My Arrival, and First Day

Im here! And it only took 3 hours on this plane to get here!


After a long odyssey beginning at 3:00 am yesterday, and about 6 hours of sleep last night, I have just completed my first full day here at the Churchill Northern Studies Center. Everything here is well heated and so its super comfy when we are indoors. Also the Polar Bears are out on the Hudson Bay Ice right now eating all the seals, so not too many worries about them lurking around outside.

Anyways, today we spent most of the day inside cutting, measuring and weighing branchlets from trees in the region. We are doing this in order to measure the dessication rate of each sample, to infer the impact that climate variables have on the tree populations.

First we would label the data trays










Clip the Branchlet off of the tip...


Watch out for Nubbins...


Dip it in the Wax...


And weigh the sample...


One of the first people I met at the research center was "Star Man". Star Man, used to work at the local observatory, and is here with a group from Elderhostel teaching them about the Auroa Borealis. I was too tired to check it out last night, but am dedicated to staying out and catching a display from the Aurora tonight. Keep on the look out for some pictures.