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I have been taking my GPS where ever I go and Summit is no exception. I really do like to see where I am, especially when flying on airplanes. Only once did I have a flight within the US where I could access a GPS unit in the seat in front of me and that was awesome. So I just carry my own GPS with

Yesterday was my first full day in Barrow and even though the day started out rather uneventful, things really picked up after lunch. BASC (Barrow Arctic Science Consortium) opened its new science building, with much hoopla. Alaskan Senator, Ted Stevens was here to do the ribbon cutting along with

I have been dressing in multiple layers from head to toe to keep warm. But on Saturday, June 2, the wind was low (not enough to turn the windmill), the sky was almost cloudless, and air pressure was rising. Our temperature reached 14F...a heat wave! Midmorning I went to my tent to shed clothing and

The morning began at 3:45 when I woke up, beating the alarm by some fifteen minutes. It was pointless to try and steal another fifteen minutes of sleep. I was awake and going to remain so. My first duty, as with every morning, was to feed the dogs. A little earlier than normal but they surely didn’t

CIMS is an acronym for the Chemical Ionization Mass Spectrometer. Dave Tanner from Georgia Tech knows this instrument inside out. Ambient air enters the system under a controlled flow, taking samples every 3 seconds. The gases are reacted with Sulfur hexaflorine (SF6-) which form ionized products

Luke Ziemba graduated with BS in chemistry, working with organic compounds in soil and water. Now, at UNH he measures aerosols in the atmosphere. Aerosols are liquids or solids suspended in gas. Some aerosols can scatter light and produce a cooling effect (white house effect). Other aerosols can

Most people’s vision of "scientists” is men in white lab coats. On the Healy, the only people wearing white coats are the "seal team”—a group of four men and one woman from the National Marine Mammals Laboratory, based in Seattle, Washington. They are a very fun group to be around but then again, I

Camp varies in the number of people who are here. Right now we are a group of 37 but that could swell with the next plane coming in. The cooks certainly need to plan and need to order food way in advance of the fluxes of people. They always need to think ahead. But what else do we always need? Water

I ate lunch today with my father and his gang of Spartanburg High School graduates from the 1950’s. They have been eating lunch every Wednesday for the past two years at the world famous Beacon Drive In. One Spartanburg graduate, Phillip Frey, shown in the picture with me, worked on the ice breaker