Today is our last day at Skalanes. We have spent 10 amazing days doing science, hiking around and boating. We have made great memories together and enjoyed every bit of these moments! We started our day by packing all our … Read More
Bio Team Update We completed all the soil extractions yesterday and the samples are prepared for transport back to Earlham. Now that we are done with soil, it is now on to water sampling. A contingent of students were trained … Read More
Today was our free day to explore Seydisfjordur. To start off our day, we visited the archeological site located in the town where an archeology team is working on excavating a discovered longhouse. The longhouse consisted of the main living … Read More
The weather was rainy and foggy out at Skalanes today, so we focused on tasks that would let us stay inside. We finished processing all of the soil samples taken in previous days, sorted and cleaned the soil sampling materials, … Read More
Today was our third full day at Skálanes and our final day of taking soil samples in the field! A group of us spent most of the day hiking to the top of one of the mountains to reach our … Read More
1st Day at Skalanes We started out the day by hiking a little ways and taking a soil sample with the help of Emmett. Afterwards we took off by ourselves to take soil samples up the mountain. Unfortunately, finding the … Read More
Today was a travel-packed day, as we made our way to our research location in Skalanes. Our morning consisted of packing and saying our farewells to the beautiful city of Reykjavik. We then caught a plane to EGS in the … Read More
Today was our second full day in Skalanes! Our task of the day was to collect five soil samples located around the Arctic tern colony next to the house. While most of us went out into the field to collect … Read More
We visited a geothermal power-plant, saw a large waterfall, and went to Þingvellir. It was our tourist-spot day. The sky was overcast-to-sprinkling all day, so everyone got damp to some degree, especially during the waterfall visit. The spray was far-reaching. … Read More
After a restful night and a healthy breakfast, we were ready to start the second day of our trip in Reykjavik. While some of us preferred to go downtown for shopping and visiting, others took the bus to go hiking. … Read More