http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/Ocean-lady/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Ocean lady en-us Mon, 07 Dec 2009 12:10:01 +0000 Mon, 07 Dec 2009 12:10:01 +0000 Tuk http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/Northwest-Territories/Inuvik/blog-193548.html Delta Survey http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/Northwest-Territories/Inuvik/blog-188910.html The end of the road music festival http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/Northwest-Territories/Inuvik/blog-193544.html I did not get as many photos of this festival as I wanted to but I did get many videos of the drummers This was the 19th Great Northern Arts festival held in Inuvik NWT. This is a world class event that showcases the north northernart and artists to the world The festival brings people together to celebrate the art and to pass on their individual skills and traditions. There is a gallery set http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/Northwest-Territories/Inuvik/blog-192391.html What better way to end a day than swimming and boating with friends After work Sean and I took our pals Joana Emily Greg Dan and his friend Ruth out into the delta. And then we took a dip in one of our sample sites Brrrrrrr http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/Northwest-Territories/Inuvik/blog-192380.html Today I got to drive down the Dempster Highway to the Peel River crossing just past Fort Mcpherson with Jolie and Sean. We collected some water samples from the Peel River the Arctic Red and the Mackenzie river. The Dempster Highway is extremely dusty as you can see in my photos It is a one of a kind drive though. Our first stop was to catch the mini ferry across the channel where Arctic http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/Northwest-Territories/Inuvik/blog-185303.html Hello everyone These are some more photos of the town the famous Trapper pub included but only from the outside... There is a photo of one of our big experiments set up outside with all the bugs Speaking of bugs I also included a video on here of the bugs that Sean took when we went out to get some water. You see all those little dots on the screen Yes those are BUGS Enjoy http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/Northwest-Territories/Inuvik/blog-184276.html Wild Saturday night at the Trapper. The Trapper is the local pub in Inuvik and this past Saturday night a talent show was held in the establishment This social event was being held to raise funds for the End of the Road Music festival httpwww.eotrmusic.com held every year in Inuvik mid August so we all went out. I was told it is illegal to take photos inside so I will have to get some pict http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/Northwest-Territories/Inuvik/blog-179874.html Yesterday I arrived in Inuvik NWT The land of the midnight sun For those of you who do not know where that is look at a map you will find me at the top of the world Inuvik is 2 degrees north of the Arctic Circle on the Mackenzie River Delta. The environment as somewhere between the treeless tundra and the northern boreal forest and as I saw from the flight in the is in the middle of an i http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/Northwest-Territories/Inuvik/blog-175292.html Well today was our first field day on the Mackenzie delta and the weather apparently did not know this or maybe it did.... Sue is studying the landscapelevel variation of dissolved organic carbon amoung the delta lakes particularly the effects on food web structure and implications of the future ie global warming. We roared down the silt filled channel in our 16 foot motor boat. Sue says tha http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/Northwest-Territories/Inuvik/blog-175712.html Waves in the channelnbspNorth America raquonbspCanada raquonbspNorthwest Territories raquonbspInuvik By Ocean ladyJuly 1st 2007Sarah Ballard Day 2 in the field Happy Canada Day We missed all the town festivities because we were out on the delta. But from what we heard I probably would have prefered to be out on the delta anyways. We did get cake which a local woman bakes when w http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/Northwest-Territories/Inuvik/blog-176089.html I finally got a chance to tour Our Lady of Victory church better known throughout the western Arctic as the Igloo Church. It is said to be the most photographed building in Inuvik. Which is not surprising considering it is a large circular structure surmounted by a byzantine dome crowned by a cupola topped by a cross in a town of squat rectangular buildings. It is funny that this building see http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/Northwest-Territories/Inuvik/blog-184398.html Today was my first day off in Inuvik Everything about the arctic zone is deeply interesting to me I hardly know where to start my exploring here. So I have started to talk with some local people here to get some ideas of the area. I had a meeting with Ed McLean an ecosystems scientist at the Inuvik parks canada office. He gave me some great leads for graduate supervisors that are doing marine http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/Northwest-Territories/Inuvik/blog-178149.html Today Sue and I did our sampling from helicopter floats Such an adventure. Some of the lakes Sue has included in her study are more isolated than the ones we have been using the canoe on and would be a 45 min hike dragging the canoe through the forest to get to them. So helicopter is our mode of transportation. Helicopters are soooooo expensive Luckly the Lesack lab has a grant for helicopter t http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/Northwest-Territories/Inuvik/blog-177023.html