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Outreach Abroad
I recently traveled back home to Bangkok, Thailand to visit family and thought this would be a great opportunity to share my research interests, experiences in Siberia, and thoughts…
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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…
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Google “sea ice pool”
Go ahead. Last year we had a Polaris Project bet going to see who could guess the minimum sea ice extent in 2008. Here were…
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Outreach in Wilbur
I had the opportunity yesterday to give three class presentations at the junior high and high school I attended in my hometown of Wilbur, Washington. I spoke with…
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Arctic Science Summit Week
I’m currently in Bergen, Norway at the 10th annual Arctic Science Summit Week (ASSW). One of the draws of attending the ASSW is the science symposium, in which…
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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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Peace Prize Highlights
We are wrapping up the Polaris Project at the Nobel Peace Prize Forum. It’s been a great experience for our team. We’ve had good meetings to plan…
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In Northfield
The American PI’s for the project are here in Northfield, MN for the Nobel Peace Forum. It is great to see everyone and begin discussions on our plans for…
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Polaris and Peace
The Polaris Project PIs are in Northfield, MN at the 21st Annual Nobel Peace Prize Forum. The forum this year honors the scientists from the IPCC who…
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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…
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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…
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Boyd and Kate line up a talk
Boyd and Kate will be giving a talk at Clark University about their experiences last summer as part of our student outreach efforts.
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Field course description, photos, and more
Potential students (and their parents) are looking over the website as the application deadline draws near. We added some new photos – especially to the estuary album…
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Excitement builds for 2009!
We had a good meeting in SF. Great to have all the PIs together and great to have some of the students present a sliver of their science. All…
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At AGU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yesterday (Wednesday the 17th) we presented our poster titled “Biogeochemical characteristics of Siberia’s Kolyma watershed in relation to climate change and permafrost degradation” at the AGU conference. We spoke…
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