Archive for May, 2010

Plots melted out and instrumented

Wednesday, May 19th, 2010

Our experiment is progressing well. Here's a video of the removal of our fabric on our accelerated snowmelt plots. About 4 days later, our control plots also melted out and they are now fully instrumented with passive warming chambers and our 'mantis' instrument arrays.

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Project Snowmelt

Friday, May 7th, 2010

On Monday of this week, I arrived at Toolik Field station in northern Alaska (68° N latitude) to begin the field work for my new postdoc. It's been amazing to see the arctic, to live at Toolik (an amazing research station) and to participate in kicking off a huge collaborative ...

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