After some fine-tuning of our satellite system we all have full Internet access. As I mentioned in an earlier journal entry, the task of getting this communications gear in place […]
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Keith Cowing’s Devon Island Journal 8 July 2003: Infrastructure
This weather is unbelievable! If we were having weather like this back home, the local news would open each evening’s newscast with the weather as its top story. Alas, although […]
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Keith Cowing’s Devon Island Journal 7 July 2003: Part 1: Being here – and being there.
Yet another flawless day in the arctic. Blue skies, perfect temperature, and no wind. When the bad weather does hit, the impact is going to be rather profound!
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Keith Cowing’s Devon Island Journal: 6 July 2003: Getting in the Groove
For the fourth day in a row we’ve had stunning weather – people only pull on a sweater or fleece in the evening. Otherwise, it is t-shirt weather for most […]
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Keith Cowing’s Devon Island Journal: 3-5 July 2003: Arrival and Getting to Work
We awoke this morning to some good news: weather conditions here and at Devon Island, plus the condition of our landing strip on Devon Island, were all within acceptable limits. […]
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Keith Cowing’s Devon Island Journal – 3 Jul 2003: Waiting in Resolute
I arrived in Resolute Bay yesterday (Wednesday) after an uneventful (but long) flight from Ottawa. We made one stop along the way, at Iqaluit, the capital of Nunavut. The terminal at […]
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Keith Cowing’s Devon Island Journal – 17 Jun 2003: Preface: Moving from Green to Grey
I live in a world of green. This year it is especially so with all the rain we have been getting in Virginia. Landscaping our yard is still a work […]
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MARS-1 Humvee Rover Reaches Devon Island After Successful Crossing of Frozen Arctic Sea
The Mars Institute today announced that its MARS-1 Humvee rover has reached Devon Island in the Canadian high Arctic after successfully crossing the Wellington Channel, a 23 mile (37 km) […]
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Researchers Uncover Extreme Lake — and 3000-Year-Old Microbes — in a Mars-Like Antarctic Environment
NSF-supported researchers drilling into Lake Vida, an Antarctic “ice-block” lake, have found the lake isn’t really an ice block at all. In the December 16 issue of the Proceedings of the […]