Hours of hard work went into finishing up the excavation at the Vodapadnaya site this week. Misty and the team got back on the Iskatel and are moving on to some new locations! Learn more by…
Guest journal written by Nick Shankle:
So here is the story so far. James and I landed on the 23rd and set up a camp on Simushir at Nakatomari. That night a typhoon hit the island and by four in…
Listen to Misty Nikula, Ben Fitzhugh, and Mike Etnier by clicking the Audio links below. Calls from Ben and Mike are cut short due to poor satellite phone communications. Learn more about how a…
Today was a very, very wet and windy day. The work was wet, cold and muddy which made it seem like a much longer day. BUT! There is one very nice, bright spot:
Bre is here!
At about 10:30 this…
Today was my turn to be the cook’s helper. Anastasia is our cook and makes three meals a day for us. Each of us takes a turn helping her prepare the meal and then we wash all of the dishes.…
Our weather is still holding out. Periods of heavy drifting fog and some filtered sun today – but only a light wind and no rain.
They say that a picture is worth a thousand words…so here are three…
So far, so good – the weather appears to be holding out well! We have had no sign of the stormy weather indicated by the Iskatel…
Today we spent our first full day working at the site. Right…
So last night, after I called in my journal and emailed in my pictures, I got into my sleeping bag and tried to go to sleep. It was quite challenging, because the wind was howling so bad that I could…
Follow along with Misty by clicking the Audio link at the bottom of this page to associate Misty's expedition with the photos below:
Image 1 - Our Gear On Shore
Taku Osaka and Dani Plante with the…
Misty and her research team have had some difficulty sending journal entries via satellite phone so she phoned the PolarTREC office to leave an audio journal instead:
Misty's audio journal can be…
Yesterday, the satellite phone came on board on the third trip of the zodiac, so I stayed on the ship and worked on sending my journals and pictures. The satellite phone is very "persnickety” so it…
It took 42 hours to get from Bellingham to Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk. We spent 113 hours in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk. And now we have completed a 62 hour total journey from Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk to our first…
