Sublimity…

Today marked the end of my ‘summer’ job with POLARIS in Ottawa, and since I’d finished everything I needed to do already, the only thing left for me on my last day at work was to show up for the traditional ‘good-bye lunch’ where the members of the GSC’s Electromagnetic and Seismic Investigation Division (which [...]

With it now being September (where has the summer gone?!?) I realized that I have only 3 weeks of work left here in Ottawa. I had a meeting with my supervisor on Friday to show him the results of the data analysis I’ve been working on all summer while here in Ottawa, and it went [...]

Yesterday was an amazing day, in both good and not so good ways. Since Calvin and JP came up to join Dave and I here at Aviat Camp on Tuesday, we’ve been working our tails off installing these POLARIS seismic monitoring stations in their new homes around the Melville Peninsula. We’ve gotten into a steady [...]

Another day, another story – from yet another location, which is as I’m sure you all know by know Iglulik (turns out they spell it with a ‘u’ instead of ‘oo’ on the town signs, so that’s what I’ll use from now on. Good old bastardizing of the Inuvialuit language…) I left Ottawa early Thursday [...]

The Yellowknife airport is beginning to feel like home, I’ve been out there at least once ever day since I came back from Snap Lake on Thursday, and most days have spent at least several hours out there. Given my love of planes, I’m certainly not complaining about this, in fact it’s been great. Thursday [...]