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Back in the Air

By John Whiteman · April 19, 2010 · comments 1 comment
KAKTOVIK, ALASKA-- The captures have been going well. We caught the largest bear I have seen, an adult male who weighed 1,147 lbs. His neck was several times the size of my waist, and I could not fit both hands around his snout... {Read More »}


From the Andes to the Arctic

By John Whiteman · April 7, 2010 · comments No comments yet
LARAMIE, WYOMING-- It may seem odd to jump from polar bears in the Arctic to grazing animals high in the Andes mountains, but animals face similar challenges in both places... {Read More »}


Sampling the Air at the South Pole

By Nick Morgan · December 19, 2009 · comments No comments yet
SOUTH POLE, ANTARCTICA-- Check out this video to see one of the methods we use to collect air samples out in the Clean Air Sector at the Atmospheric Research Observatory.... {Read More »}


You Can’t Control the Weather

By John Whiteman · November 1, 2009 · comments 3 comments
BARROW, ALASKA-- One afternoon a young adult female polar bear wandered by the ship. She appeared out of the blowing snow and walked past the stern, fairly close to the ship. An hour later she reappeared and approached the ship... {Read More »}


Another Recapture, and Big Seas

By John Whiteman · October 11, 2009 · comments 4 comments
ABOARD THE USCGC POLAR SEA, ON THE CHUKCHI SEA– Over the last week we kept the ship in the same general area, in the northern reaches of the Chukchi Sea. Several days of cooler weather allowed the ice to thicken a little, and we had another successful recapture of an adult female with her cub... {Read More »}


Springtime in the Arctic

By John Whiteman · May 1, 2009 · comments 7 comments
DEADHORSE, ALASKA-- Spring has arrived in this part of the Arctic. In the last ten days, temperatures have risen from -20 to +45 Fahrenheit –… {Read More »}


The End of Our Cruise

By Maria Vernet · May 1, 2009 · comments No comments yet
PUNTA ARENAS, CHILE-- Late last night we arrived at Punta Arenas, Chile. This marks the end of our Iceberg 3 cruise. We have finished analyzing the samples, re-calibrating instruments and we are now ready to start packing... {Read More »}


Our Series of Unfortunate Events

By Adrienne Block · January 30, 2009 · comments 2 comments
AGAP-SOUTH CAMP, ANTARCTICA– On January 6th, we sat around after dinner discussing how miraculous it was that nothing had gone wrong. This clearly was the cosmic queue for everything to go wrong in the next 27 hours... {Read More »}


A Typical Day in an Atypical Place

By Adrienne Block · January 23, 2009 · comments 1 comment
AGAP-SOUTH CAMP, ANTARCTICA– Once we began flying at AGAP, we quickly got into a routine of collecting data, downloading, archiving and running a quality control procedure. We are operating 24 hours a day in two teams... {Read More »}


One Month in the Deep Field, Part 5

By Jake Walter · December 28, 2008 · comments No comments yet
CHRISTCHURCH, NEW ZEALAND-- For about a month, we worked every single day, taking turns cooking for each other (some meals more agreeable than others – there were some complaints about my dishes being too spicy!), sleeping in individual mountain tents... {Read More »}

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