Since monday we are visiting two schools a day! Students are straight and good!!

little more than 30hours of flights, arrived Irkutsk without baggage!

Our snow machine trip movie is little more progress!! enjoy little bit…

Snowmachine 2013

Chena River at Fairbanks, flood warning today! but still seems ok!

I have visit Weller today! their frost depth was 158cm and already thawing upper 25cm!!

Dear Science Teachers and Principals,

Thank you for supporting our program. This is the last newsletter for this semester!  Here is a recent update of our program and related events:

1.  Permafrost and Active layer (Frost Tube) network is now expanded to the Canadian Arctic. Following communities are now in our group: Aklavik, Inuvik, Tuktuyaktuk, Paulatuk, Kugluktuk, Cambridge Bay, Gjoa Haven, Kugaaruk, Taloyoak, Repulse Bay, Hall Beach, Igoolik, Iqaluit. You can find our snowmachine activity through our blog or Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/SnowMobileTripOnArctic
also movie will released next week! Staying tune in our blog site!!

2. Also we will have a photo/movie presentation of this trip planning first week of June at UAF. More info please check: www.uaf.edu/permafrost or contact kyoshikawa@alaska.edu

3. Community based permafrost book “Permafrost in Our Time (2013 edition)” is ready for electrical reviewing. Please check your school/village page. Let me know any corrections or comments. We will have final page proof and printing in this summer, hopefully we will deliver hardcopy each village in this fall!!
http://issuu.com/permafrostbook/docs/pinot2013_67

4. Congratulations!! Students from our Western Siberian community “Novy Urengoy” awarded the frost tube project on the 2^nd Yamal Environmental Forum in April 2013. It will be nice to hear this good news!! We had a US award before, president Obama invited one of the frost tube schools to the Whitehouse as part of science fair. Please let me know any award you had from this program!!

5. Finally, we are middle of the spring logger/frost tube maintenance trips. Please let me know, if you need fixing or talking classroom etc.! Here is rough plan:
May, June: Southern Baikal, South Central Alaska, Interior Alaska, North Slope
June: Southeast & Southwest Alaskan communities
June-July: Aleutians, Bristol Bay area

Again, thank you for your participants.　Have a great summer!!

Amazing!! we are still ski/board on Birch Hill, Fairbanks this afternoon!! Hard to believe only five weeks to summer solstice