By: Andrea Sparrow Days aboard a ship can be difficult to parse afterwards. Routine gives structure to time, but around you the land and weather are constantly shifting. In Svalbard this seems particularly true. For a time the land will present itself as gentle hills, covered in stone, snow and ice. Around a corner a …

By: Bruce Vaughn- Fellow at University of Colorado/ Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research Often these days we hear that we live in interesting times.  Indeed we do, but this is also a truly critical time.  Never before has it been more obvious that our current actions will most certainly determine our fate in the …