Aurora borealis

Polar Bears and Beluga Whales yesterday. Late tonight (Saturday night) we were able to see the Aurora Borealis. Quite a spectacular showing. Unfortunately I was not able to take any quality pictures with my camera, but we did have someone here who appears to have some good pictures that I will share with you.

Today we were out at the wetlands and did battle with the bugs and dug in more mud. It was also quite warm here today with temperatures in the mid 20's celcius. You convert. I hope you all are getting use to reading and seeing things in metric form, for that is the way it will be.

While in the field today we collected more organic matter samples and counted any seedlings that we find within a certain area. We also did some permafrost coring and digging.

I will attach a video of the permafrost digging.

You need to research the auroa borealis and place that information into your notebooks.

Finally, some of you have posted great questions that I have not posted or had the chance to respond to. I like it that you are keeping me busy with questions and responses to my questions, but I am beginning to fall behind as our work load here is getting a little heavier. I will respond to your questions on this blog and post them in the near future. Today was a long day as we were out in the field at 8:30am came back for lunch at 12:15 back in the field from 1:30-5:30pm, had dinner at 6:00 and then did lab work from 7:00-9:00pm. While in the lab we are processing a large number of soil samples,and have many more to process and collect. So it will be a busy Sunday, but I will do my best to answer your questions.