by our staff writers July 11, 2013 In it’s regular acquisition scheme, Landsat 8 maps the same location on Earth every 16 days. On July 5, 2013, Landsat 8 observed the Kytalyk area under an almost cloud-free scenario*. NASA’s Landsat program is a series of Earth observing satellites operating since 1972 almost continuously! The first […]
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Colordiversity (NASA/USGS Landsat 8 to map Kytalyk on July 5)
11. July 2013 | Michael Schaepman | Comments Off on Colordiversity (NASA/USGS Landsat 8 to map Kytalyk on July 5)
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Speices mapping unraveled
9. July 2013 | Maitane Iturrate Garcia | Comments Off on Speices mapping unraveled
by Maitane Iturrate Kytalyk, July 9, 2013 Back to work again, since yesterday we took the day off. Our first “free” day, although the concept of free was a bit weird: chop wood, carry wood, pump water, manage waste disposal, clean, tidy up… Luckily, past 16:30h it became a really free day, even dinner was […]
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Kytalyk site infrastructure
7. July 2013 | Gabriela Schaepman-Strub | Keine Kommentare
by Gabriela Schaepman-Strub Kytalyk, July 7, 2013 It’s really windy today with a few raindrops in between. To give some rest to my healing ankle I am only doing one outdoor shift a day, reducing the hours of leg-breaking tundra walking. On days like these I am quite lucky with my fate… On the other […]
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Out in the wild for one week already
5. July 2013 | Gabriela Schaepman-Strub | Keine Kommentare
by Gabriela Schaepman-Strub Kytalyk, July 5, 2013 Yesterday evening we sat together with Lena, the cook, ordering food and all other essentials such as toilet paper. For planning future food supply, she wanted to know when people will arrive and leave from the site. We wrote a small shopping list, now hanging at the wall […]
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A good Siberian crane and science year!
4. July 2013 | Gabriela Schaepman-Strub | Keine Kommentare
by Gabriela Schaepman-Strub Kytalyk, July 4, 2013 This is the fourth time I am spending fieldwork time out here in Kytalyk. Every year is special in some way. 2008 was very wet, the water level of the river only went down very late in the season; 2010 was very hot. 2012 was the year of […]
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Vegetation-atmosphere interactions and biodiversity change
3. July 2013 | Maitane Iturrate Garcia | Keine Kommentare
by Maitane Iturrate Kytalyk, July 3, 2013 During this year’s first field campaign, my main objective of the field work is to characterize, in terms of biodiversity, the research area, including a floodplain, lowland tundra and a hillside. To reach this objective, measurement plots will be selected in these areas, the species composition is determined […]
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What’s up in the air and on ground?
2. July 2013 | Inge Juszak | Keine Kommentare
by Inge Juszak Kytalyk, July 2, 2013 Very north (71°) and very east (148°) Siberia is composed of lots of permafrost, wetlands and patterned vegetation. That’s why I join the mosquitoes this summer in Kytalyk. I’m interested in assessing the influence of vegetation, mainly sedges and dwarf-shrubs, on the energy balance of the soil. While […]
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Cooking in the tundra
1. July 2013 | Gabriela Schaepman-Strub | Keine Kommentare
by Gabriela Schaepman-Strub Kytalyk, July 1, 2013 It’s Illias second birthday today! Last year we celebrated his first birthday here in the tundra already. Lena, Illias mother and our cook, prepared a wonderful blue birthday cake for him last year and a lot of food for the whole group of people, some even came from […]
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