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One of the things that has amazed me the most about the Antarctic Ocean is the way ice forms. The Inuit have 50 different names for ice and snow and I can now truly understand why. Ocean water behaves differently than fresh water because of the sodium chloride (salt) and other chlorides in ocean

Today is a tough day to come to grips with, we leave Antarctica tomorrow and it is hard for me to believe this unimaginable experience is over. There are so many people to thank and I know my words will not even come close in relaying how much these people mean to me and how each and everyone of

KC Bierlich, a Doctoral student at Duke University, and Post Doc Michelle Shero, who works with KC at Duke’s marine lab in Beaufort North Carolina, are in Antarctica to study whales. KC’s dissertation is researching how humpback whales, whose migration usually takes them over a thousand miles. From

Toolik Bound ## The Adventures of Flat Cat Today, Flat Cat is sharing two pictures. The first one is where he feels most at home. On a football field. This is the Barrow High School football field, home of the Whalers. And this is the famous whale bone sculpture in Barrow. Impressive. ## Fasten Your

I had a great opportunity to travel on the Laurence M. Gould and accompany a research team from Duke University. The day started out on the bridge of the ship with everyone looking for whales. When we finally reached Andvord Bay, we immediately saw two whales breach the surface. The boat stopped to

The name of my science game is phenology and vegetation change in the warming arctic. We use some pretty cool technology to remote sense the overall health of plants in the tundra. ## But What In The World Is Phenology? In a nutshell, it's the study of the timing of growth and reproductive patterns

The end of school was just days ago. A long, hot and humid Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania summer is looming. The approaching summer is so very different from what I’ll be experiencing in Antarctica. It is hard to wrap my head around the fact that in just a few months, I’ll be on “the Ice”. I am just

I came into this experience not really knowing what to expect. All the pictures I had seen of Utqiagvik (Barrow) have been cloudy, gloomy, and grimy. Although the clouds and mud are everywhere, gloomy is far from the truth. I had some down time to do the tourist thing in town Friday and I am hooked

How Was Your Drive To Work Today? With all the snow on the ground, getting equipment to the site has been a very new experience for me. We took a dog sled out to carry a load and snow machined out. On the way back to the BARC (Barrow Arctic Research Center), I took the musher's place and videoed

Even though the science can sometimes last well into the evenings, we do have a bit of free time usually after dinner ends at 6:30pm. With sunset coming to these parts around 3:30pm, there is not much daylight to do things outside, but I have been lucky enough to take a few strolls around the