Tyler Llewellyn

Tyler Llewellyn

Tyler is a 2008 alumnus of the Polaris Project. Tyler came to the project from Western Washington University and worked on a research project studying lake drainage and biogeochemistry.

Tyler’s journal: July 23, 2008
While I learned a lot about science on this project, discussions such as the ones I had earlier today seem to be just as important and influential to me and my future.  Prior to this experience, I knew nothing about the research funding process, had only a vague idea about how graduate school functions, and understood very little about how scientists work and thus how science is done.  However, numerous discussions with PIs at different points along the trip, with today being a day full of interaction, have really opened my eyes to the world of science.  I believe that this communication will likely have more of an impact on my career as a scientist than the science learned from this project itself; which is hard to believe since I have had more hands-on scientific experience in the last three weeks on this project than my last three years in college.

Journals

  • Outreach in Wilbur

    I had the opportunity yesterday to give three class presentations at the junior high and high school I attended in my hometown of Wilbur, Washington.  I spoke with a wide range of students, from the 7th grade science class to the high school chemistry class.  All of the students were very interested in what I [...]

    • By Tyler Llewellyn
    • March 27, 2009

  • A Journey Back to the Pleistocene!

    July 18, 2008 Today we went on an excursion to Pleistocene Park, Sergei Zimov’s largest experiment.  The park consists of roughly 40,000 acres of forest, shrubland, lakes, streams, and if Sergei has his way, grasslands.  At the park there is a cabin that houses two people that work at the park, various outbuildings to store equipment, and [...]

    • By Tyler Llewellyn
    • July 18, 2008

  • Coring Trees and Scaling Fish

    July 12,  2008 Waking up early to help Sudeep organize his chlorophyll data, Kate and Boyd were busy analyzing and differentiating the data based on date and lake samples in the hopes of creating a baseline for samples taken this year as a part of the Polaris Project. It was great to finally have seen the [...]

    • By Tyler Llewellyn
    • July 12, 2008

  • Здравствуите из Якутска!

    We arrived in Yakutsk around 10 am yesterday due to a plane delay in Moscow.  While the flight was technically a “red-eye”, it never was dark during its 6 hour duration.  In order to retrieve our baggage, a ticket had to be shown for each bag (a system drastically different from the United States).  We [...]

    • By Tyler Llewellyn
    • July 08, 2008