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Hot Days in the Arctic

By John Whiteman · August 7, 2009 · comments No comments yet
OLIKTOK POINT, ALASKA-- Last week I made the trip back up to the Arctic coast. Along with two other students from the University of Wyoming who are helping with captures and sample processing, I flew from Denver to Anchorage on Thursday night, then onto Deadhorse... {Read More »}


People on the move

By Cassandra Brooks · October 8, 2008 · comments No comments yet
MOSS LANDING, CALIFORNIA– Among the variety of challenges facing polar societies is the melting permafrost and its effect on people who have been surviving in the Arctic for millennia... {Read More »}


“Here Comes the Rain Again”

By Ken Tape · September 23, 2008 · comments No comments yet
COLVILLE RIVER, ALASKA-- We awoke this morning to rain, wind, and 35? F temperatures. Immediately the remaining sampling lost most of its appeal, but we inhaled our coffee and oatmeal and staggered forth through the wet brush and tussock tundra... {Read More »}


Trucks on the Tundra

By Amy Breen · August 22, 2008 · comments 3 comments
TOOLIK FIELD STATION, ALASKA-- The field station maintains a small fleet of trucks to access field sites adjacent to the nearby Dalton Highway. These trucks… {Read More »}


Putting the Green Back in Greenland

By Mary Miller · July 23, 2008 · comments No comments yet
KANGERLUSSUAQ, GREENLAND-- There are two theories about how Greenland was named, both having to do with the 10th century Vikings who first christened this gigantic Arctic island. One is that Erik the Red, having been banished from Iceland because of his murderous ways... {Read More »}