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  • Arctic inspiration

    Posted by Becky Tachihara on July 21, 2011

    Today I went out with Ludda to a hill slope running down to a stream we call “Y4.” She was taking additional measurements to add to the data she…


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  • Unnamed Territory

    Posted by Emily Sturdivant on July 21, 2011

    Today we named three lakes and a stream. In the arctic research version of a naming ceremony (lacking red ribbons, giant scissors, and popping champagne), we had bug shirts,…


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  • Just a Matter of Time

    Posted by Dallas Murphy on July 20, 2011

    The balance of evidence suggests a discernable human influence on global climate. Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change (IPCC), Second Assessment Report, 1995. There is new and stronger evidence that…


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  • Summers can also be cold

    Posted by Juan Carlos Ortega on July 20, 2011

    It was a normal day, but as soon as breakfast was finished, the first raindrops started to fall. Although not many drops were falling, the whole sky turned gray….


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  • Collect, Process, Analyze, Repeat

    Posted by Dylan Broderick on July 18, 2011


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  • Counting Carbon

    Posted by Allison Stringer on July 17, 2011

    It’s hard to believe that we’ve passed the half way mark for our trip. Constant sunlight plays tricks with the mind. One day seems like two or three, and…


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  • Duvannyi Yar, Part Two

    Posted by Dallas Murphy on July 15, 2011

    We landed on the riverbank near the mouth of a shallow stream and stepped gingerly ashore onto soft, ancient mud.  Dissolved organic carbon samples collected last year by Polaris…


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  • Duvannyi Yar, Part One

    Posted by Dallas Murphy on July 15, 2011

    “Let’s gather, everyone, on the front of the barge for a safety talk,” Max called. The morning was cool, still, and buggy after a cold, windy night, the Kolyma glassy…


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  • A Norwegian in Siberia

    Posted by Eirik Henriksen on July 15, 2011

    It is now eleven days  since we arrived at the barge and I’ve had time to let the first impressions sink in. Travelling from Tromsø in northern Norway, I…


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  • A Life Changing Experience

    Posted by Juan Carlos Ortega on July 12, 2011

    Is it possible that I will ever forget those two days that influenced the road of my life so much? Everything started in a study session of my friend’s…


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  • The First Puerto Ricans in Cherskiy

    Posted by Michael Gomez on July 12, 2011

    ¿Alguna vez has sentido ser probablemente,  el primero de tu país en llegar algún lugar?  Ese fue el sentimiento más emocionante que he tenido en mi vida, ya que…


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  • Cherskiy through the lens

    Posted by Becky Tachihara on July 10, 2011

    Cherskiy, the Northeast Science Station, and the barge through the lens of Becky Tachihara.


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  • Science and swimming and bugs, oh my!

    Posted by Becky Tachihara on July 10, 2011

    Hi everybody! Sorry it has taken me so long to get anything posted on here; we had no internet for the first few days and now the internet we…


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  • Science playground

    Posted by Matt Moroney on July 10, 2011

    Greetings from Northeast Siberia.  I am in Cherskiy, where ruins of Soviet expansion litter our sampling sites. Just centimeters underground, the soil is frozen for decades on end.  In…


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  • Bushwhacking for science

    Posted by Eli Rhoades on July 10, 2011

    Privyet! Hello to everyone back home and elsewhere. I am sure that you are all happy to know that we are alive and well, thriving even. I am working…


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