Tuesday, November 11, 2014

Pic of the Trip…


The NGEE Arctic team has enjoyed a great 10-day trip to Barrow. We accomplished everything that we had planned and did so under constraints of short days and low temperatures; but that’s the Arctic. Our team has plenty of activities for this winter, including the quickly approaching Fourth Annual NGEE Arctic All-Hands meeting followed by strong participation in the American Geophysical Union (AGU) meeting. Both of these will be in San Francisco. I look forward to seeing many members from our team during those two back-to-back meetings.

For now, however, we close out another field season in Alaska. Those of you familiar with our blog know that I often save a particularly appealing or amusing picture as our “Pic of the trip”. This week there were several that I personally enjoyed including the sun dipping below the horizon as I landed in Anchorage and the sunrise one morning on the Barrow Environmental Observatory. My favorite, hands down, was one taken of Ori as she enjoyed Häagen-Dazs ice cream one afternoon on the tundra. This might not seem too odd except it was -17F at the time. Ori commented that unlike the summer, she has no trouble keeping her ice cream frozen during winter trips to Barrow. I do recall seeing an ice cream bar often stuck into a nearby snow drift while she took flux measurements all week! Thanks Ori…