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17 AGU Abstracts

Posted by Max Holmes on September 12, 2010

Each December in San Francisco, the American Geophysical Union (AGU) holds the world’s largest scientific conference that focuses on Earth sciences. This year, Polaris Project participants submitted 17 abstracts…

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Sharing Data…

Posted by Max Holmes on July 21, 2010

The three overarching objectives of the Polaris Project are to 1) train the next generation of arctic researchers, 2) advance scientific understanding of the Arctic, and 3) expand public…

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Polaris Project Seminar Series – July 2010

Posted by Max Holmes on July 13, 2010

Though we often refer to this Siberian adventure as a field course, it…

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Look right for tweets…

Posted by Andy Bunn on July 3, 2010

…while the Polaris Project is traveling they will issue updates via twitter. See the list of tweets on the right side of the main blog page or

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We like you. You like us.

Posted by Andy Bunn on June 17, 2010

Hey Facebookers. Take a second to nip over to Facebook and tell the world that you like the Polaris Project. We’ll be doing more with our Facebook…

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Polaris II Proposal Submitted

Posted by Max Holmes on June 12, 2010

The Polaris Project got its start with a proposal submitted to the National Science Foundation (NSF) in March 2007. We learned six months later that the proposal was funded,…

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We’re not going to Siberia, but we’re going to Alaska!

Posted by Boyd Zapatka on May 3, 2010

Hello everyone my name is Claire and this is Boyd. Hi. Claire traveled to Siberia with the research team and Boyd went the summer before and both of us…

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2010 Polaris Project Students Selected

Posted by Max Holmes on March 12, 2010

Though the 2010 Polaris Project field course in Siberia doesn’t begin for over 3 months, preparations are ramping up quickly. We have just finished selecting the 2010 undergraduate participants…

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4 Polaris Students Earn Scholarships to Arctic Conference in Miami

Posted by Max Holmes on March 11, 2010

The State of the Arctic Conference (http://soa.arcus.org) will be held next week in Miami (March 16-19, 2010). This large conference is drawing Arctic scientists from around the world. Twenty-five…

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New applications

Posted by Andy Bunn on February 14, 2010

New applications are rolling in for the summer 2010 field course. I have nothing in particular to add other than that we continue to draw some of the brightest…

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Bugs and Rivers…New Science Stories

Posted by Andy Bunn on November 1, 2009

Check out the new Science Stories on the bug project and the survey project. Both are fanstistic ways of learning about the science done on the field course…

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Artists in the Arctic

Posted by Andy Bunn on October 29, 2009

Andy Revkin continues his interesting coverage of the Arctic. Look at this postcard – similar in some ways to the coverage he gave the Polaris…

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Polaris Project Video

Posted by Max Holmes on September 30, 2009

After countless hours of work, Chris Linder has completed a 10-minute video that follows the Polaris Project…

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2009 pictures and a proto science story

Posted by Andy Bunn on August 25, 2009

Chris and I selected 100 of the 21,000 images he took and got some up under the Photos page. We tried to focus on images that captured…

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University of Nevada Reno Tells the Story!

Posted by Max Holmes on August 21, 2009

One of the objectives of the Polaris Project is to help get the story of the Arctic, climate change, and the Polaris Project to as broad an audience as…

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