Siberia Blog

by our staff writers August 14, 2013 Thank you all, for contributing, reading and supporting our activities! This is the last blog entry for the summer 2013 season. Finally, everyone has returned safely and without major hassle, injuries or other happenings! We wish to thank all contributors to this successful expedition and hope you have […]

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by Maitane Iturrate August 13, 2013 It is 10 o’clock and everything is packed and ready. In less than two hours, we will be at Yakutsk airport, heading back home. Today will be a long, long day (a day of 32 hours incuding the change of time zones). We arrived at Yakutsk, again, yesterday morning, […]

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by Michael Schaepman Yakutsk, August 8, 2013 Communicating an overall impression of the Tundra and Taiga is tricky. In particular when we are used to see a mountain upfront every few kilometers, such as usually in Switzerland :-). The open and wide skies are really impressive out here! We therefore share a few examples of […]

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by our staff writers August 7, 2013 The region around Kytalyk is characterized by some of the World’s strongest spatial gradients. Most conspicuous is the temperature gradient. The northern part of the region borders the Siberian Sea and is more temperate than the inland, although it is still extreme compared to our sense of temperate. […]

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by Inge Juszak Kytalyk, August 5, 2013 Today it’s finally my turn to write a blog entry. I changed the topic from “The 14 most urgent things to do before we leave” to “The weather in Kytalyk this summer”. “Up and running” would also be a good title. But let’s stick to the weather. It’s […]

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by Angela Gallagher Kytalyk, July 31, 2013 This is my finally summer in Kytalyk and I will be leaving in a few days to return to Amsterdam.  I have been lucky enough to have travelled to Kytayk five times, both during the summer and during the Siberian spring where temperatures can be as low as […]

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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 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 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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