Getting Ready for Greenland
To do field research on top of two miles of ice, you've got to be prepared. Here's what I'm packing. {Read More »}
Archive for May, 2008
Arctic Winter Gives Way to Spring
BARROW, ALASKA-- The seemingly endless circumnavigation of the earth around the sun has come to that point in the journey again where the Arctic region breaks out of the cold, dark winter into spring’s light… {Read More »}
Why Paleoclimate?
PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND-- Here's an example of something that inspires me to try to reconstruct past climate. {Read More »}
Harbinger of Eternal Daylight
FAIRBANKS, ALASKA-- The snow only just melted in interior Alaska last week. Signs of spring abound here: the sky is light for almost twenty hours a day, leaf buds are nearly bursting on the trees… {Read More »}
Next Sunset: August 2nd
BARROW, ALASKA-- (By Robyn Higdon) Barrow always surprises me, and makes me feel silly in my expectations. I was last here in August, 2007, for a scouting trip with the crew. As we approached Barrow… {Read More »}
Scouting for Sites & Shooting in Snow
BARROW, ALASKA-- (By Robyn Higdon) Today the work started for real. We met with scientists, arranged for a car, and started to scout locations for our first few webcasts (beginning with those closest to our… {Read More »}
Outfitting the Adventure
FAIRBANKS, ALASKA-- Scientists that travel to the Arctic to conduct their research have learned that proper planning can be the difference between having a successful season and one where pulling your own wisdom tooth would… {Read More »}
Land of the Midnight Sun
FAIRBANKS, ALASKA-- The adventure of working in the Arctic supporting scientific research has begun. After a long day of connecting flights I finally made it to Alaska, land of the midnight sun and home to… {Read More »}
Living the Dream
BARROW, ALASKA– Since I was a little girl I’ve been fascinated with the past. In this video, I describe the fulfillment of my lifelong dream to work as an archaeologist in the Arctic. {Read More »}
The Arctic Journey Begins
EL PASO, TEXAS-- "You have got to be kidding me." That is what goes through your mind when you literally have to go to the top of the world to go to work. What may… {Read More »}
