Ludda uses a soil saw to take a soil core from a burn plot.
The university students of the Polaris Project each work on independent research. Periodically, I will share the stories of these remarkable young people. Ludda Ludwig – St. Olaf College This…
Vasily Lebedev and Dr. Karen Frey on Shuch’ye Lake.
The university students of the Polaris Project each work on independent research. Periodically, I will share the stories of these remarkable young people. Vasily Lebedev – Graduate Student at…
Device 1: The plexiglass cube above has five solid sides but no base.
What are these two devices used for? Device 1: The plexiglass cube above has five solid sides but no base. Device 2: The plastic cylinder inside the tube is analogous to the cube. Here’s a…
Mark does weight lifting on the barge – a mammoth femur and a dumbbell!
Last night after our 9:00 p.m. dinner, we all piled onto the barge hooked up to a tug boat and headed up the Kolyma River. At 1:30 p.m. just after lunch today, we arrived at a magical place –…
My companions to Rodinka were Sasha, Valentin, and Varvara - the drilling team!
Mt. Rodinka, a small mountain (351 m) rises from essentially sea level east of the Northeast Science Station. It sits in front of a many higher and larger mountains in the distance. Rodinka, I have…
Several Polaris Project members collaborated on this wireless internet set-up.
Here's a newly coined word: Inter-nyet “Nyet” is the Russian word for “No” or “None.” Over the last few days, we have had only “inter-nyet,” – although not technically a Russian or English word,…
Khalida Dautova stuffs the fresh homemade dough with the moose meat filler.
I thought for sure that I would lose a few pounds roughing it in extreme northern Siberia. You know – competing with bears for available game or fishing by hand in the rivers… I was wrong. Very,…
Dr. Alexander (Sasha) Kholodov carries a bore hole bit toward the drilling rig.
Don’t forget, you can follow the blogs of the students on the Polaris Project with me at: http://www.thepolarisproject.org. How can you get your hands on permafrost? Over the last few days, I have…
Bags and bundles of dried vegetation fuel were carried to the burn site.
Don’t forget, you can follow the blogs of the students on the Polaris Project with me at: http://www.thepolarisproject.org. Conducting an Experimental Burn This morning, Dr. Heather Alexander’s…
Peter Gaxlin (left) and Dr. Heather Alexander fluff the moss in one plot.
In field science, some things are hands-on; others should be left alone. Moss Fluffing – It’s the newest scientific terminology! You may ask yourself, “What is moss fluffing?” Today, Dr. Heather…
A comparison of the air from Colorado water bottles in front of Orbita.
So what happens if you fill a plastic bottle with air on the 14,265-foot summit of a Colorado mountain and bring it down to sea level in Cherskiy, Siberia? This is the experiment proposed by my…
Mike, Miles, and Mark model our marvelous bug shirts.
Today, I had the privilege of working with Dr. Heather Alexander of the University of Texas at Brownsville and her team, setting up 16 plots for an experimental burn to determine how the severity of…