Friday April 29, 2011 – Moving Ice Camp
Today was another lab day, and although our special pipettes still hadn’t arrived we felt we had to go ahead and process our RNA samples. During our first trip to… Read more »
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Thur 28 April 2011 – Back on the ice
After our relatively slow day in the lab, today we were back out on the ice collecting another set of samples. We returned to our ice camp that we had… Read more »
Thur 28 April 2011 – Back on the ice
After our relatively slow day in the lab, today we were back out on the ice collecting another set of samples. We returned to our ice camp that we had… Read more »
Tuesday 26 April 2011 – Ice Camp! First Sampling Day.
Finally, the labs are set-up (took most of yesterday), all our gear is clean, organized, and ready for use, and was a sunny (almost 19 hours worth) and not too… Read more »
24 April 2011 – Easter Sunday Setting up
Sleeping was tough last night as our bodies are still adjusting to all the sunlight. Despite being so tired I think both Zac and I had a hard time sleeping… Read more »
Spring In Barrow April 23 – May 4, 2011
23 April 2011 Dr. Marc Frischer Hi All, it’s back to Barrow Alaska for another sampling adventure. As I’ve discussed before in this blog, the intent of our project is… Read more »
Packing Up – January 31, 2011
With all our samples collected today was spent processing samples and starting the long process of packing up the labs. First, the two male students (Steve and Zac) hosted a… Read more »
Last Sampling Day – January 30, 2011
Mission almost accomplished! We made it back out to our ice camp today to collect our third and final set of samples for this trip. I once again dared to… Read more »
Samples! – January 26, 2011
Dr. Marc Frischer continues his account of his research expedition to the north coast of Alaska. Today was the day. The weather was relatively mild (only -25 deg F); the… Read more »
Too Cold To Go – January 24, 2011
Marc Frischer continues his account of the challenges of conducting research during the winter on the north coast of Alaska. Another balmy day in Barrow, as I’m writing it is… Read more »