Today's Journal
It is officially winter again at Toolik. We woke up with a dusting of new snow and temperatures in the 30's (F). A drastic change from the 55 F degree days of last week.
Since I…
Today’s Journal
Yesterday and today we have been continuing long days of site set up. It is 10:30pm and we are just getting back from the field, so I am going to keep this journal brief. Today was…
Site Set Up
Enough snow has melted for us to start setting up the sites with the equipment that will stay in the field. We have been working hard to prepare all the equipment that will take…
Today's Journal
Today was my first day off since I have been at Toolik and I was very thankful for the chance to relax a bit. Of course I didn’t just sit around camp. Caitlin and I headed about 30…
Today’s Journal
The daily temperatures have been in the high 40’s and 50’s (F) over the last week, yet still only one of our sites has melted out enough to see the flow coming over the weir. The…
Today’s Journal
We have been visiting the sites, continuing with the transects as we wait for real flow to start. Some of the sites are still completely covered in snow, while others are really…
Question to Ponder- Discussion
A few days ago I asked
What special considerations are there for building a field station that can house up to 150 people in the middle of the Arctic tundra? I have…
As we wait for the snow to melt and water to start running we are spending some time in the lab calibrating instruments, filtering the snow samples we collected and preparing for our daily field work…
Today’s Journal
As I mentioned yesterday, we have been out at our sites monitoring the snow depth and density and collecting snow samples, which is all part of the pre-snowmelt fieldwork. Today I’ll…
Today’s Journal
The race is on to sample the snow before it all melts away! We spent today sampling snow depth and density and collecting snow samples. I’ll use this journal to tell you about how we…
Where am I living?
I wanted to give you a glimpse of life at Toolik Field Station and talk a bit about what life is like at a remote field camp in the Arctic. The camp is located 357 miles north of…
Today's Journal
The work begins!
I've spent the last two days working with Dr. Sarah Godsey getting oriented to our field sites, shuttling gear and setting up the field sites. The photo below shows…