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I spent a little over five weeks in the field with Mike Loranty, but it feels like we left just last week. Time really does fly when you are having fun. Our days were packed with field work,…
Fun with power tools
Now, I've been lucky enough to do some pretty cool stuff this trip in the name of science, but these last couple days are going to be tough to top. There is something about…
Tundra
The Northeast Science Station (NESS) is located about 30 miles south of the Arctic ocean just off of the Kolyma River. The station is located above the Arctic circle, 68 degrees north of the…
Hell Hole
View of the high severity burn site named the "Hell Hole"
Always up for the challenge
Today I visited a new site across the Kolyma River called the "Hell Hole," which was…
Today after breakfast we packed our backpacks for a day in the field down the river. The objective was to survey another area to mount sap flow sensors on shrubs for comparison with our low and high…
Sap wood measurements
Now that we have our sap flow instrumentation set up on the trees and shrubs we just monitor the data weekly to make sure that everything is running the way it should be. In an…
24 hours of Light at 68°N
It's another sunny day here in Cherskiy. In fact, it's sunny during every hour of the day here right now. Some people have been asking about what it's like to experience 24…
Roots
Over the last two days we re-visited the low and high density forests to take some soil samples to process back in the lab. The focus of the samples was on the roots within the soil and where…
Currently at the science station it is pretty quiet as far as visitors go. Right now it’s just me, Mike Loranty, and Heather Kropp from Colgate University, but come July 5 that will all change when a…
I thought I would use this journal to discuss the type of equipment we will be using and what they will measure, along with some definitions of terms used to describe the field sites. To obtain many…
Life at the Station
Hello from the North-East Science Station (NESS) in Cherskiy, Russia. The time here is GMT +11 or 15 hours ahead of New York.
The North-East Science Station (NESS) is a year-…
Guten Tag
Guten tag from Germany!
We arrived in Potsdam on Friday evening, June 17 after about an hour and a half bus/ train/ tram ride from the Berlin Tegel airport. Since we had not eaten a…
