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On the Road Again
Today was a long, sad day. We spent the morning packing, cleaning and swimming in the Panteleikha one last time. Right after lunch we loaded up the bus and…
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Yummy Yummy Yedoma
Hi everyone! As of late, those of us working with soil have been busy with making soil extracts. Sam’s earlier post gives an indication as to our…
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An Upside to Global Warming?
Well, maybe not, but it was remarkable nevertheless to see many of the Polaris Project students swimming in the Arctic Ocean a few days ago.
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Late nights in the lab
Good evening/morning! While the rest of the group is sleeping, Elliott, Emily and myself are on a vacuum-filtering marathon in the soils lab. It’s about 1:30, morale is high,…
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Seven Lessons from a Northern Adventure
We left Saturday morning on what we imagined would be a long, hard day trip to the Arctic Ocean and tundra. We ended up weathering a storm in a…
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Siberian cooking
The Northeast Science station in Cherskiy is one of the most remote places I have ever been, yet we have internet, showers, washing machines, a sauna and …. good…
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We’re Back!
The Team made it back to Cherskiy late last night after a magnificent 36 hour trip to the Arctic Ocean and tundra. Weather extended the trip beyond our planned…
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Holed up and held up by bad weather
Hey all, Andy here – stateside. Max Holmes made a sat phone call back to the states. The group is delayed north of Cherskiy by bad weather. They have…
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A bug’s life
If you have been a regular reader of the blog, you last heard from the bug team as we were setting out our not-so-high-tech bug trap made out of…
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project development
Not until now, slouched on the bench of the barge trying to keep my eyes open and fingers typing, did I fully appreciate the work that goes into getting…
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Heading to the Tundra and Arctic Ocean
Tomorrow morning we pile into three small boats and head north to the tundra and hopefully the coastal Arctic Ocean. The trip north has been one of the highlights…
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To Duvannyi Yar and Back Again…
Hello everyone! Its our first update in a while, as the internet has been intermittent and the team has just returned from a two day trip upriver….
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Sharing Data…
The three overarching objectives of the Polaris Project are to 1) train the next generation of arctic researchers, 2) advance scientific understanding of the Arctic, and 3) expand public…
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Making Sandwiches
It has been nearly one week since our PI’s Scott Goetz and Michelle Mack left Cherskiy, relegating the ‘Affiliated Five’ to ‘The Gang of Three’. Since then Heather, Kami,…
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Step One: Gather water, Step Two: ???
As Max Holmes says, the atmosphere here at the station is a balance between student independence in projects and guidance by the PIs. He was telling me that as…
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