Hi, all! While sitting in one of the buildings upstairs waiting for Chris to take an interview (I’m not sure about grammar here and further) from me, I’ve decided to blog a little.

So, since we’ve arrived to Cherskiy almost a week passed. We knew a lot, got some experience of working in lab, taking water samples,  and killing blood suckers to not to let them do suckations(?). First night was awful, because we didn’t know that mosquitoes already were waiting us, so they were prepared for suckations. Perhaps, they’ve heard Zimovs’ talks about a defenite date of our arriving. But since that day it is becoming colder and colder, so this shmeelyveelyes dissapeared somewhere, but not  all of them.

  Concerning serious things, we all made great mental and musculin work, studying how to act in the field and in the lab, and we also learned a lot of arctic ecology and had lectures in the field. Andy showed us how to core trees and explained for what, also told a lot about permafrost in Grass Alas. As for me, first experience was a chemistry with Bill, we prepared reagents, which are important for proper devices’ work. Then with Sudeep we took water samples of Shuchi thermokarst lake, then we worked in the lab, distributing samples to accordingly marked little bottles for next lab procedures.  Then I did some hand exercises doing pumping the water samples of different depth also for next lab procedures. 

Today we (Nikita, Andy, Chris and me) installed barrels near the lakes shore and pumped water innere for Sudeep’s research. And now Chris came and it is time for a brake… Now it is 9:05 p.m. After Chris have taken a very interesting interview, we with Kayla went to take more water samples from Shochi for Bill, that time Max, Travis, Chris, Sudeep, Andy replaced our morning barrels in more suitable positions.

After a wonderful supper, we spoke about our research questions to make it clear to each other to cooperate probably.

What about a head of this “article” – some people are sick, some are getting sick, so let’s not be sick. let it be ligit.

Kirilko