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2009 sea ice bets
Some of the folks here at Polaris headquarters are betting on the minimum extent of arctic sea ice in 2009. We did this last year and then wrote about it again this year. We are not alone. Look here, here, and here.…
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Why do we fly all the way around the world?
The distance between my home in Bellingham, WA and the Northeast Science Station in Cherskiy is about 3,000 miles. That’s a long way but astute readers will notice that the field course participants end up traveling a long, long way to get to Cherskiy.…
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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 all over the world documenting scientific fieldwork. Chris has worked in Siberia before, traveling with Max Holmes and Kate Bulygina to the Far East a few winters back.…
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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 our guesses: Here’s what 2008 really looked like: Holly won the pool and got the glory and acclaim that came with it (that was the only prize).…
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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 won the Peace Prize in 2007. We’re being kept busy. The PIs are taking part in a panel discussion about climate change in the Arctic.…
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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 – and brought in some more information about the 2008 field course. Also, we’ve added some information about the 2008 students to the team page.…
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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 the PIs have a list of things to work on as we get ready for the 2009 class.…
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Polaris meeting at AGU
Most of the PIs and at least four of the students from the 2008 field class are meeting this week at the American Geophysical Union’s Fall Meeting. There are some 16,000 scientists attending this year and some of the highlights from the meeting will be webcast.…
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Good press
Here is a nice article on the Summer 2008 field class in the Worcester paper. Good job Matt, Kate, Boyd, Bill, and Karen – nice article!…
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Website overhaul coming soon
It is getting to the point where students at the various colleges and universities are looking at the website and contemplating applying to the field course and spending part of the summer in Siberia. As the reluctant web guy on the team, I can tell you that we are going to roll out some new features and content on the site within the next few weeks. …
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New pictures
There are a few new pictures on the site. We are trying to get them up as fast as the connection here allows. -Andy Bunn, WWU…
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Comments
The ‘Comments’ on the blogs have been set up to work correctly now. Readers feel free to comment. I’ll have to approve them but will try to do so regularly. So make yourself heard! -Andy, WWU Professor and reluctant blogmaster.…
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Moscow
We arrived in Moscow at dawn on July six. We made it through customs in a fairly short amount of time with all our scientific gear intact. Everybody was feeling pretty ragged as Kate Bulygina met the two minibuses she had hired and we loaded all the gear into one and all the people into the other.…
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Leg one completed
Tyler, Holly and I finished the first of our three overnight flights after landing at JFK at 7:00AM from Seattle. We met up with the St. Olaf crew fresh off field work in California and are trying get some rest before meeting the rest of the crew at the gate to catch our flight to Moscow.…
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