Aurora Burst taken by Ute Kaden 3-17-13 in Fairbanks, AK
Chasing Aurora
Aurora are formed when energetic charged particles (protons and electrons) from the sun interact with earth’s magnetosphere…
Thermokarst Lakes
Thermokarst is a pitted land surface that occurs in Arctic and subarctic regions as permafrost thaws. Permafrost is more or less permanently frozen ground that is often found in…
World Ice Art Championships
Tonight we went to the World Ice Art Championships in Fairbanks, AK. There are more than 100 ice artists participating from over 40 countries in this competition. As we…
Reindeer
Today we went to the Reindeer Research Program at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. George Aguiar taught us a great deal about the reindeer industry in Alaska. Caribou are native to…
Snow, Snow and more Snow!
I have been watching it snow in Fairbanks for the last 26 hours! Here is a picture of how much snow we have received in the parking lot. The people in Fairbanks are glad…
I am finally reporting on 4th International Polar Year (IPY) Science Conference and PolarTEACHER conference I attended in Oslo, Norway on June 5-12, 2010.
For those of you unfamiliar with the IPY,…
As I prepare to return to school in a few days, I took some time out to reflect on my experience at the American Geophysical Union Meeting. It is hard to believe that there were over 14,000…
I am sitting in the second day of the OASIS meeting of scientists at UC Davis, California. We have 32 scientists from many different organizations in the United States, Canada, England, France and…
Summer has finally reached us in Tucson! One of the ways I have been staying cool this summer is creating videos from my PolarTREC experience. It helps looking at snow and drinking ice tea. Enjoy…
When I was chosen as a PolarTREC teacher to work with OASIS in Barrow, Alaska my brother asked, "Why would a self-professed cold wimp like you volunteer to work in the Arctic in the early spring?"…
I'm not sure why, but the volcano gods that are controlling Mt. Redoubt are smiling down on me. My flight out of Barrow into Anchorage went smoothly as planned. I called my cousin Francie from the…
As I awoke this morning I looked out my bedroom window and saw what Holly Reay and I have officially termed "fogus arcticus". There are so many names for different types of white stuff that fall…
