Matt Moroney

Matt Moroney

Matt is a 2011 participant of the Polaris Project. He attends Western Washington University.

Journals

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    Eight more time zones to go

    We wait in Domodedovo, one of Moscow’s many airports, after traveling 8 time zones in three days.

    • By Matt Moroney
    • July 29, 2011
  • Laurel uses a funnel and glass vials to collect samples of methane bubbling up from the bottom of a stream. Tracking the methane coming out of lakes and streams is a key part of accounting for Arctic carbon stocks. © Becky Tachihara

    Is that a fish rising? No…

    In the bowl of this Siberian thermokarst lake, surrounded by rich green of moss shrubs and boreal forest, methane rises far more often than fish.

    • By Matt Moroney
    • July 21, 2011
  • Our home here in Siberia is a barge on the Panteleikha River. This is where we will eat, sleep and relax after long days in the field or lab doing science. © Becky Tachihara

    Science playground

    This place, with its foundation of Pleistocene (the time period before the last ice age, around 40,000 years ago) permafrost, is a science playground.

    • By Matt Moroney
    • July 10, 2011