News

  • The New York Times…

    A story about the Polaris Project has just been posted to Andy Revkin’s Dot Earth blog at the New York Times.  I think it is safe to say that Revkin is generally considered to be the top science journalist in the US, and of course the New York Times has

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  • Polaris Project in the News…

    An article about the Polaris Project was just published in Field Notes, the National Science Foundation’s Arctic logistics contractor Polar Field Services.  To view the article, click here.…

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  • Student projects and an expanded science section of the website

    The Northeast Science Station is bustling with science as the student projects are well under way. We are using this to introduce a new section of the website focusing on the science done on the Polaris Project.  The students are now into daily routines of sampling trips to locations near

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  • Updated pictures, comments, and getting ready to ship out

    Three things: 1. We’ve added some pictures to the student blog posts again. Here, here, and here for example. 2. Max Holmes, the director of the project who is sadly stayed behind in the USA this year, is diligently moderating comments that folks send in about the blog posts.…

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  • Updated student info, blog pictures

    We have made some changes to the site (amazing given our remote location – the BGAN satellite internet is working well). First see information on the 2009 students if you want to place a face with a name. Also, the team page is new to better accomodate our growing Polaris family.…

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  • Updating the blog with pictures

    We are updating the student and faculty blog posts with new pitcures after many email pleas (read ‘demands’) from some of our readers.  Chris Linder is supplying some pictures on the fly even as he works on developing science stories and doing interviews all the members of the Polaris Project.…

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  • Great article in today’s Reno …

    Great article in today’s Reno Gazette-Journal featuring our very own Sudeep Chandra & Joanne Heslop! http://tiny.cc/uST3h…

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  • Polaris Project in the News

    As Andy Bunn mentioned, on June 30 an article about the Polaris Project was published in EOS, the weekly publication of the American Geophysical Union (AGU). You can view the article here. AGU is one of the world’s largest scientific societies, and all 50,000+ members receive EOS each week.  …

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  • Onward!

    Well, after months of planning and anticipation, the Polaris Project expedition to Siberia begins today. Congratulations to everyone for all of the work that has gotten us confidently to this point.  I greatly regret that I won’t be traveling with the group this year, though my regret is tempered by

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  • Polaris in Eos

    Eos (subscription required) is a weekly publication of the American Geophysical Union. There is a nice article in yesterday’s issue describing the Polaris Project trip from last year and what we are up to this year. Eos reaches more than 50,000 scientists every week and will raise the profile of

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  • All the new students have blog…

    All the new students have blog accts. Adding 11 new folks made me realize that this will be a different trip. Last year we had only 7! #fb…

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  • Welcome Chris Linder

    An extraordinary new team member will be joining the Polaris Project field course this summer. Chris Linder is an award winning photographer and scientist who has traveled all over the world documenting scientific fieldwork. Chris has worked in Siberia before, traveling with Max Holmes and Kate Bulygina to the Far

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  • Polaris Project YouTube Debut

    Clark University is entering the Web 2.0 world. Here is footage of a recent pubic presentation on the 2008 summer field course.…

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  • Welcome New Students!

    We have just completed the selection of students for the 2009 Polaris Project field course.  It was a grueling process because we received applications from many more exceptional students than we could accept, but we’re thrilled with the outcome.  The new students are: Travis Drake and Moira Hough:  Carleton College

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  • Arctic Research on NOVA

    A four-part NOVA special “On Thin Ice in the Bering Sea” has just been released, featuring scientists discussing their climate change research in the northern Bering Sea (including some brief highlights of my own work).  The series also focuses on the impacts of recent climate change and sea ice decline

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