We have been cooling our heels in Resolute for three days now. I am clean, have eaten 9 real meals and more or less adjusted to civilization – even if […]
Devon Island
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Keith Cowing’s Devon Island Journal 21 July 2003: Departure – and One Last Dedication
I had one last thing to do before I left Devon Island. I stood on the runway and watched the Twin Otter, on which I would soon depart, swoop in […]
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Keith Cowing’s Devon Island Journal 20 July 2003: Arctic Memorials and Starship Yearnings
Today I went out on an unusual traverse on Devon Island. Leading the way was Haughton–Mars Project (HMP) Principal Investigator Pascal Lee. Following him was “Qimmiq”, our polar bear guide […]
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Keith Cowing’s Devon Island Journal 19 July 2003: Illness, Good Food, and Morale
I got sick a few days after arrival. Dysentery. As is often the case here, you just ignore a lot of things that you’d use as an excuse to take […]
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Keith Cowing’s Devon Island Journal 17 July 2003: Rover Arrival
Today is the day. After a traverse across Devon Island The HMP’s Mars-1 Humvee rover is due to arrive in Base Camp later today. Earlier this season the rover was […]
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Keith Cowing’s Devon Island Journal 13 July 2003: Very, Very Old Dirt
Finally, some cool/cold weather. Last night, just after dinner, we started to see clouds moving in from the West. They brought a drop in temperatures and a noticeable increase in […]
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Keith Cowing’s Devon Island Journal 12 July 2003: Fixing Things
Yesterday I wrote about interactions between Devon Island and people elsewhere. These interactions usually have to do with technical issues we need to surmount.
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Keith Cowing’s Devon Island Journal 11 July 2003: Staying in Touch
Once again I awoke to a nice fall day in the Eastern US – with the exception that I am in the Canadian high arctic in July. From what we […]
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Keith Cowing’s Devon Island Journal 9 July 2003: Re-connected; Planting Seeds
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 […]