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 […]
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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: 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 […]