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Science is life at the Northeast Science Station
Spending every waking (and sleeping) moment with like-minded ecologists really allows us…
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Advanced Flower Picking
A lot of what we do here, and what other scientists do elsewhere, may sound complicated but when broken down into component parts it is predominantly simple menial labor….
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Moss is Boss and Other Adventures
These past couple of weeks have been amazing. Actually, in truth, amazing doesn’t even come close to what the experience has been. To begin on our past adventures: several…
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Crunch Time
We’ve entered crunch time, with students and PIs working feverishly to collect data as the end of our time in Siberia quickly approaches. Today, Lindsey Parkinson (Western Washington University)…
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Highlight on Student Research – Ludda Ludwig of St. Olaf College
(Mark Paricio is a PolarTREC Teacher accompanying the Polaris Project this summer. To read all of Mark’s journals, go to:
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Highlight on Student Research – Vasily Lebedev
(Mark Paricio is a PolarTREC Teacher accompanying the Polaris Project this summer. To read all of Mark’s journals, go to: http://www.polartrec.com/expeditions/siberian-arctic-systems-study ) The university students of the…
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Creative Contraptions
(Mark Paricio is a PolarTREC Teacher accompanying the Polaris Project this summer. To read all of Mark’s journals, go to:
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Duvannyi Yar – A Trip Back in Time
(Mark Paricio is a PolarTREC Teacher accompanying the Polaris Project this summer. To read all of Mark’s journals, go to: http://www.polartrec.com/expeditions/siberian-arctic-systems-study ) Duvannyi Yar –…
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Mt. Rodinka – Source of the Yedoma?
(Mark Paricio is a PolarTREC Teacher accompanying the Polaris Project this summer. To read all of Mark’s journals, go to: http://www.polartrec.com/expeditions/siberian-arctic-systems-study )…
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Duvannyi Yar
Normally fifteen people sleep on the barge while others sleep at the station itself on the hill above the river. In order to nearly double our occupancy empty bunks…
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Growing Up
It’s been a week of rapid change here in Cherskiy. The “inter-niet” has switched to “inter-da”, tropical heat has replaced arctic snow and, for the first time ever, facial…
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Permafrost: Drilling and Digging
(This post is by Mark Paricio, a PolarTREC teacher accompanying the Polaris Project this year. To read all of Mark’s posts, go to:
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Above My Already High Expectations
What do you expect when you are going to Siberia to work with world-class scientists? I had high expectations just like my fellow students. But what I have experienced…
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From Flames to Forests
As part of my NSF-Funded Post-Doctoral Fellowship, I have spent the last year talking with colleagues and friends to try and determine the best approach for conducting plot-level experimental…
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Life at the Northeast Science Station
(This post is by Mark Paricio, a PolarTREC teacher accompanying the Polaris Project this year. To read all of Mark’s posts, go to:
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