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Making Outreach Connections
Today was a very special day for me. Through the good graces of our hosts here at the Northeast Science Station, and particularly Nastya, I was able…
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Expectations Exceeded
All of the expectations that I had of the tundra did not amount to the beauty and indescribable features of the landscape nor the vast variety of questions that…
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Out of the Field and into the Lab
Since we have returned form the tundra the core students have been working endlessly on preparing their samples and collecting the various measurements in the laboratories at the station….
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Voyage South
I knew I did not want to leave the tundra. As I stood with friends on the cliff next to the sand spit where the barge was parked, I…
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Stumbling Through the Tundra
Before I came to the tundra, I imagined it to be a vast, flat landscape. And it is indeed vast, but flat is the last word I would use…
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More Questions!
The core students have been working hard in the field collecting, mapping, photographing, and measuring their plots, streams, and ponds. Now that we are into the last days of…
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Pleistocene Park Part II: Mammoths, Microbes, and Machines
“Restoration of the Mammoth Steppe Ecosystem” is something of a tagline for the Pleistocene Park experiment. It’s called the Mammoth steppe because some think that the gigantic herbivores of…
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Back from the Tundra
Saturday July 19, 2014 The main Polaris group has returned safely from their epic expedition to the tundra. All are now in Cherskiy, where they’ll spend their remaining days analyzing samples…
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Pleistocene Park Part I: The Earth’s Spheres
There are plenty of natural processes that can change the earth. Tectonic plates move, thrusting seafloors underground and pushing mountains into the sky. Cycles in our orbit around the…
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Soil Lab Party!
Only a handful of returning students are still here at the North East Science Station. The Core and the rest of the students are up in the tundra, working…
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Halfway There!
7/13/2014 This first week in the tundra has been amazing! The area itself is so beautiful and full of unique and interesting landscapes. The combinations of wet and dry ground…
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Arctic Ground Squirrel
The scientists who study global carbon cycling and the processes affecting it are commonly bio-geochemists. There is a lengthy chain-link of scientists lined up trying to paint this picture….
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A Snapshot
The barge is the central hub of life. It hugs the shore of the Kolyma River, which at this latitude is about five kilometers across. The metal hull is…
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Hunting for Plans and UV light
I thought I knew what I wanted to study, and how to do it. I needed water—a stream that ran from headwaters down through beaded pools and into an…
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Skipping Stones in the Forest
Most scientists follow a path that leads them to becoming an expert in their field —just one aspect of scientific knowledge. Some people spend their time looking at plants…
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