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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.

Ancient jawbone from Pleistocene megafauna.

A log bridge helps students navigate the quicksand at Duvannyi Yar.

The spoils from a few hours of bone-hunting on the beach.

Sunrise over the Kolyma River.

Ice wedges and baydzerakhs (mounds of thawing Pleistocene permafrost soils) at the riverbank exposure of Duvannyi Yar on the Kolyma River.

Ice wedge at Duvannyi Yar.

A small boat delivers a research team to Duvannyi Yar.

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

As the permafrost soil thaws and turns to mud, larch trees lose their support and topple.

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.

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