We arrived safely in Moscow yesterday.  The students and faculty look like they have rested well from the journey here and out trip to Red Square.  It is exciting to see this place through the eyes of our students.  The food at our hotel was well… Russian fare but made by an Uzbek chef that remembered us from last year. It is nice to know that people remember you one year after you have visited.

Below is a photo of Joanne Heslop  (University of Nevada undergraduate majoring in Ecohydrology and Environmental Studies) and I at the airport.  The Moscow airport has modernized in the last year and it very new looking.  Check out the cartoon artwork behind us.

We are off for another changes into 6 times zones.  Hopefully we can write more form Yakutsk before we leave for the Arctic.

Hope all are well.

Sudeep