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More friends! Friends of friends.
The Polaris project is off to Moscow – in the air for a mere 14 hours. Until the next update happens you can amuse yourself by getting us more friends – on facebook. Please become a fan of the Polaris Project on facebook if you aren’t already.…
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We like you. You like us.
Hey Facebookers. Take a second to nip over to Facebook and tell the world that you like the Polaris Project. We’ll be doing more with our Facebook page this year and trying to get the word out there and on this blog.…
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New applications
New applications are rolling in for the summer 2010 field course. I have nothing in particular to add other than that we continue to draw some of the brightest and most interesting students from a great range of academic institutions. It’s an honor to see the applications arrive.…
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Streams and permafrost
Yet more new science stories. We are rolling them out as they are finished. Look at the stream story and the permafrost story. (Oh and the science page has had a small makeover too)…
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Bugs and Rivers…New Science Stories
Check out the new Science Stories on the bug project and the survey project. Both are fanstistic ways of learning about the science done on the field course told in the student’s own words.…
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Artists in the Arctic
Andy Revkin continues his interesting coverage of the Arctic. Look at this postcard – similar in some ways to the coverage he gave the Polaris Project during last summer’s field course. The descriptions of the art and the artists in this post are inspiring.…
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2009 pictures and a proto science story
Chris and I selected 100 of the 21,000 images he took and got some up under the Photos page. We tried to focus on images that captured the feel of the trip and didn’t include many of the specific images that documented the science that went on during the 2009 field course.…
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Back from Moscow in 32 hours
After the Polaris Project folks landed in Chicago we wandered through the airport leaving members off at different gates to make it to their final destinations. The Seattle folks got a little extra time together with a two and a half hour delay on top of a planned four hour layover.…
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Fog on the Panteleikha, 2am on July 19
Watching the Panteleikha River fill with fog was one of the finest things I’ve seen.…
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From 68 31’N and 161 02’E and heading N at 8 km/hr.
We have some time to do limited lab work (and even a semi-mobile internet connection) while we are en route to Cherskiy. Here is our current position. Chris Linder works on photos and Sudeep Chandra does some water quality analysis for lakes sampled at Duvannyi Yar.…
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Updated pictures, comments, and getting ready to ship out
Three things: 1. We’ve added some pictures to the student blog posts again. Here, here, and here for example. 2. Max Holmes, the director of the project who is sadly stayed behind in the USA this year, is diligently moderating comments that folks send in about the blog posts.…
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BGAN from the barge
Some of asked us how our communiques are getting out from our remote position. The answer is that we are using a satellite-based Internet antenna. We point it south and can beam messages off. It’s remarkable really. With that and a spotty connection at the station we are enjoying much better communication this year.…
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Updated student info, blog pictures
We have made some changes to the site (amazing given our remote location – the BGAN satellite internet is working well). First see information on the 2009 students if you want to place a face with a name. Also, the team page is new to better accomodate our growing Polaris family.…
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Updating the blog with pictures
We are updating the student and faculty blog posts with new pitcures after many email pleas (read ‘demands’) from some of our readers. Chris Linder is supplying some pictures on the fly even as he works on developing science stories and doing interviews all the members of the Polaris Project.…
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Polaris in Eos
Eos (subscription required) is a weekly publication of the American Geophysical Union. There is a nice article in yesterday’s issue describing the Polaris Project trip from last year and what we are up to this year. Eos reaches more than 50,000 scientists every week and will raise the profile of the project considerably.…
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