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A Life Changing Experience
Is it possible that I will ever forget those two days that influenced the road of my life so much? Everything started in a study session of my friend’s…
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The First Puerto Ricans in Cherskiy
¿Alguna vez has sentido ser probablemente, el primero de tu país en llegar algún lugar? Ese fue el sentimiento más emocionante que he tenido en mi vida, ya que…
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Cherskiy through the lens
Cherskiy, the Northeast Science Station, and the barge through the lens of Becky Tachihara.
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Science and swimming and bugs, oh my!
Hi everybody! Sorry it has taken me so long to get anything posted on here; we had no internet for the first few days and now the internet we…
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Science playground
Greetings from Northeast Siberia. I am in Cherskiy, where ruins of Soviet expansion litter our sampling sites. Just centimeters underground, the soil is frozen for decades on end. In…
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Bushwhacking for science
Privyet! Hello to everyone back home and elsewhere. I am sure that you are all happy to know that we are alive and well, thriving even. I am working…
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Bugs, Aii-ee!
Slapping, clapping, waving, scratching—these are common, if not constant signals of life in Siberia. “Don’t scratch the bites,” someone says, “They’ll go away.” Sure. [caption id=”attachment_3034″ align=”alignleft” width=”530″ caption=”Mosquitoes swarmed around…
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First Impression
It’s our fourth full day in Cherskiy! The weather has been beautiful everyday – sunny with a breeze and warm (but not hot). Everyone is already very busy with…
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The Carbon Bomb
I’m trying to imagine it as I look out over this wet, verdant landscape, dark-green stands of larch forest punctuated by lighter green bogs and blue lakes glinting in…
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We Arrive, Finally
We can see through crystalline skies its unique beauty and something of its expanse from 8,000 feet—a flat, bright-green flood plain pocked from horizon to horizon with black-water lakes…
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The “Aquatics International”
Despite the fact that the Polaris Project is funded by the American National Science Foundation and its founding father is based in Woods Hole (US), the variety of nationalities…
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Converged in Cherskiy
We arrived in Cherskiy last night after two grueling flights across eight time zones from Mosocw to Yakutsk to Cherskiy. However, we landed in Cherskiy to clear, cool, and…
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travelling
Privyet friends of the Polaris Project! I’m sure you’ll all be pleased to hear we’re alive and well and only moderately exhausted. I’m sitting on the floor of the…
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Waiting on a plane
All 22 dots have made it to Moscow. We spent a peaceful night at the hotel-like structure as in years past and had an idyllic hour or so in…
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What will 2011 bring?
“The deadly Russian heat wave of 2010 was due to a natural atmospheric phenomenon often associated with weather extremes” states a recently accepted publication in GRL and more importantly,…
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