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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List of species and prices
16. July 2013 | Veruska Muccione | Comments Off on List of species and prices
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Social life in the tundra
13. July 2013 | Veruska Muccione | Comments Off on Social life in the tundra
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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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)
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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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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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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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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Communicating in the age of communication
29. June 2013 | Michael Schaepman | Keine Kommentare
by our staff writers June 29, 2013 No mobile phone tower nearby, project loon (balloon-powered internet access) not yet arrived in Kytalyk, and some communication satellites do not provide guaranteed coverage in our location (such as Thuraya and Inmarsat). So how do you communicate in such a remote location? Luckily there is a constellation of […]
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A little geography of the site
25. June 2013 | Michael Schaepman | 2 Kommentare
The low-Arctic tundra site is located in the Kytalyk (Rus: Кыталык) nature reserve in the Indigirka lowlands in northeast Siberia, Russia. The field site is located approximately 25 km north of Chokurdakh (Rus: Чокурдах) and around 480 km north of the Arctic Circle. Within a distance of 50km, four tundra vegetation types and the tundra-taiga […]
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