Anya Suslova
Anya is a 2008 alumna of the Polaris Project. Anya came to the project from Yakutsk State University and worked on a research project surveying watershed chemistry and biology.
Anya’s journal: 15 July 2008
Sergey gave us a lecture, and it was most incredible think that I ever heard! He said: "You think that real nature is trees and birds, and you must save them, but it is not true. Trees grow here illegally! This is real nature (and he pointed to the grass) this grass was here thousand years ago when here were big animals, but people killed them and all this disappeared. Now permafrost is melting, so grass that was in fridge for thousand years is penetrating"
Anya’s journal: 21 July 2008
Today we slept in Tundra! In the morning I was with stream group. The stream that we measured was very different from streams we saw before. It looked like small connected lakes. These small “lakes” were very deep, I had a 2m stick, I didn’t reach the bottom with it.