On any given day there are almost always IMCS scientists engaged in field work at sea, up a river, or on the ice. These field expeditions are a fundamental part of how marine science is done, and in the web pages here IMCS scientists record day-to-day activities of their field work as a web log. Science is not a body of facts that one must memorize, but an ongoing process that seeks new, better, more coherent ways of understanding the world.  By reading the IMCS scientist blogs here we show show...