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Congratulations to Claire Griffin!
Claire Griffin (Polaris 2009) has just been awarded a prestigious and highly-competitive NSF Graduate Research Fellowship for her proposal titled “Organic Matter in Large Arctic Rivers from Field and…
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A lot of 2012 applications
The 2012 deadline has passed and we received applications for this year’s field course from dozens of different universities. The folks that are going to review these have their…
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Equipment at the Northeast Science Station
The Kolyma River watershed is one of earth’s most important regions because of the vast amount of ancient carbon currently stored in its permafrost. The Northeast Science Station, near…
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Student Impact video
In 2009, eleven undergraduates traveled more than halfway around the world to conduct cutting-edge investigations that advance scientific understanding of the changing Arctic. Four of the students: Blaize Denfeld…
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Science on Ice
After five hard years of work, Science on Ice: Four Polar Expeditions, my first hardcover photography book, is now in print. Before I began documenting the Polaris Project, I…
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Polaris Project at SACNAS
The Polaris Project had an information and recruitment booth at the recent SACNAS conference in San Jose, California. The mission of SACNAS, the Society for the Advancement of Native…
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Dallas and Kate in the Denmark Strait
I just got a nice note from 2010 Polaris student Kate Lewis who was writing from Reykjavik harbor. Kate graduated from WWU and has been working at the…
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Claire Griffin Publishes Her Polaris Project Research
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…
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Max Wilbert Wins Journalism Award
Max Wilbert, a recent graduate from Western Washington University and a participant in the 2010 Polaris Project field course, has just won a national competition for his article “Siberian…
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Erin Seybold Awarded Fulbright
Erin Seybold, a senior at St. Olaf College and a participant in the 2009 and 2010 Polaris Project field courses, has been awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to study in…
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Heather Alexander Awarded NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship
Heather Alexander, one of the five 2010 Polaris Project “Affiliates” (see Team page), has been awarded a prestigious NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship to continue her work on the boreal forest…
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Polaris 2011 Students Selected
Fourteen undergraduate students have been selected to participate in the summer 2011 Polaris Project field course / research experience in the Siberian Arctic. Though we had to decline many…
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Apply Now for Summer 2011
Undergraduate students interested in participating in the Polaris Project Siberian field course should complete their application by February 20, 2011. To be eligible to…
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2010 Photos
After pointless and senseless delay we have updated the photos page with a subset of the 2010 photos…
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Polaris Project on NPR
Max Holmes was recently interviewed about the Polaris Project for the 30-minute NPR radio show “The Point”. The interview was broadcast on Tuesday, September 14, on WCAI. It has…
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