This summer will be Greg’s last summer at Alex Fiord. He has been coming here since 1980 and his long-term warming experiment has been running since 1992, making it the longest-running warming experiment in the Arctic. This year, he will finally be able to conduct the final piece of […]
The research base at Alexandra Fiord has been made possible due to an old RCMP station that was built back in the 1950s. The buildings at Alexandra Fiord were put up by the Canadian Government in order to secure sovereignty across the Canadian Arctic, and involved relocating Inuit families from […]
When we first arrived at Alexandra Fiord, we landed on the sea ice with skis on our Twin Otter plane. Upon touching down, the skis went deep into the snowpack that covered the sea ice. As we stepped out, we dropped into more than a meter of snow and started […]
After 6 incredible weeks of science and adventures of the midnight sun with Greg and the Tundra Ecology Lab, Jakob and I had to say goodbye and head back down south. Flying in the north really gives you a sense of just how massive Canada is – it took us […]
