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Arctic inspiration
Today I went out with Ludda to a hill slope running down to a stream we call “Y4.” She was taking additional measurements to add to the data she…
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Unnamed Territory
Today we named three lakes and a stream. In the arctic research version of a naming ceremony (lacking red ribbons, giant scissors, and popping champagne), we had bug shirts,…
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Just a Matter of Time
The balance of evidence suggests a discernable human influence on global climate. Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change (IPCC), Second Assessment Report, 1995. There is new and stronger evidence that…
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Summers can also be cold
It was a normal day, but as soon as breakfast was finished, the first raindrops started to fall. Although not many drops were falling, the whole sky turned gray….
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Counting Carbon
It’s hard to believe that we’ve passed the half way mark for our trip. Constant sunlight plays tricks with the mind. One day seems like two or three, and…
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Duvannyi Yar, Part Two
We landed on the riverbank near the mouth of a shallow stream and stepped gingerly ashore onto soft, ancient mud. Dissolved organic carbon samples collected last year by Polaris…
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Duvannyi Yar, Part One
“Let’s gather, everyone, on the front of the barge for a safety talk,” Max called. The morning was cool, still, and buggy after a cold, windy night, the Kolyma glassy…
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A Norwegian in Siberia
It is now eleven days since we arrived at the barge and I’ve had time to let the first impressions sink in. Travelling from Tromsø in northern Norway, I…
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A Life Changing Experience
Is it possible that I will ever forget those two days that influenced the road of my life so much? Everything started in a study session of my friend’s…
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The First Puerto Ricans in Cherskiy
¿Alguna vez has sentido ser probablemente, el primero de tu país en llegar algún lugar? Ese fue el sentimiento más emocionante que he tenido en mi vida, ya que…
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Cherskiy through the lens
Cherskiy, the Northeast Science Station, and the barge through the lens of Becky Tachihara.
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Science and swimming and bugs, oh my!
Hi everybody! Sorry it has taken me so long to get anything posted on here; we had no internet for the first few days and now the internet we…
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Science playground
Greetings from Northeast Siberia. I am in Cherskiy, where ruins of Soviet expansion litter our sampling sites. Just centimeters underground, the soil is frozen for decades on end. In…
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Bushwhacking for science
Privyet! Hello to everyone back home and elsewhere. I am sure that you are all happy to know that we are alive and well, thriving even. I am working…
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