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Part of our collection of data includes specimens from the net trawls. We are looking primarily for jelly species but we come across many other critters too. After the trawl, we sort the sample to look for jellies and other interesting creatures. The bulk of the sample is the preserved to be taken

What's A Vole? Voles are small, mouse-like mammals that are more closely related to lemmings than to other rodents. They live above ground and feed on vegetation, seeds, roots, and anything else they can find. Voles are active year round, digging tunnels through the snow to get to food stores and

We arrived at station 1 at approximately 1am Alaskan time. This station is slightly unusual as it is deep and just located off the shelf. The area itself is known as the slime bank. The majority of the other stations are not so deep. By noon we had completed three stations. It is roughly an hour

Today the sky turned grey and the sea looks dark and cold. The water is getting deeper in depth as we head towards our testing site. We still have another 16 hours to go until we arrive at out first station. We are finishing off setting up equipment, testing computer connections, moving chemicals

Take Two This is my second attempt at this blog. I'm nearing the end of my expedition and I'm beginning to think about my message I want to share when I return home to Oklahoma. I thought about the pipeline and how it symbolizes the struggle that is happening not only here in Alaska, but also in

While we are traveling to our research site, a journey that is taking two and a half days, we have some down time. In my case, time to explore the boat. The Sikuliaq is a purpose built 261 foot research vessel. Sikuliaq, pronounced [see-KOO-lee-auk], is an Inupiaq name meaning "young sea ice" or

It Started Out With Normal Routine... Today started like any other Wednesday with a Toolik tram run. When I got back to camp, I had an invite to tag along with Jackson Drew and Amy Li. They were doing a favor for another researcher and were collecting Unispec data out at Imnavait Creek. Unispec

Daily Journal ###Ready to Fly After the drone finished surveying our test site, we powered her up one more time so all of us could get a chance to see what it is like to fly it. I won’t lie; I was more than a little afraid that I would immediately crash it and turn our very sleek and expensive

This morning consisted of being safe on board. Our first task was to unpack all our equipment that had either been brought with us, delivered by air cargo or picked up by the ship in Dutch Harbor or Seward, Alaska. This meant that the equipment was spread out over the ship and we wanted to get it