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University of Nevada Reno Tells the Story!
One of the objectives of the Polaris Project is to help get the story of the Arctic, climate change, and the Polaris Project to as broad an audience as…
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The New York Times…
A story about the Polaris Project has just been posted to Andy Revkin’s Dot Earth blog at the New York Times. I think it is safe to say that…
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Polaris Project in the News…
An article about the Polaris Project was just published in Field Notes, the National Science Foundation’s Arctic logistics contractor Polar Field Services. To view the article, click
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Optimism…
Most of the Polaris Project participants have probably heard me say how seeing the airplane that we take from Yakutsk to Cherskiy immediately separates the optimists from the pessimists. …
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Where is “the Arctic”?
In the previous post, Sudeep Chandra says that he hopes they’ll be able to post additional updates from Yakutsk before leaving for “the Arctic”. This raises the question: Where…
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Asleep (hopefully) in Moscow…
As I write this while sitting in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, at 8:20 pm Eastern time, I’m hoping that all members of the expedition team are now sleeping soundly in…
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Polaris Project in the News
As Andy Bunn mentioned, on June 30 an article about the Polaris Project was published in EOS, the weekly publication of the American Geophysical Union (AGU). You can view…
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Onward!
Well, after months of planning and anticipation, the Polaris Project expedition to Siberia begins today. Congratulations to everyone for all of the work that has gotten us confidently to…
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Welcome New Students!
We have just completed the selection of students for the 2009 Polaris Project field course. It was a grueling process because we received applications from many more exceptional students…
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Homeward bound…
We’re all currently sitting in an cafe in Moscow, reflecting on the past 3+ weeks of the Polaris Project and getting excited about the fact that we’re heading…
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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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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’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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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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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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