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Stumbling Through the Tundra
Before I came to the tundra, I imagined it to be a vast, flat landscape. And it is indeed vast, but flat is the last word I would use…
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More Questions!
The core students have been working hard in the field collecting, mapping, photographing, and measuring their plots, streams, and ponds. Now that we are into the last days of…
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Pleistocene Park Part II: Mammoths, Microbes, and Machines
“Restoration of the Mammoth Steppe Ecosystem” is something of a tagline for the Pleistocene Park experiment. It’s called the Mammoth steppe because some think that the gigantic herbivores of…
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Pleistocene Park Part I: The Earth’s Spheres
There are plenty of natural processes that can change the earth. Tectonic plates move, thrusting seafloors underground and pushing mountains into the sky. Cycles in our orbit around the…
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Soil Lab Party!
Only a handful of returning students are still here at the North East Science Station. The Core and the rest of the students are up in the tundra, working…
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Halfway There!
7/13/2014 This first week in the tundra has been amazing! The area itself is so beautiful and full of unique and interesting landscapes. The combinations of wet and dry ground…
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Arctic Ground Squirrel
The scientists who study global carbon cycling and the processes affecting it are commonly bio-geochemists. There is a lengthy chain-link of scientists lined up trying to paint this picture….
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A Snapshot
The barge is the central hub of life. It hugs the shore of the Kolyma River, which at this latitude is about five kilometers across. The metal hull is…
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Hunting for Plans and UV light
I thought I knew what I wanted to study, and how to do it. I needed water—a stream that ran from headwaters down through beaded pools and into an…
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Skipping Stones in the Forest
Most scientists follow a path that leads them to becoming an expert in their field —just one aspect of scientific knowledge. Some people spend their time looking at plants…
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Fun… Fun All The Time!
Since arriving in Cherskiy, everything has been fast paced, but I wouldn’t have it any other way. From day one, Heather Alexander made me an expert at taking soil…
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Tundra Anticipation
Next on the agenda is the tundra. The anticipation has been building for the past seven or so days to go to this mysterious place. So far we have…
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Pleistocene Time Machine
As a child I visited many parks and historical sites. At most of these parks the rangers always mentioned that there was a chance that you might find fossils,…
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Ideas Are Taking Shape!
We have arrived in Cherskiy after a long time traveling and have begun the process of getting to work. It is very exciting to be around all of the…
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First Snow
This trip has been the best experience of my life, by far. I got my first impression of Russian culture in Moscow. Almost all the people in the airplane going…
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