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Now that the email is up with journals and photos logged, the team here is very interested in getting some tidbits of current news of the”rest of the world”. Greenland is still here, and the sea ice is melting slowly. Ringed seals lounge on the ice far out in the bay, glaucous gulls have been

Finally, photos! After four days of trying different settings, communicating with Fairbanks and with Jerome and his French computer skills the pictures are finally going through. It took Rachael, who has done research in the Aleutian Islands and in Antarctica on Penguins, to recognize that the files

It took 42 hours to get from Bellingham to Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk. We spent 113 hours in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk. And now we have completed a 62 hour total journey from Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk to our first destination in the Kuril Islands. We left Korsakov at about 5:20 pm on July 18 and last night at 11:30 pm on

After getting to sleep after 2 am, my husband Al and I were out exploring the town of Anchorage by 9 am. How far is it to where you live from Anchorage Anchorage downtown buildings. Information center building on 4th St. in downtown Anchorage Anchorage post office mural.* We discovered a display of

After a 3 1/2 hour trip from Maine to Boston and four flights each ranging from 4 ½ hours to 1 ½ hours, I arrived in Longyearbyen, Svalbard at 2:30 am Thursday, July19. Exhausted and disoriented from the 6 hour time difference I finally slept after being awake for about 30 hours straight (I cannot

Today, my husband and I (and Robin, too) flew to Anchorage, Alaska, for a week of vacation before the expedition. We flew from Fresno, California to Los Angeles, California, to Anchorage, Alaska. Here I am with Robin ready to go. Our jet is in the background. I had three huge bags of luggage. What I

Today I was very busy with last minute practice using the technology I will need to communicate with you while Robin and I are in the field. We will be far from any phone service while working with the research team. There are no cell phone towers where we will be. We must rely on connecting to

We got up at our usual time – about 6 am – ate breakfast and got the rest of the gear packed up. Then we set to cleaning the apartment. By about 8:30 we had the major tasks accomplished and decided to wait until about 9:30 or so to move our gear downstairs and sweep out the rest of the living areas

**8 AM: ** Today is probably our last day of complete free time. Tomorrow morning we will pack up all of our gear and clean the apartment, so that we are ready to be picked up to go to the ship in Korsakov by 10 am. Since we are all typically up by 6:30 am, this will not be a problem to do in the

With the wind and dense fog, almost no Little Auk activity was observed, and a decision was made to stay at camp for the morning. The colony sites are a 40 minute hike up rocks, mossy plateaus, and shale slopes, so the energy invested in the hike must be warranted. An afternoon visit allowed some