Claire is a 2009 participant of the Polaris Project. She attends Clark University where she majors in Physical Geography. Claire is from Austin Texas. She is working on a project that calibrates images from satellites to data collected on the ground. Claire has a special interest in the connections between rivers and lakes across the landscape.
Claire Griffin (Polaris 2009) has just been awarded a prestigious NSF Graduate Research Fellowship to support her PhD research on organic matter in large arctic rivers.
In January 2008, Claire Griffin (a sophomore at Clark University) applied for the inaugural Polaris Project expedition. She was accepted. Unfortunately, one month before leaving, Claire fell off a horse and broke her arm, ending her chance to be part of the 2008 field course. But Claire persevered. She reapplied in 2009 and was again [...]
It was really great going to the State of the Arctic conference this past week, re-connecting with all the Polaris folks, presenting our research, and meeting some of the leaders in arctic climate change research. We each had posters discussing our projects and got some great feedback from the other attendees. My research project stemming [...]
I am, as Karen can attest to, a fairly indecisive person when it comes to my future. I worry a lot about whether I’m making the right choice, the what-ifs and alternative possibilities always seeming like they might be just as good. The Polaris Project has helped me make some of these decisions that I’ve [...]
Today, we finally headed off to further north then even Cherskiy. We’ve been trying to get out there for a few days, but the weather had been bad. Today dawned bright and beautiful, so after a quick breakfast we packed into four small boats and headed off to the Kolyma estuary. This was by far [...]
I’m the resident student geographer on the barge, so my background and project are a little different than the majority of the ecologists here at the Northeast Science Station. Water is a huge part of the Arctic and the landscape is covered with streams, rivers, lakes and ponds. There’s no way to be able to [...]
Hello Everyone! We’re well on our way to Cherskiy, although not quite there yet. We’re in Yakutsk now, finally somewhat rested and ready for the day. We haven’t had the chance to really do any science yet and only briefly discussed what sort of work we’ll be doing in Cherskiy, but one thing that I’ve [...]