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A lot of 2012 applications
The 2012 deadline has passed and we received applications for this year’s field course from dozens of different universities. The folks that are going to review these have their work cut out for them – there are some very highly qualified students with compelling stories.…
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Equipment at the Northeast Science Station
Though the Northeast Science Station was founded over 2 decades ago, in recent years the laboratory facilities at the Station have been greatly upgraded.
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Student Impact video
This multimedia video shows just how life-changing the Polaris Project can be.
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Science on Ice
After five hard years of work, Science on Ice: Four Polar Expeditions, is now in print. Before I began documenting the Polaris Project, I was the principal investigator of my own National Science Foundation grant called Live from the Poles. Our mission was to educate the public about how polar
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Polaris Project at SACNAS
The Polaris Project had an information and recruitment booth at the recent SACNAS conference in San Jose, California. We are eager to see the applications for Polaris 2012 that are generated from this exposure.
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Dallas and Kate in the Denmark Strait
I just got a nice note from 2010 Polaris student Kate Lewis who was writing from Reykjavik harbor. Kate graduated from WWU and has been working at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute as a Summer Student Fellow. Kate wrote that she had just finished one trip to Iceland with Chris
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Claire Griffin Publishes Her Polaris Project Research
In January 2008, Claire Griffin (a sophomore at Clark University) applied for the inaugural Polaris Project expedition. She was accepted. Unfortunately, one month before leaving, Claire fell off a horse and broke her arm, ending her chance to be part of the 2008 field course. …
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Max Wilbert Wins Journalism Award
Max Wilbert, a recent graduate from Western Washington University and a participant in the 2010 Polaris Project field course, has just won a national competition for his article "Siberian Summer" about his Polaris Project experience.
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Erin Seybold Awarded Fulbright
Erin Seybold, a senior at St. Olaf College and a participant in the 2009 and 2010 Polaris Project field courses, has been awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to study in Tromso, Norway over the coming year.
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Heather Alexander Awarded NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship
Heather Alexander, one of the five 2010 Polaris Project "Affiliates" (see Team page), has been awarded a prestigious NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship to continue her work on the boreal forest in the Kolyma River watershed.
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Polaris 2011 Students Selected
Fourteen undergraduate students have been selected to participate in the summer 2011 Polaris Project field course / research experience in the Siberian Arctic. Though we had to decline many outstanding applicants, we are thrilled that all of the students we extended offers to have accepted our invitations. …
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Apply Now for Summer 2011
Undergraduate students interested in participating in the Polaris Project Siberian field course should complete their application by February 20, 2011. To be eligible to apply, you must be an undergraduate student, currently in your junior or sophomore year (in exceptional cases a senior may be accepted). …
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2010 Photos
After pointless and senseless delay we have updated the photos page with a subset of the 2010 photos by Max and Chris.…
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Polaris Project on NPR
Max Holmes was recently interviewed about the Polaris Project for the 30-minute NPR radio show “The Point”. The interview was broadcast on Tuesday, September 14, on WCAI. It has now been archived online and can be heard by clicking here.…
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17 AGU Abstracts
Each December in San Francisco, the American Geophysical Union (AGU) holds the world’s largest scientific conference that focuses on Earth sciences. This year, Polaris Project participants submitted 17 abstracts for presentations at AGU based on their research as part of the Polaris Project. …
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