On the Aufeis

ver at The Perch, I put up a post about our trip to an aufeis—a vast ice formation with layers of white and aqua. We climbed on top, traced the tunnels that run through it now that it’s melting, and even ducked beneath it.

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ANWAR Along the Atigun

Went to the Alaskan Wildlife Refuge on a hike—saw sheep, a wolf (from far away) a golden eagle (flew over my head, was nice enough not to drop a missive) and we just missed having a bunch of rocks slide on our heads. And two of us hiked a couple of kilometres past the van. [...]

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Postcards from Toolik

Over at Field Notes, the Polar Field Services Newsletter, Emily Stone writes about Linda Deegan’s research of Arctic Graylings on the Kuparuk River.
Linda Deegan, a senior scientist at MBL who studies an arctic fish called the grayling, doesn’t need to see temperature stats to know that the climate around Lake Toolik is changing. She just [...]

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Carrying oil to the lower 48

Over at greenjersey.org, Jennifer Weiss has written about the Trans-Alaskan Pipeline.
Toolik Field Station, AK – It’s like a strange, 800-mile-long piece of public art: The Alaska pipeline. A monument to the country’s LTR with oil that has carried billions of barrels of it, and still provides hundreds of thousands of barrels a day (15 percent [...]

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Things I didn’t expect to find in the Arctic

Over at C&ENtral Science, Chemical & Engineering News’ blog, I’ve tried to provide readers with a little slice of life up here in the tundra. Check out 5 thing I didn’t expect to find in the arctic.

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