Editor’s Selections: Warring Incans, Deception, and the Alaskan Highway
Ed Note: Part of my online life includes editorial duties at ResearchBlogging.org, where I serve as the Social Sciences Editor. Each Thursday, I pick notable posts on research in anthropology, philosophy, social science, and research to share on the ResearchBlogging.org News site. To help highlight this writing, I also share my selections here on AiP. [...]
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Mystery of Alaskan “Goo” Rust Solved at Last
February 29th, 2012 |
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Last fall the small Alaskan coastal village of Kivalina was inundated by a mysterious orange “goo”(click for photo). Locals and others suspected a toxic algal bloom (see here for image), or perhaps some sort of chemical release, or millions of microscopic “crustacean eggs”. Yet just a month later the mystery substance was identified as none [...]
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Ode to the lowly tussock
July 1st, 2010 |
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Editor’s Note: Vienna, Austria-based science writer Chelsea Wald is taking part in a two-week Marine Biological Laboratory journalism fellowship at Toolik Field Station, an environmental research post inside the Arctic Circle. To see the current conditions in Toolik, check out the Webcam. Walking over Eriophorum, Watch your step of you’ll fall off ‘em. –Benjamin Shaw, [...]
Keep reading »Adventures in Alaskan science: How I escaped from a thermokarst
June 26th, 2010 |
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Editor’s Note: Vienna, Austria-based science writer Chelsea Wald is taking part in a two-week Marine Biological Laboratory journalism fellowship at Toolik Field Station, an environmental research post inside the Arctic circle. To see the current conditions in Toolik, check out the Webcam. I was nearly eaten by a thermokarst. I just stepped in and, before [...]
Keep reading »Alaskan science on the solstice: Doing research where the sun never sets
Editor’s Note: Vienna, Austria-based science writer Chelsea Wald is taking part in a two-week Marine Biological Laboratory journalism fellowship at Toolik Field Station, an environmental research post inside the Arctic circle. To see the current conditions in Toolik, check out the Webcam. I packed my flashlight. That’s really stupid. I’m above the Arctic Circle near [...]
Keep reading »Science, pipelines and bears: A reporter goes to Alaska’s Toolik Field Station
June 16th, 2010 |
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Editor’s Note: Vienna, Austria-based science writer Chelsea Wald is taking part in a two-week Marine Biological Laboratory journalism fellowship at Toolik Field Station, an environmental research post inside the Arctic circle. To see the current conditions in Toolik, check out the Webcam. VIENNA, AUSTRIA, June 14, 2010—It just dawned on me that in two days [...]
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