Kayla is a 2009 participant of the Polaris Project. She attends Western Washington University where she studies Environmental Science. Kayla is from Spokane Washington. She is studying insects in the streams and lakes of the Kolyma River basin. Very little is known about the invertebrates that live in the Arctic and her data will be some of the first to describe the variety of life in high latitude waters.
Our time on the barge is getting closer to an end and I thought I would try to express some of the little things that characterize our home. The first thing is the breeze. The breeze on your face feels great on a warm day clears the air of any pesky mosquitoes. Taking a boat [...]
Yesterday, Blaize, Max and Kayla sampled for macroinvertebrates at Shuchi or Pike Lake. Max got an immediate boot full of water as soon as we got down to the lake and was a little bit grumpy the rest of the time. The substrate is like quick sand, and we had to constantly wiggle ourselves free. [...]