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Pleistocene Park Part II: Mammoths, Microbes, and Machines
“Restoration of the Mammoth Steppe Ecosystem” is something of a tagline for the Pleistocene Park experiment. It’s called the Mammoth steppe because some think that the gigantic herbivores of…
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Pleistocene Park Part I: The Earth’s Spheres
There are plenty of natural processes that can change the earth. Tectonic plates move, thrusting seafloors underground and pushing mountains into the sky. Cycles in our orbit around the…
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Soil Lab Party!
Only a handful of returning students are still here at the North East Science Station. The Core and the rest of the students are up in the tundra, working…
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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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Natural Bias: How We Think About Nature
A few weeks ago the core group members, a few of PI’s, and I met over the internet and chatted about the upcoming summer. After going over logistics, basic…
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A Year Ago Tomorrow: Thoughts from AGU
All of this science talk made me think about how much my situation had changed in the past year. I was busy a year ago. It was simultaneously my senior…
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A System Within A Bigger System
With two more days left in San Fransisco and a poster presentation successfully completed, I have taken some time to reflect on my experience at the American…
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Underground
Since the arctic is underlain by a layer of permafrost, soil that remains frozen year-round, water does not penetrate far into the ground from the surface. However, the thawed…
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