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| Sphagnum. This was the first time that we saw it in Churchill. |
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| The last, forested site. Kinda pretty minus the millions of mosquitoes |
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| A Sphagnum core from the forested site. You can see how it gets more and more densely packed and humified the further into the core you go. |
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| The transect laid down for our main site |
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| Glen and James working on coring through permafrost with the Russian Auger... This was seconds before it broke. |
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| A core in the "Bog Beaver" or active layer corer. You can see that the bottom of the core is lighter soil/sand. There are shell fragments preserved in the bottom layer. This means that there is a marine layer underlying the peat. Before this area was a peatland it was under water. |
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| Peat close up. Exciting eh? |
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| Picture of the landscape around the peatland. |
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| Oh yeah, exciting field shot. |
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| The Bog Beaver at work. |
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| Close up of the Bog Beaver. |
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| The GPR! |
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| So excited I got it to work! |
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| Taking surface samples. Measuring pH and depth to water table and cutting out the peat. |
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| The lake near where we took surface samples. |
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| The new and improved (and working) auger. |
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| The working permafrost corer. I got to work the drill, oh yeah. |
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| Permafrost core. You can see some solid ice in the bottom of it. |
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| close up of the core. |
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