Here are the latest photos from Barrow (as of January 21, 2005):

On the way up here we spent a night in Anchorage, and these photos were taken looking out from our hotel:

We have three locations that we are working at: Phil is set up in a lab at NARL, the balloon is in the Air Force hangar just north of NARL, and Adam and I have automated air sampling instruments located about 10 miles out of town, at the base of the AM radio tower (KBRW) that serves Barrow and some of the surrounding villages. Right now I only have photos of the tower shed, but I'll get some of Phils lab and the hangar soon.

As I mentioned on the blog, we we able to get help hauling all of our equipment to the tower by Tom Opi and his Swedish-made Hagglunds track truck. Here are some photos of that:

We also had to haul 2 large dewers full of liquid nitrogen out to the shed. They weigh around 500 pounds each, so they got loaded onto wooden sleds and towed to the shed behind snowmachines.

Here are a couple of photos of the inside of our shed out at the tower, now that we are mostly unpacked. We would just like to point out how incredibly safe we are, with our first aid kit, light kit, emergency blankets, exit sign and fire extinguisher (and the shotgun to keep the polar bears from eating us for lunch)!

These are some random shots that I took outside of the tower shed. They were taken on a couple of different days, and you'll notice that in some of the later ones the sun is just peeking over the horizon (that was on Thursday, Jan 20). This was the first sunrise of the year!

Here are few photos of where we are staying here at NARL.

Adam got pretty windburnt on his nose on the first day out, and I got frostbite on both cheeks after we had been here a couple of days (notice that one side is a circle, and the other side is a triangle; I'm not quite sure how that happened)!

And finally, to show that we are actually doing work up here, this is photographic evidence that we really are doing snow chemistry!