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Packing, preparing, etc.
So the past few days have been spent getting together all of the unfamiliar equipment I’ve acquired this summer and trying to fit them into one duffel bag. …
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Ready to Go!
After several months of work, on March 16, 2007, we submitted our Polaris Project proposal to the National Science Foundation’s International Polar Year grant competition. Six months later we…
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Max and Anya on the radio…
Max and Russian student Anya Suslova did an interview on public radio about the Student Partners Project. They give a great interview and talk about the Polaris…
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The Sea Ice Pool
Betting on future climate has become a phenomenon on lately. See here and here, and here. (Those are all blogs…
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Max’s Update from Yakutsk, Siberia
As part of another NSF funded project, I’m in Russia for ~3 weeks with a group of four people. Two have never been to Russia before, so in some…
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Frey to conduct fieldwork in the northern Bering Sea on the Coast Guard Cutter Healy icebreaker
In addition to having research interests in impacts of permafrost thaw on land-ocean linkages of carbon and nutrients in Siberia, my research also investigates carbon dynamics in coastal…
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Methane Madness
Who I Am I am an aquatic an aquatic ecologist and biogeochemist interested in carbon and nutrient cycling between terrestrial and aquatic systems, the cryosphere and atmosphere. I am also one…
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Holy Cross Professor Eager to Extend Reseach and Teaching Efforts to Arctic Ecosystems
I am a stream biogeochemist and ecologist who has studied the fate of terrestrial-derived organic matter and aquatic primary production in a variety of aquatic ecosystems spanning from small…
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Meet the team…
The Polaris Project is moving forward. The team is in the process of selecting the inaugural class for the field class and we are going start blogging…
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The winter weather in Cherskii
While perusing wunderground.com, I checked out the temperature in Cherskii. It’s cold over there right now, which makes sense at 69°N….
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14,000 and growing…
Every December a huge number of scientists gather in San Francisco for the fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union (AGU). This year there were over 14,000 attendees,…
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Sea ice
Arctic ice, both sea and land, has been in the news quite a lot lately and I expect we’ll hear more about it once the world’s leading ice scientists…
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Welcome to the Polaris Project website and blog
‘Global warming’ is all over the news these days, mainly because of changes that are happening far away or because of events we fear may happen some time in…
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Northward Bound!
The Polaris Project will give undergraduate students the opportunity to witness the changing Arctic first-hand as they participate in a field course and research experience in northeastern Siberia (8…
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The Polaris Project Web Site is Live
Well, somehow I didn’t hide underneath the desk fast enough when Max asked how we were going to get a Polaris Project web site up. I…
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