Field Notes
During, before, and after the field course, Polaris students and faculty share their thoughts through journal entries.
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Last Minute Preparations
Well there are only three days left before we leave on our trip. As you can see from Melissa and Joanne’s blogs the three of us just returned from Castle Lake a few days ago. Thanks to the crew at Castle Lake, Melissa and I feel more prepared to handle
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Bummin’ a ride
Hi, this is Mike Loranty. Several colleagues and I are heading to Siberia too. I’m a postdoctoral fellow at the Woods Hole Research Center working with Dr. Scott Goetz. Although not officially affiliated with the Polaris Project, we have become quite familiar with it through Max Holmes.…
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Winter in June
Hi everyone! Only six more days until our departure! As Melissa mentioned in her post, this past week the UNR Polaris crew was up at Castle Lake, Northern California training for our Siberian field work. Surprisingly, even though it’s late June the lake was still frozen and we pitched our
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Preparations
Despite the excitement of commencement and reunion, the Carleton College website found room to publish a story I wrote about the Polaris Project. You can check it out here: http://apps.carleton.edu/news/features/?story_id=644697 Thanks to Chris Linder for the photo selection! In other news, after the whirlwind of ending my time at Carleton and working
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Ready…Set…
ACID WASH! Hello from Northfield, MN, where Erin and I are washing scint vials like mad people. We’ve been here since classes let out doing some wetland/prairie research and preparing for our trip to Russia. Our research has been winding down as our preparations have wound up and we are very excited
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Counting Down the Days
As I count down the days until we leave for the trip (as of today twelve), I am occupied with packing, reading and preparing. Last week I had the chance to meet with Principle Investigators Bill Sobczak and Karen Frey to discuss general plans for sampling this summer.…
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A Taste of the Field
Well, just finished packing all of my field gear and soon Emily and I will be on our way to Castle Lake, near Shasta CA, to do preparatory training for the field work we’ll be doing in Siberia. While up at Castle, we not only get to test out all our
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greetings from kate in washington state
hello! my name is kate. and im a new member to the polaris team this year! im a senior at western washington university majoring in environmental science with a minor in chemistry. i work at the institute for watershed studies at wwu– working a lot in the lab and field
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From Sweden to Siberia!
Hej! My name is Jorien Vonk, born & raised in Holland, but I just finished my PhD at Stockholm University a few weeks ago. I have been looking at terrestrial carbon (from thawing permafrost) from a marine point of view; what happens to this material once it arrives in the
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Only two more weeks until we leave for Russia!
As you may be able to tell from the year-round addition of blog entries, participation in the Polaris Project stretches far beyond our month-long stay in Siberia. Right now, many of the Polaris participants are finishing up their preparations for the trip.…
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Less than two months until departure!
As the school year is winding down, I am getting increasingly excited about spending the summer in Siberia. My name is Lydia Russell-Roy and I am a senior at Carleton College majoring in Biology with a French and Francophone Studies concentration.…
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Hello From Clark University
Hi everyone! It is Cassandra and Blaize, we are writing to you from Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts. Cassandra and I got together to start to plan, prepare and talk about the trip. We thought we would share a little about ourselves: I’m Cassandra, this is my first post for
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Hi everyone!
Hi everyone! My name is Melissa Robbins and I’m a junior at the University of Nevada-Reno where I major in Environmental Science with minors in ecohydrology and wildlife. Most of my studies and the work I do focuses on freshwater management, ecology, and conservation.…
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Prepare for your cunning adversary
By now, I’m sure all the new students have heard rumors of the cunning behemoths otherwise known as Siberian mosquitoes. The rumors, I am sorry to confirm, are true. The moment it becomes warm, the Siberian mosquitoes and horseflies will emerge from hiding to feast on fresh, unsuspecting Polaris students.…
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Hello!
Hi everyone! My name is Elliot Vaughan and I am a junior at Carleton College in Minnesota. I am majoring in biology and also take a lot of Spanish classes (which will probably not be all that useful this summer). The majority of my ecological field research has involved waking
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