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Life on a Barge
July 14th 2008 Our boyant “hotel-like structure” is being pulled up the Kolyma, en route for Duvannyi Yar. Valentin was especially excited, since he is a scientist from the Permafrost Institute in Yakutsk. We were told stories of huge exposures of permafrost, slowly thawing into the river, revealing mammoth, horse and bison bones buried for thousands of years.…
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Data analysis and swimming in the Lena
July 9, 2008 (We were unable to post this due to disabled internet connection in Cherskiy) Waking up fairly early to a delicious breakfast in our hotel (thank you Katey and others), we began our day with a quick trip to a local internet cafe to check our emails and to see if we could connect with the outside world.…
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