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Coring Trees and Scaling Fish
July 12, 2008 Waking up early to help Sudeep organize his chlorophyll data, Kate and Boyd were busy analyzing and differentiating the data based on date and lake…
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New pictures
There are a few new pictures on the site. We are trying to get them up as fast as the connection here allows. -Andy Bunn, WWU
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Day 1 of fieldwork!
This morning began with fresh minds, fresh rolls (with jelly!) and a talk given by Katey Walter about her research on methane emissions from nearby lakes. These emissions have…
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Finally in Cherskii!
July 10th After an early morning wake up (4:30 am) and breakfast on the way to the airport, we left Yakutsk in a small prop airplane. While there had been…
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Data analysis and swimming in the Lena
July 9, 2008 (We were unable to post this due to disabled internet connection in Cherskiy) Waking up fairly early to a delicious breakfast in our hotel (thank you Katey and…
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Well wishes from the States…
Hey team, Holly here. I just wanted to let everyone know that I’m still alive and I made it back ok…just ten pounds lighter (new Russian dieting technique?). Turns out…
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Yakutsk, Eastern Siberian city of mammoth bones, permafrost, cultural diversity, and lattes!
Greeting from eastern Siberia. My name is Sudeep Chandra, one of the principal investigators on the Polaris Project and an assistant professor at the University of Nevada- Reno. Our trip…
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Home – NY – Moscow – Yakutsk… Cherskiy Tomorrow!
We are now several days into our trip and we’ll finally reach Cherskiy, our final destination, tomorrow (if all goes as planned). Things have gone mostly smoothly so far, with…
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Comments
The ‘Comments’ on the blogs have been set up to work correctly now. Readers feel free to comment. I’ll have to approve them but will try to do so…
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Здравствуите из Якутска!
We arrived in Yakutsk around 10 am yesterday due to a plane delay in Moscow. While the flight was technically a “red-eye”, it never was dark during its 6…
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Thoughts from the Moscow airport
July 7th, 2008 From the Moscow airport We have been traveling for a long time now and are waiting for, in some…
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ресторан москва кафе стоп банк россна
We arrived into Moscow early around 10:00 a.m. planning on spending several hours going through customs and ended up passing right through. Arriving at our ‘hotel’ nicknamed the Green…
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Moscow
We arrived in Moscow at dawn on July six. We made it through customs in a fairly short amount of…
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Leg one completed
Tyler, Holly and I finished the first of our three overnight flights after landing at JFK at 7:00AM from Seattle. We met up with the St. Olaf crew fresh…
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Just about ready..
So I think I’m pretty packed and ready! More than anything I’m excited to finally begin this experience! It finally hit me that I’m GOING TO SIBERIA tomorrow morning! …
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