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Ancient jawbone from Pleistocene megafauna.

The barge: a floating home for the Polaris undergraduate students.

Joanne Heslop and Nicholai Torgovkin listen to a lecture on the barge.

Arctic cottongrass, Eriophorum callitrix, grows alongside an abandoned boat and storage tank.

Professor Andy Bunn on the barge.

Erin Seybold, Moira Hough, and Kayla Henson pick through a lake sediment sample.

Breakfast on the barge.

Science & chocolate.

Moira Hough writes in her journal on the barge.

Polaris students filter water on the barge.

Blaize Denfeld and Professor Karen Frey filter water on the barge.

Professor Bill Sobczak runs an experiment in the wet lab.

Claire Griffin runs samples in the Orbita lab.

Nicholai Torgovkin weighs a permafrost sample.

Sergei Zimov, director of the Northeast Science Station.

Zimov's barge at Cherskiy sleeps 20 people, and is the home of the Polaris Project students and faculty during the summer.

Sample vials hold specimens of benthic invertebrates from Siberian aquatic ecosystems including lakes and streams.

First leg: the 2009 students meet up in the Dulles airport.

Kayla Henson reads papers on the flight to Moscow.

Karen Frey takes in an arctic sunrise on the flight from Moscow to Yakutsk.

Fistful of passports.

A mountain of baggage in the Yakutsk hotel.

Andy Bunn and Karen Frey show students satellite images of the Cherskiy area in a Yakutsk hotel lobby.

Yakutian children perform at a reception in Yakutsk.

Travis Drake and Erin Seybold investigate ice crystals growing from the roof of a permafrost tunnel in the Melnikov Permafrost Institute, Yakutsk, Siberia, Russia.

Kayla Henson and Max Janicek point at all of the stopping points on the 2009 flight route to Cherskiy.

Professor Sudeep Chandra checks email while waiting for the flight.

Killing time waiting for the flight to Cherskiy.

Load-it-yourself on the flight to Cherskiy.

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