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Fish in the TOAS Pool
With snow conditions predicted to degrade rapidly after today, we set out for the TOAS pool to retrieve our vertical fish antenna and any...
Heidi E Golden
May 9, 20161 min read
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Staging the I-Minus
With warm weather predicted for the North Slope, our snow pack and frozen lakes and rivers won’t last much longer. In anticipation of...
Heidi E Golden
May 7, 20162 min read
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Awaiting the Thaw
After tuning a fish tracking antenna on Oksrukuyik Creek, we flew over the Kuparuk River on our way to the I-Minus outlet stream,...
Heidi E Golden
May 7, 20161 min read
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Down the Ice Hole
Surprised by thick, dense ice atop our TOAS1 pool three day ago, we discovered that this location behaves more like a lake than a spring...
Heidi E Golden
May 6, 20162 min read
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Where the Moose and the Caribou Play
Flying out again over pristine white snow and feeling slightly spoiled by more captivating views, I secretly wished to capture images...
Heidi E Golden
May 5, 20162 min read
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Subtle Signs of Spring
Preparing to monitor fish movement patterns this season means tending antennas along our rivers prior to ice-out, when spring melt waters...
Heidi E Golden
May 4, 20162 min read
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Fishing the TOAS Pool
Decked in waders and sporting seines and dip nets, we take to land via snow machine, headed for the TOAS pool. We first stumbled upon...
Heidi E Golden
May 3, 20162 min read
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Helo Ridin’
After an exceptionally early spring thaw last year, which prevented us from reaching many of our research sites via snow machine, the NSF...
Heidi E Golden
May 2, 20162 min read
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I-Minus Outlet Stream
Visiting our sites while the Arctic still clings to winter provides important insights for our research, particularly factors that might...
Heidi E Golden
May 1, 20162 min read
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Oks Springs in the Spring
In the Arctic, where tundra streams often freeze solid in winter, spring locations might provide an overwintering refuge for fish and...
Heidi E Golden
Apr 30, 20162 min read
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Leaf-Out in April
Year two of field work for our three year NSF funded grant exploring adaptation of Arctic grayling to climate change started in...
Heidi E Golden
Apr 29, 20162 min read
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Hab. Ass. in the Rain
As much needed rain fell steadily through the night and into the day, thirsty plants on the dehydrated landscape slurped up the water...
Heidi E Golden
Jul 20, 20152 min read
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Let the fishing begin!
With 20 fish antennas deployed across three watersheds, the real fun begins! In order to track fish movement, these fish tracking...
Heidi E Golden
Jul 18, 20152 min read
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Bone Dry
Cam and I collected water chemistry samples at locations along each of our three study watersheds, but this year water seems as difficult...
Heidi E Golden
Jul 12, 20151 min read
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YOY to the World!
After building two more antennas today, Cam, Tom and I discover a school of young-of-the-year larval Arctic grayling swimming in the...
Heidi E Golden
Jul 10, 20151 min read
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Hike to Oks2.5
There’s nothing quite like hiking on the tundra. Tussocks, wet sedge meadows, knee high willows and sucky sphagnum moss, provide...
Heidi E Golden
Jul 9, 20151 min read
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Divide and Conquer! But First… Fog Delay.
Hearing from our pilot, Keaton, that this morning’s pea soup fog would delay our departure to the Oks headwaters provided a break from...
Heidi E Golden
Jul 8, 20152 min read
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Whomping Willows
The I-Minus river system presented challenges unforeseen via Google Earth as we planned our fish passage antenna locations. The IM2...
Heidi E Golden
Jul 7, 20151 min read
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Kuparuk Upper Spring (KUS) Pool
Becca Colby and I traveled to the Kuparuk Upper Spring today to install a fish antenna, which detects tagged fish as they traverse the...
Heidi E Golden
Jul 6, 20151 min read
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YOY Collecting at Happy Valley
For our post 4th of July Sunday morning, we’ve planned to schlepp gear to a few site along two of our rivers, the Kuparuk River and...
Heidi E Golden
Jul 5, 20151 min read
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