What’s up in Greenland? The sun, for one thing — 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.
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!
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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.
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?
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.
That’s so exciting! I wish I could do something like that someday.
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!
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*
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.
I am the Beloved of the Mosquitos. And the Spiders. I have an infected bite. It ruptured and pus went all over my arm!
I am blessed. Mosquitos usually only bite me if there is no one else around. I still have a few bites though…
10 – Rawr.
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.
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.
13-Travel Writing is awesome!
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What are B-Day and KAG points?
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.
24…hours…A DAY?!
17- I’d really like to go to the polar regions someday and experience that, you know. 24 hours of constant daylight.
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.
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.