the night crew took over last night until the wind picked up and shut down camp…again. It is hard to explain the incessant wind. You get used to it, but only to a point. If you are walking with your back to

Polar Date June 28, 2008 Today I was out in the field with Matt and Elise. Matt will be a senior next year at a college in Vermont and Elise is from California and just received her BS degree in Biology. We took bikes out to the snow fence plots to count dwarf birch (Betula nana) and willows

Last week I went to WHOI and my PolarTREC teacher Gerty Ward tagged along. Our mission was to meet Rick Krishfield, our researcher on the expedition, and to learn more about the BGE Project. Mr K's lab is full of interesting equipment and mysterious boxes. He is very busy packing for the expedition

Y*ou hardly even notice When I try to show you this Song is meant to keep you From doin what you’re supposed to Wakin up too early Maybe we could sleep in Makin banana pancakes Pretend like it’s the weekend now We could pretend that all the time Can’t you see that it’s just rainin There ain't no