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Tag Archives: Peter Han
  • Pleistocene Park Part II: Mammoths, Microbes, and Machines

    Posted by Peter Han on July 20, 2014

    “Restoration of the Mammoth Steppe Ecosystem” is something of a tagline for the Pleistocene Park experiment. It’s called the Mammoth steppe because some think that the gigantic herbivores of…


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  • Pleistocene Park Part I: The Earth’s Spheres

    Posted by Peter Han on July 18, 2014

    There are plenty of natural processes that can change the earth. Tectonic plates move, thrusting seafloors underground and pushing mountains into the sky. Cycles in our orbit around the…


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  • Soil Lab Party!

    Posted by Peter Han on July 15, 2014

    Only a handful of returning students are still here at the North East Science Station. The Core and the rest of the students are up in the tundra, working…


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  • Congratulations to Polaris Participants and Alumni!

    Posted by Sue Natali on May 27, 2014

    As Polaris Project students advance in their academic careers, they continue to achieve scientific successes through publications, presentations at national meetings, and awards and fellowships.  Just to highlight a…


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  • Natural Bias: How We Think About Nature

    Posted by Peter Han on April 13, 2014

    A few weeks ago the core group members, a few of PI’s, and I met over the internet and chatted about the upcoming summer. After going over logistics, basic…


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  • A Year Ago Tomorrow: Thoughts from AGU

    Posted by Peter Han on December 13, 2013

    All of this science talk made me think about how much my situation had changed in the past year. I was busy a year ago. It was simultaneously my senior…


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  • A System Within A Bigger System

    Posted by Karin Sather on December 12, 2013

    With two more days left in San Fransisco and a poster presentation successfully completed, I have taken some time to reflect on my experience at the American…


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  • To Future Students

    Posted by Peter Han on October 1, 2013

    I’ve been home from Russia for a few months. Aside from a slight baggage mix-up at the Seatac airport, travel went as smoothly as I could have asked. But…


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  • Underground

    Posted by Peter Han on July 23, 2013

    Since the arctic is underlain by a layer of permafrost, soil that remains frozen year-round, water does not penetrate far into the ground from the surface. However, the thawed…


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  • The Process of Science

    Posted by Peter Han on July 17, 2013

    Science is funny. Over the last few days my project was in a conceptual crisis, then I found that crisis was just what I needed to make…


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  • To the Taiga

    Posted by Peter Han on July 2, 2013

    Tomorrow, we fly to New York. Now that I’ve filled a small container of red pepper flakes (to avoid any future “spice hoarding,” that we’ve been told about) I’m…


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