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APES and ARCUS

Acronyms abound! Once defined one may ask what Advanced Placement Environmental Science and Arctic Research Consortium of the United States have to do with one another.
In June, I ...

The University of Alaska Fairbanks is a happening place. I was impressed at how academics there really capitalize on all that daylight. On my return from the tundra I got to spend a few days in Fai ...

One of the neatest things that happened to me, from a classroom teacher's point of view, while I was at Toolik Field Station, was an email I received from one of my ninth graders.
In his own eloquen ...

I have been taught that with any adventure there are three components; the anticipation, the participation and the reflection. Everyone has his own favorite component, and it can vary with each adv ...

Well, after a week of plucking specific plants from the test plots we've moved on to a different phase of the project.
The focus of this one is detecting and measuring nitrogen in the soil.
Ni ...

Hi Ayla,
Good to hear form you. I'll be calling the classroom Tue. to say hi and field any questions you might have about my research. Hope you're there. Good luck with finals. The science one i ...

Sunday is a rest day here at Toolik Lake. Everyone has a different approach.
Some lazed around camp, or caught up on their reading and washing. Others went on an adventurous hike into the mountain ...

Thursday evening after a hearty supper a group of miscellaneous researchers, assistants and crew went for a walk near Galbraith Lake to a no name braided river that drains out of the Endicott mountai ...

Well, I've been here a week and a lot has happened since my last journal entry. The work at the test plots continues to go well, and I'm understanding a bit more of the science behind it all.
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Correct, the ladders are covered with plywood.They span the 2x3m plots and rest on plank dividers. In all there are 102 of these plots at this site. This is a long term study, looking at what happen ...

This morning is another beautiful day here at Toolik Lake. The team has gone up to the test plots to finish weeding the mosses, and to begin fertilizing with nitrogen. I've stayed back in the lab to ...

While I'm here at Toolik Lake I will be primarily working with the tundra diversity team. There are several other research projects going on right here, including 2 other TREC teacher/researchers. A ...

Today we spent the day up on the tundra, about 1/4 mile above Toolik Lake.
There are 102- 2meter by 3meter test plots that are being manipulated in various ways. One way is to remove mosses, which i ...

Bio=life
Diversity=variety
Biodiversity refers to the variety of life forms on the planet.
From what I understand, the more variety of species in a community or ecosystem or biome the healthier ...

Here at Toolik Lake there are no trees. All the plants grow on permafrost so their "roots" can't go very deep.
Many of them are non-vascular which means they don't have tubes to carry water up so th ...