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A remarkably significant and vulnerable environment due to its relatively “warm” permafrost and vast stores of ancient organic carbon.

Pre-trip excursion to local Black Beach.

Travel

Getting there is half the fun/pain.

The Northeast Science Station in Cherskiy, Siberia is laboratory & home for the field course.

Cherskiy area

Most of the research is done at the lakes, streams, and rivers near Cherskiy.

Duvannyi Yar

Duvannyi Yar is a site upriver from Cherskiy where massive permafrost thaw is underway revealing the Pleistocene landscape beneath.

We make a trip north from the station in most years to sample the landscape outside of the boreal forest ecosystem.