Author: Geoff Carroll

Geoff Carroll, Area Wildlife Biologist for Alaska's Department of Fish and Game looks after the animals in a 56,000 sq mile region on the North Slope. He talks about his love of the Arctic, the sea ice, and his passion for sled dogs, and his early work with on the bowhead whale census. He also tells a few tales about polar bears and muskox. In 1986, he accompanied Will Steger on a National Geographic sponsored 56-day dog sled expedition to the North Pole.

Muskox on the North Slope

Wildlife biologist Geoff Carroll in Barrow, Alaska, talks about the extirpation and reintroduction of muskox on the North Slope.

Sled Dogs

Geoff Carroll, area wildlife biologist for Alaska’s Dept of Fish and Game, hitches up his sled dogs. After taking his sled out onto the ocean ice, Geoff talks a little about Greenland Huskies like the ones he took to the North Pole with Will Steger in 1986.

To the North Pole

In 1986 Geoff helped Will Steger and others reach the North Pole by sled. In the first month they had only gone 100 miles and soon had to shed a great amount of gear in order to reach the pole. From years of working with the Inupiaq Eskimos Geoff knew the ice conditions and helped […]

Keeping An Eye On Land Mammals Of The North Slope

Longtime resident of Utquiagvik and former Alaska area biologist for Alaska’s Department of Fish and Game talks about some of the changes in animal life and how local folk on the North Slope are adapting in the past fifteen years since we last spoke. He still has his sled dogs and gets out on the […]