Today was Wildlife Day! Grizzly, moose, musk oxen, fox and caribou!
We drove the Dalton Highway from Toolik north to the town of Deadhorse, which is as far north as you can go, just a few miles from the Arctic Ocean. Along the way we stopped to take water and gas samples from the Sagavanirktok River, and also tested the river’s light attenuation throughout the water column at each stop. As usual, the overall purpose was to learn how carbon is moving from the land to the water and the air, and how light is affecting carbon as it travels downriver. There will be much more to come about the science behind the work, but it’s been a long day in the field and in the lab, so for now here’s the pictures.
We also spotted Musk oxen and a red fox. Good day for spotting wildlife on the tundra.
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