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More friends! Friends of friends.
The Polaris project is off to Moscow – in the air for a mere 14 hours. Until the next update happens you can amuse yourself by getting us more…
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We like you. You like us.
Hey Facebookers. Take a second to nip over to Facebook and tell the world that you like the Polaris Project. We’ll be doing more with our Facebook…
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New applications
New applications are rolling in for the summer 2010 field course. I have nothing in particular to add other than that we continue to draw some of the brightest…
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Streams and permafrost
Yet more new science stories. We are rolling them out as they are finished. Look at the stream story and the permafrost story. (Oh and the
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Bugs and Rivers…New Science Stories
Check out the new Science Stories on the bug project and the survey project. Both are fanstistic ways of learning about the science done on the field course…
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Artists in the Arctic
Andy Revkin continues his interesting coverage of the Arctic. Look at this postcard – similar in some ways to the coverage he gave the Polaris…
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2009 pictures and a proto science story
Chris and I selected 100 of the 21,000 images he took and got some up under the Photos page. We tried to focus on images that captured…
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Back from Moscow in 32 hours
After the Polaris Project folks landed in Chicago we wandered through the airport leaving members off at different gates to make it to their final destinations. The Seattle folks…
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Fog on the Panteleikha, 2am on July 19
Watching the Panteleikha River fill with fog was one of the finest things I’ve seen.
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From 68 31’N and 161 02’E and heading N at 8 km/hr.
We have some time to do limited lab work (and even a semi-mobile internet connection) while we…
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Updated pictures, comments, and getting ready to ship out
Three things: 1. We’ve added some pictures to the student blog posts again. Here, here, and here for example. 2. Max Holmes, the director of the…
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BGAN from the barge
Some of asked us how our communiques are getting out from our remote position. The answer is that we are using a satellite-based Internet antenna. We point…
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Updated student info, blog pictures
We have made some changes to the site (amazing given our remote location – the BGAN satellite internet is working well). First see information on the 2009 students if you…
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Updating the blog with pictures
We are updating the student and faculty blog posts with new pitcures after many email pleas (read ‘demands’) from some of our readers. Chris Linder is supplying some pictures…
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Polaris in Eos
Eos (subscription required) is a weekly publication of the American Geophysical Union. There is a nice article in yesterday’s issue describing the Polaris Project trip…
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