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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…
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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…
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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….
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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…
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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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Home – NY – Moscow – Yakutsk… Cherskiy Tomorrow!
We are now several days into our trip and we’ll finally reach Cherskiy, our final destination, tomorrow (if all goes as planned). Things have gone mostly smoothly so far, with…
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Max and Anya on the radio…
Max and Russian student Anya Suslova did an interview on public radio about the Student Partners Project. They give a great interview and talk about the Polaris…
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Frey to conduct fieldwork in the northern Bering Sea on the Coast Guard Cutter Healy icebreaker
In addition to having research interests in impacts of permafrost thaw on land-ocean linkages of carbon and nutrients in Siberia, my research also investigates carbon dynamics in coastal…
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Holy Cross Professor Eager to Extend Reseach and Teaching Efforts to Arctic Ecosystems
I am a stream biogeochemist and ecologist who has studied the fate of terrestrial-derived organic matter and aquatic primary production in a variety of aquatic ecosystems spanning from small…
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Meet the team…
The Polaris Project is moving forward. The team is in the process of selecting the inaugural class for the field class and we are going start blogging…
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14,000 and growing…
Every December a huge number of scientists gather in San Francisco for the fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union (AGU). This year there were over 14,000 attendees,…
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Welcome to the Polaris Project website and blog
‘Global warming’ is all over the news these days, mainly because of changes that are happening far away or because of events we fear may happen some time in…
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The Polaris Project Web Site is Live
Well, somehow I didn’t hide underneath the desk fast enough when Max asked how we were going to get a Polaris Project web site up. I…
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