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I'm home from my research trip. When I first arrived at Toolik Lake Field Station I thought wow, I'm going to be here for 3 weeks-that's a long time. Those weeks seem to have flown by, and all of a su ...

Aren't rainbows beautiful! We saw many in the Arctic, especially in the direction of the Brooks Mountains. Did you try to take a picturre of your rainbow? Mrs. Bejin

Hi Isaac, how nice to hear from you. I have just 2 days left after today. Tomorrow I am going on a "field trip" to see the Arctic Ocean at Prudoe Bay, Alaska. You should look that up on a map. I have ...

The sign on the chalkboard in the dining hall said, "Friday night: short hike to the Galbraith aufeis." After the last "simple hike" (see a previous journal, "The Big Hike,") I made inquiries as to ho ...

I have to write a quick answer so I can get back out in the field for our 4:00 readings. You must have read my mind-or I read yours, because the sampling and recording of it is what I wrote about toda ...

Now that the permafrost layer is lower in the ground in many places, we can take more samples. On the top of the tussocks we can measure down to over 20 cm before hitting ice. In the valleys between t ...

Canoeing to your garden site? Portaging your canoe over the rest of the frozen lake? You would expect taking care of plants in the tundra to be anything but ordinary, and that was exactly my experienc ...

Canada sounds like it will be fun. You have to stop to visit me a lot next year. Read in my journal about my mountain hiking experience to see what I've been doing-there are pictures in the album too. ...

Thanks for writing-good questions. I chose to do this project because it's important and exciting to me to keep learning. It's always a challenge to learn new things, but I like challenges. What I'm t ...

Do you wonder what we do with all that extra daylight up in the Arctic? Some days we use as much of it as we can. One example is the after dinner hike we took this week. About 7:15 PM anyone who wante ...

Sunday is a day to relax and explore for many science groups and other workers at Toolik Lake Field Station, but our group along with a few others have tasks that must be done each day. That included ...

It is not very cold. If the wind blows from the north it can get chilly. If it isn't blowing the intense rays of the sun can be hot. The tundra is so big you don't see a lot of animals unless you driv ...

I'm doing very well. I love being here because the tundra is so unusual, and the scientists are studying very interesting projects. It has been quite warm.There are lots of wild flowers. Take care, Mr ...

The animals I've seen are ground squirrels, many caribou, moose, and Dall sheep which can climb steep cliffs in the mountains. A few people have seen grizzly bears, but I haven't yet. I'd like to see ...

We've had great weather since I've been here. Yesterday I wore a short sleeve shirt with no jacket. Today I'm wearing a light fleece jacket. Not as cold as I thought it would be! Mrs. Bejin