Alice's Adventures

So yesterday was cold, rainy, blowing like snot, and I’ve been low-key pining for apple cider since last fall, so I went out into the weather and bought some apples. Turns out cider is very boring to make – throw apples and tiny chunk of orange in pot covered in water, with misc spices, simmer […]

so technically the whales were on Wednesday, and this post was supposed to go up yesterday (I was working on a project this week backwriting an abstract given a paper we read, hence the delay), but due to mysterious technical issues, I guess it’s going up today. Our professor for Marine Ecology is a whale […]

This one is mostly going to be astronomy and graphs. I’m not at such a latitude (or such a time of year) that the sun hasn’t been setting; the sun has dipped below the horizon once every 24 hours I’ve been here, but there’s a wrinkle in how ‘night’ is defined, in part because there […]

email excerpt: I can only relay one of the coolest things that happened in class on Wednesday: there are chunks of the ocean that have roughly the right proportion of the major nutrients for life except for iron, and there’s a theory that as there used to be many more whales, the whales used to […]

(this is a couple days post hoc, but I had to write a paper about soil erosion and sheep farming in the meantime) I went to bed kinda late on Thursday, and as I was walking from the main hotel (the only bit with wifi) to the separate buildings that had our rooms in them, […]

Rabbit Rabbit! I’m in a slightly different middle of nowhere part of the Westfjords today. We had a field trip to get tours of two businesses that we have been talking about for the last couples days in class; a sustainable fish farming place and misc diving and fish farming support place. But first we […]