Journals – Page 25 – The Polaris Project

2010 Polaris Project Students Selected

Posted by Max Holmes on March 12, 2010

Though the 2010 Polaris Project field course in Siberia doesn’t begin for over 3 months, preparations are ramping up quickly. We have just finished selecting the 2010 undergraduate participants…

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4 Polaris Students Earn Scholarships to Arctic Conference in Miami

Posted by Max Holmes on March 11, 2010

The State of the Arctic Conference (http://soa.arcus.org) will be held next week in Miami (March 16-19, 2010). This large conference is drawing Arctic scientists from around the world. Twenty-five…

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New applications

Posted by Andy Bunn on February 14, 2010

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

Posted by Andy Bunn on November 2, 2009

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

Posted by Andy Bunn on November 1, 2009

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

Posted by Andy Bunn on October 29, 2009

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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Polaris Project Video

Posted by Max Holmes on September 30, 2009

After countless hours of work, Chris Linder has completed a 10-minute video that follows the Polaris Project…

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Missing the Arctic

Posted by Blaize Denfeld on September 11, 2009

Yesterday the Clarkie students traveled in to Boston from Worcester to attend fellow Polaris Member Chris Linder’s art exhibition. The exhibit, Exploring the Arctic Seafloor, displayed photos from an…

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2009 pictures and a proto science story

Posted by Andy Bunn on August 25, 2009

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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University of Nevada Reno Tells the Story!

Posted by Max Holmes on August 21, 2009

One of the objectives of the Polaris Project is to help get the story of the Arctic, climate change, and the Polaris Project to as broad an audience as…

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Some reflections…

Posted by Travis Drake on August 14, 2009

It has been a few weeks since the Polaris Project disbanded and I’ve had some time to reflect on my experience. I remember distinctly when Max Holmes invited me…

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Article on Permafrost Thaw in The Economist

Posted by Joanne Heslop on August 6, 2009

Check out this article in this week’s issue of The Economist on Arctic permafrost thaw. http://www.economist.com/sciencetechnology/displayStory.cfm?story_id=14119825

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Moving on to Phase Two

Posted by Joanne Heslop on August 2, 2009

Hello everyone. I hadn’t written a blog entry in awhile, so now that I am home and rested I thought I should post an update on where I…

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Final Reflections

Posted by Claire Griffin on August 2, 2009

I am, as Karen can attest to, a fairly indecisive person when it comes to my future. I worry a lot about whether I’m making the right choice,…

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Back from Moscow in 32 hours

Posted by Andy Bunn on August 1, 2009

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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