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Summer in Greenland

What’s up in Greenland? The sun, for one thing â€” it’s shining 24 hours a day. And two of Robert’s and Rosanne’s friends, Mary Miller and Lisa Strong-Aufhauser, have just arrived there to document life among scientists in Greenland for the Exploratorium museum in San Francisco and its Web site: http://icestories.exploratorium.edu/

Mary says “so follow along on the adventure and send me comments.” She and Lisa are armed with great curiosity about the giant calving glacier and possibly even greater curiosity about how they’ll fare in their coming battle against the mosquitoes.

How to send Mary comments: Visit her Exploratorium blog, The Accidental Scientist.

Date: July 8, 2008

Author: Rosanne Spector (Administrator)

Categories: Random craziness

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ï£¿ Â¡Red-tailed HAWK! ï£¿ [6,937 piepoints Â©, 16 spdzk points and 22 KAG points] ï¿½|ï¿½

in July 8th, 2008 @ 11:23

Wow, this is neat.

I will be very interested to hear how your adventure goes!

Good luck with the mosquitoes. I thought they were bad here, I’d hate to see them any worse!

Red-tailed HAWK

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Kokonilly

in July 8th, 2008 @ 11:28

Mosquitoes? *pops up and looks about* The mosquitoes are terrible in the Philippines. You have to put on Off! inside.

But, seriously, Greenland looks neat. I would love to go there.

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Alice

in July 8th, 2008 @ 11:46

My dad kayaks a Greenland style boat. He can also do all these fancy rolls…
I occasionally kayak a Greenland style boat, and I use the paddle, and I can probably maybe do a butterfly roll.
Which I can’t pronounce. What’s “butterfly” in Greenlandic?

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Beatlesrockr(10piepoints)&Hiejayko and JOHN

in July 8th, 2008 @ 11:52

Mosquitoes are not really attracted to me that much, though i still hate them… ever since I saw that extreme animals show on animal planet about how those bloodsuckers killed more people than people killed each other in some war (I forgot which) by Malaria and such.It’ll be interesting to see how your adventure turns out.

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Mogget's Little Sister (AKA Kyra)

in July 8th, 2008 @ 12:22

That’s so exciting! I wish I could do something like that someday.

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Eccentric the Afterthought (+200 pie points & 7 KAG points)

in July 8th, 2008 @ 13:13

Sounds like my dream job! I’ll definitely be looking forward to hearing more about it. I didn’t know Greenland had mosquitoes; those pesky things are everywhere these days!

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Kokonilly

in July 8th, 2008 @ 13:26

Mosquitoes love me. I’m not kidding. And I’m more allergic than the average person, so it swells up a lot and itches. In fact, I think I have a mosquito bite on my arm right now. *resists the urge to scratch* *scratches anyway*

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Cat's Meow

in July 8th, 2008 @ 14:14

Mosquitos love me too. I just barely got over the ones from my great-aunt’s 85th birthday party when I got tons more at the National Zoo.

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The Bookworm & Lurline (410 piepoints and two B-Day Points and 42 KAG Points!)

in July 8th, 2008 @ 14:40

I am the Beloved of the Mosquitos. And the Spiders. I have an infected bite. It ruptured and pus went all over my arm!

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Ê‘yviva

in July 8th, 2008 @ 16:46

I am blessed. Mosquitos usually only bite me if there is no one else around. I still have a few bites though…

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Cat's Meow

in July 8th, 2008 @ 16:59

10 – Rawr.

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Beatlesrockr(10piepoints)&Hiejayko and JOHN

in July 8th, 2008 @ 16:59

Dream Job, oh yes.
My grandpa’s a scientist too. He gets to go EVERYWHERE! I swear, the only places he hasn’t been on this planet, is Madagascar, the Arctic, and Antarctica. He has a meeting in Turkey in October, “Should I cancel it? I have another meeting in Australia too, and I’ve been there 4 times already,” then in September he has at least 3 other trips.

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Eccentric the Afterthought (+180 pie points & 7 KAG points)

in July 9th, 2008 @ 14:06

7 – Same here. I went outside for five minutes last night and came back inside with ten new bites. Grrr!

12 – Awesome! Unfortunately I could never be a scientist – I have no aptitude whatsoever for math or science – but maybe I’ll be a travel writer someday.

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The Bookworm & Lurline (410 piepoints and two B-Day Points and 42 KAG Points!)

in July 9th, 2008 @ 19:25

13-Travel Writing is awesome!

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Brendan The Science Whiz/Fforde Ffan (37 Brain Points)

in July 12th, 2008 @ 09:18

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What are B-Day and KAG points?

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Vixen in the Eyes of the Moon

in July 20th, 2008 @ 13:57

My mom’s been to greenland with her job before. They went their with some of their deaf clients, apperently danes don’t need visas to get into greenland.

*sighs* I wish greenland wasn’t connected to denmark.

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Princess_Magnolia

in April 18th, 2010 @ 20:28

24…hours…A DAY?!

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KaiYves- Nice Flying, Poindexter!

in April 19th, 2010 @ 07:44

17- I’d really like to go to the polar regions someday and experience that, you know. 24 hours of constant daylight.

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Princess_Magnolia

in April 19th, 2010 @ 14:34

I read about this study someone did that said that constant sunlight actually increased the number of suicides in an area with lots of sun.

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Selenium the Quafflebird

in April 19th, 2010 @ 07:55

What I would like to see are the Northern Lights – the aurora borealis. Somehow I feel that the real thing wouldn’t quite compare to any video of it. And of course, that 24h constant daylight thing would be awesome as well.

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ï£¿ Â¡Red-tailed HAWK! ï£¿ [6,937 piepoints Â©, 16 spdzk points and 22 KAG points] ï¿½|ï¿½

Kokonilly

Alice

Beatlesrockr(10piepoints)&Hiejayko and JOHN

Mogget's Little Sister (AKA Kyra)

Eccentric the Afterthought (+200 pie points & 7 KAG points)

Kokonilly

Cat's Meow

The Bookworm & Lurline (410 piepoints and two B-Day Points and 42 KAG Points!)

Ê‘yviva

Cat's Meow

Beatlesrockr(10piepoints)&Hiejayko and JOHN

Eccentric the Afterthought (+180 pie points & 7 KAG points)

The Bookworm & Lurline (410 piepoints and two B-Day Points and 42 KAG Points!)

Brendan The Science Whiz/Fforde Ffan (37 Brain Points)

Vixen in the Eyes of the Moon

Princess_Magnolia

KaiYves- Nice Flying, Poindexter!

Princess_Magnolia

Selenium the Quafflebird

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