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Wonder and Fear
Mammoths started it all. Growing up I became infatuated with monsters of the ice age, reading with awe and terror of past geological epochs. Giant sloths, sabre tooth cats…
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Extending the Senses
Prior to sitting down and beginning to write this post I hadn’t given much thought as to what I would study in Siberia. My scientific background has focused on…
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From Salt Marsh to Siberia
My name is Jessica, I am a recent graduate of Brown University and I am from Mansfield, Massachusetts. My interests in science begin on the beaches of New England,…
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From the Caribbean to the Arctic…Wait, whaaat?
Being the only participant who comes from Puerto Rico (where it is summer practically the whole year and where English is not the first language), the decision to go…
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Hello from the Land of Long Winters
My name’s Nigel Golden and I am a Pointer. For those who are not familiar with the name, it signifies that I’m a student at the University of Wisconsin…
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Change for the Best
I have always been very interested in ecology. However up until recently I didn’t know how to pursue my interests, and I had never been encouraged to do so….
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Beneath My Feet
When I first told my family and close friends that I would be traveling across the world to spend a month doing fieldwork in Siberia, there was a lot…
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Impacts of Reaching Out in Texas
Recently I participated in an outreach event with Dr. Heather Alexander, Aaron White and Erika Ramos. Our goal was to expose South Texas high school students to the world…
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Understanding the Invisible
In one of our first online discussions, each of us core students talked about an environment we had spent some time observing. Han kicked us off by…
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Communicating Arctic Science, from a science meeting to a high school classroom
Last week (May 18-23) marked the first annual Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography’s Joint Aquatic Sciences Meeting (JASM). While the Polaris showing at the JASM wasn’t…
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Congratulations to Polaris Participants and Alumni!
As Polaris Project students advance in their academic careers, they continue to achieve scientific successes through publications, presentations at national meetings, and awards and fellowships. Just to highlight a…
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Polaris 2014 Reading List
The Core faculty–John Schade, Mike Loranty, and I–have come up with a reading list for the new Polaris students who will be travelling to the tundra in July. The…
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Polaris 2014 Research Goals
Following our Polaris Retreat and Arctic Field Class, plans for the 2014 expedition are falling into place, and the excitement is building for our group’s next meeting at…
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What does the Great Sippewissett Marsh have to do with Siberia?
As John Wood mentioned in his blog about the Polaris Project Retreat, we spent some time in the Great Sippewissett Marsh last weekend in preparation for our trip to…
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The 2014 Polaris season is underway!
Last weekend in Falmouth, Massachusetts we were all given the opportunity to get together for some safety training, some team building, and time to get to know one another…
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