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Undergraduate student extracts a tree core from a larch tree in Siberia.

A large, blood-filled mosquito in Siberia.

Polaris students collect benthic invertebrates from Shuchi Lake.

A quiet night for the lakes team on Shuchi Lake.

A speedboat cruises up the Panteleikha River.

The 2009 students head up the road to Shuchi Lake for fieldwork.

Two undergradute students fill cuvettes with water from a small Siberian stream.

Siberian mosquitoes.

Summer snow flurries.

The lake team collects a water sample using a Niskin bottle.

Rusting barge on the Panteleikha River, Cherskiy, Siberia.

Cranes in the port town of Cherskiy, Siberia, along the Kolyma River.

Thermokarst lake, formed by thawing permafrost.

Summer swim in the Panteleikha.

Andy Bunn sends a blog post from the barge.

Sergei Zimov guides students onto the quicksand-like beach at Duvannyi Yar.

Nikita Zimov leads the way onto the beach.

Ancient remains litter the beach.

Sergei Zimov lectures at Duvannyi Yar.

Andy Bunn holds a mammoth femur.

Dry, crumbly soil is all that remains when ice wedges thaw.

A larch tree hangs off the edge of the permafrost exposure.

The exposed riverbank at Duvannyi Yar.

Plants sprout out of the carbon-rich soil at Duvannyi Yar.

A small boat navigates shallow water below ice wedges and baydzerakhs (mounds of thawing Pleistocene permafrost soils) at the riverbank exposure of Duvannyi Yar on the Kolyma River in the Siberian Arctic.

The barge on the Kolyma is framed by trees falling over the riverbank's crumbling edge.

Valentin Spektor and the permafrost team take samples of ancient ice-filled soil.

Nikolai Torgorvkin holds a sample of permafrost soil.

Eroding permafrost soil colors the water brown as it is leeched into the Kolyma River in the Siberian Arctic.

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