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Yakutsk, Eastern Siberian city of mammoth bones, permafrost, cultural diversity, and lattes!
Greeting from eastern Siberia. My name is Sudeep Chandra, one of the principal investigators on the Polaris Project and an assistant professor at the University of Nevada- Reno. Our trip…
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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…
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Здравствуите из Якутска!
We arrived in Yakutsk around 10 am yesterday due to a plane delay in Moscow. While the flight was technically a “red-eye”, it never was dark during its 6…
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Thoughts from the Moscow airport
July 7th, 2008 From the Moscow airport We have been traveling for a long time now and are waiting for, in some…
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ресторан москва кафе стоп банк россна
We arrived into Moscow early around 10:00 a.m. planning on spending several hours going through customs and ended up passing right through. Arriving at our ‘hotel’ nicknamed the Green…
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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…
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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…
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Just about ready..
So I think I’m pretty packed and ready! More than anything I’m excited to finally begin this experience! It finally hit me that I’m GOING TO SIBERIA tomorrow morning! …
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Packing, preparing, etc.
So the past few days have been spent getting together all of the unfamiliar equipment I’ve acquired this summer and trying to fit them into one duffel bag. …
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Ready to Go!
After several months of work, on March 16, 2007, we submitted our Polaris Project proposal to the National Science Foundation’s International Polar Year grant competition. Six months later we…
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The Sea Ice Pool
Betting on future climate has become a phenomenon on lately. See here and here, and here. (Those are all blogs…
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Max’s Update from Yakutsk, Siberia
As part of another NSF funded project, I’m in Russia for ~3 weeks with a group of four people. Two have never been to Russia before, so in some…
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Methane Madness
Who I Am I am an aquatic an aquatic ecologist and biogeochemist interested in carbon and nutrient cycling between terrestrial and aquatic systems, the cryosphere and atmosphere. I am also one…
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The winter weather in Cherskii
While perusing wunderground.com, I checked out the temperature in Cherskii. It’s cold over there right now, which makes sense at 69°N….
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Sea ice
Arctic ice, both sea and land, has been in the news quite a lot lately and I expect we’ll hear more about it once the world’s leading ice scientists…
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