Finally, all administrative problems were solved (although I still keep my fingers crossed until I receive them in person) and the samples from Barrow should be on their way to Montreal today. With a bit of luck (and the skills of UPS) they should be here by Thursday.
I have been constantly in touch with the researcher, who has collected the samples for my and it was a good experience. He has collected quite a few samples for me (although not as many as I had hoped for, due to the circumstances he encountered at Point Barrow – c’est la vie). Anyway I am looking forward to receiving some frost flower samples (together with snow samples) for analysis of VOC. That is going to be interesting.
