There Will Be Blood (Sucking Insects)

A cloud of mosquitoes chase the Polar Fellows on Jade Mountain, near Toolik Lake in northern Alaska.

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On the Road to Toolik: Deadhorse, Alaska

Here is an audio postcard by Nancy Cohen that aired on WNPR this morning. It is as much about the sounds of Deadhorse as the sights. Please listen — It was written to be heard.

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Life at Toolik

Polar Fellow Marília Juste, a Brazilian science reporter for the news website G1, has been busy taking photos of the trip to Toolik Lake, and life at the station. View her Alaska photostream here.

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Fancy meeting you here

We reached the Arctic Circle yesterday after a dusty, bumpy, 8-hour drive up the Dalton Highway from Fairbanks. This “haul road” parallels the Alaskan Pipeline and threads through awesome mountains covered with spruce and, further north, a green carpet of alpine tundra. After jumping out for an Arctic Circle photo opp, we got back on the [...]

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Fire may be harbinger of future

By Christopher Neill
Principal Investigator, MBL Science Journalism Polar Program
           

        The tomato plants I saw in Fairbanks Alaska this week were taller than the ones in my front yard in Falmouth. A clear reminder that the centers of large land masses—and Alaska qualifies as a truly large land mass—produce continental climates that often go to [...]

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