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Zapatka senior thesis
Zapatka, Boyd. Burn scar recognition in the boreal forest near Cherskiy, Russia, using synthetic aperture radar and Landsat TM data. Senior Honors Thesis, Clark University, May 2010.
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Zapatka & Frey SoA 2010
Zapatka, B. and K. E. Frey. 2010. Using Landsat and radar satellite data to assess burn severity of two fires in East Siberia using a differenced normalized…
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We’re not going to Siberia, but we’re going to Alaska!
Hello everyone my name is Claire and this is Boyd. Hi. Claire traveled to Siberia with the research team and Boyd went the summer before and both of us…
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State of the Arctic Conference
This past couple of days have been full of short presentations, plenary talks, and conversation. The Polaris Project is reuniting at the State of the Arctic Conference right…
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Polaris State-side
Due to an unfortunate turn of events, I was unable to return to Siberia this year but have been an avid follower of the blog and am happy to…
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Clarkies at Logan
Hello, friends. Clarkies here just waiting for our delayed flight. See everyone in Chicago!
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Woo hoo we’re going to the Arctic!
All 4 of us here at Clark are getting very excited to get to Cherskiy! We recently made a trip down to visit Max Holmes and Kate Bulygina…
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Outreach Abroad
I recently traveled back home to Bangkok, Thailand to visit family and thought this would be a great opportunity to share my research interests, experiences in Siberia, and thoughts…
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AGU Presentation
Today, Tyler and I presented our poster at the AGU Conference, the most prominent earth science conference in the world, in San Francisco. Our poster was located in the…
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Willis et al AGU 2008
Willis, K., B. Zapatka, K. Frey, J. Schade. R. M. Holmes. 2008. Biogeochemical characteristics of Siberia’s Kolyma River watershed in relation to climate warming and permafrost degradation….
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AGU and Outreach
A few days ago, Tyler and I submitted an abstract to hopefully present at the AGU Conference in San Francisco in December. With the help of Andy, Max, and…
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Our last days… LAB work!
July 22, 2008 Upon return from a truly spectacular trip up North to the tundra, we’re back in Cherksiy and have spent the last few days in the labs analyzing…
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Finally in Cherskii!
July 10th After an early morning wake up (4:30 am) and breakfast on the way to the airport, we left Yakutsk in a small prop airplane. While there had been…
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ресторан москва кафе стоп банк россна
We arrived into Moscow early around 10:00 a.m. planning on spending several hours going through customs and ended up passing right through. Arriving at our ‘hotel’ nicknamed the Green…
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Just about ready..
So I think I’m pretty packed and ready! More than anything I’m excited to finally begin this experience! It finally hit me that I’m GOING TO SIBERIA tomorrow morning! …
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