Eight more time zones to go

Our experience in Russia has passed like one day during the three weeks we spent in Cherskiy where the sun didn’t dip below the horizon. We departed almost as…

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Is that a fish rising? No…

Today Eirik and I carried the inflatable boat down the dirt path towards Lake Shuchi (Pike’s Lake).  We turned right at the tipped over, rusty green refrigerator — a…

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Science playground

Greetings from Northeast Siberia.  I am in Cherskiy, where ruins of Soviet expansion litter our sampling sites. Just centimeters underground, the soil is frozen for decades on end.  In…

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