Siberia Blog

by Michael Schaepman July 27, 2013 Travelling far raises expectations and wishes! Also this time, we were well prepared with questions and wishes before leaving and we try now to answer some of them, prior to returning for more details … Samuel from the soil group provided the team with tubes to be lowered into […]

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by our staff writers July 25, 2013 The following images illustrate the strong responses seen in radar backscatter data when the winter snow melts in the region, usually in late May and June.  The data shown below was acquired by the ASAR sensor on the ENVISAT satellite in 2010.  The data was acquired using the […]

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by Maitane Iturrate July 25, 2013 It is late July and outside is windy, rainy and very cold with temperatures of 5 degrees Celsius, but at least no mosquitos. We have reached the point where it is very difficult to know the date or how many days are left before returning home. Every day the […]

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by Gabriela Schaepman-Strub Kytalyk, July 23, 2013 Last evening at Kytalyk station, after living and working out in the wild for 3 weeks! Usually it’s a strange moment just before leaving – packing, thinking about when to come back next time, being sad to leave this interesting, quiet place where you hear the boats from […]

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by Gabriela Schaepman-Strub Kytalyk, July 22, 2013 The area around Chokurdah is ideal to study the effects of climate change on vegetation and feedbacks, as over a relatively short distance at least five different vegetation zones are present that can be studied. So far we only concentrated on Kytalyk (southern hypoarctic tundra according to the […]

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by Gabriela Schaepman-Strub Kytalyk, July 19, 2013 The story goes as follows: We had a very long walk yesterday to the pingo (Rus: була), about 4.5km away from our station, with many stops for vegetation relevees to complete our local flora. Wonderful weather, warm, the upcoming wind nicely kept the mosquitoes away. We found many […]

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by Binxi Li Kytalyk, July 17, 2013 Hi everyone :-)! This is Bingxi Li from Wageningen University, the Netherlands this time. Today I volunteered to write a new blog and this time I will try to show you the beauty of eastern Siberian tundra through my eyes. This is my third summer season in Kytalyk […]

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by Gabriela Schaepman-Strub Kytalyk, July 16, 2013 Time is running too fast and in one week we will be travelling up north to explore a hillside area and Russkoe Ustje, a village close to the Indigirka delta. Tomorrow I will be picked up to participate in a ceremony for the opening of the Tundra-taiga Forest […]

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by Gabriela Schaepman-Strub Kytalyk, July 15, 2013 Yesterday we downloaded the first few days of data from the two energy flux towers on wet sedge and dry dwarf birch patches. The data looks reasonably good so far. We did catch a very sunny day resulting in a beautiful irradiance curve. The towers include an albedometer, […]

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by Gabriela Schaepman-Strub Kytalyk, July 11, 2013 In addition to the scientific research we are running a social experiment out here – we are only missing a control group 😉 There are PhD students experiencing the site conditions for the first time. The PhDs who do research out here usually arrive as very independent personalities […]

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