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Saturday, July, 21. We just got out internet connection at the base camp at Isfjord Radio Station. It took some doing, but thanks to the perserverence and tech skills of Steve Roof, it came to fruition. It will take me a day or two too catch up, and I appologize for the delay. Life at 78 degrees

Ewan is the birder among the team, although everyone else here is also interested in species identification. He has been birding since the age of 10 (is currently 22) and carries a banding kit and mist net when he travels. He is certified to band birds in Great Britain, which has stringent

Are we ready yet? A trip to collect data is no minor feat. If I dash off to school, I have my schoolwork snuggled in my pack, grab the wallet, yell for help to find out where I tossed my keys the night before and I’m off. If I leave something behind, so what? I can work around it, or call my husband

Such organization must have been required to prepare for this field work. Ann is committed to gathering as much information from each captured bird as possible. This way, each capture can potentially give a wealth of raw data for other researchers to use, minimizing the need to impact the colony

Follow along with Misty by clicking the Audio link at the bottom of this page to associate Misty's expedition with the photos below: Image 1 - Our Gear On Shore Taku Osaka and Dani Plante with the gear for the archaeology field camp on the shore near the Vodapadnaya site on Simushir. ***Image 2

Today it rained on and off. We visited the Alaska Native Heritage Center, the Alaska Zoo, and the Alaska Aviation Museum. It was a full day of activities! The Alaska Native Heritage Center featured five Alaska native groups. Representatives from these groups were on hand to teach us about their

Misty and her research team have had some difficulty sending journal entries via satellite phone so she phoned the PolarTREC office to leave an audio journal instead: Misty's audio journal can be accessed via the player below, or you can click on the link to download an mp3 file.

Yesterday, the satellite phone came on board on the third trip of the zodiac, so I stayed on the ship and worked on sending my journals and pictures. The satellite phone is very "persnickety” so it took me about an hour and a half to send 14 emails (8 with images) and to receive 6. Of course, that

We woke up and noticed out the window of our hotel room that some kind of event was taking place. There were rows and rows of small white tents and lots of people heading that way. Al, Robin, and I investigated. It was a craft fair and the tents were actually booths where native and non-native

Today was spent training for extreme conditions in Svalbard. These conditions could include being attacked by a polar bear or falling out of a speeding boat in the middle of the Barents Sea. Hopefully not on the same day. The rifle training was fun. Our team was very good and I especially enjoy