Measuring Greenhouse Gases in Alaska<br />One of life’s essentials<br />We have no running water here, so one of us brings in five-gallon jugs of water a couple times month for making coffee and for drinking.<br />As told to<br />We spoke with Ross Burgener, a technician at the Barrow Observatory in Utqiagvik, Alaska, about the joys<br />and challenges of working in a remote northern location.<br />I often need to pick up parts and check for incoming flasks or drop our samples off at the post office to be shipped to Boulder, our home base<br />The “Prism” label I slapped on my water bottle is from a company that makes kites, including ones for water-skiing and snowboarding.<br />I track the date the snow starts melting to determine how much time the tundra is exposed each year.
