Barrow — January 17
17 January 2012 We woke up a little late this morning after yesterday’s late night. Victoria and I met to go over plans for the day and to discuss the… Read more »
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Back to Alaska!
Hello from Barrow, Alaska! This is Victoria Baylor and Zac Tait, members of the Frischer lab at Skidaway Institute. We are here to collect our final summer season samples and… Read more »
Monday 2 May 2011 – Mystery Object
Today is another day of cleaning and packing. Before getting back to the packing job we decided to pack-up all our samples, get them into the dry liquid nitrogen shipper… Read more »
Sunday 1 May 2011 – Last Lab Day
Today was our last full lab day and the beginning of the end for this trip. After breakfast in the cafeteria, Zac and I began to purify bacterial messenger RNA… Read more »
Wed 27 April 2011 – Lab Day
After yesterday’s first day on the ice, today was supposed to have been spent processing all the samples we collected. However, we forgot our special set of RNA-only pipettes and… Read more »
Wed 27 April 2011 – Lab Day
After yesterday’s first day on the ice, today was supposed to have been spent processing all the samples we collected. However, we forgot our special set of RNA-only pipettes and… 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 »
Ice Camp! – January 25, 2011
We’re getting there! With our team mostly in place (Debbie Bronk and Karrie Sines arrived today), we’re now only missing our fearless leader Tish Yager. Tish, due to family obligations,… Read more »
Notes from the Arctic – Packing-up August 31th, 2010
Hi All, Today was our last full day in Barrow and we spent it largely by shipping home our samples and packing-up our gear. The Bronk group did manage to… Read more »
Notes from the Arctic – Questing for Humics August 29th, 2010
Dr. Marc Frischer continues his log of his research trip to Barrow, Alaska. Here is some background information on the research project. Hi All, This morning we woke up to… Read more »