It started clearing off today, so hopefully we will get some decent data tonight. Since the weather was turning nice, I decided to walk around and see what other research is going on. I found UAF graduate student Laura Brosius drilling holes in the 4.5 ft thick ice that covers Toolik Lake. A picture of her and Shelby, who is a staff member at the station, lifting the ice auger out of the hole they drilled in the ice is shown to the right. Laura works for Dr. Katey Walter, who is in the Water and Environmental Research Center at UAF. Their work has to do with methane gas that comes out of lakes in Alaska and Russia caused by thawing permafrost and other mechanisms. Meeting other scientists and finding out what they do is half the fun of these field expeditions.
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