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by Maitane Iturrate August 8, 2013 Tomorrow, we are leaving Kytalyk. It seems that it was yesterday when we arrived by boat, but five weeks have gone. The last week has been specially stressing. As Angela Gallagher told us: “the last week, you will be running as chicks”. And that is exactly what I have […]

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by Gabriela Schaepman-Strub August 1, 2013 The regular reader of this blog might have noticed that the original group has split up into two parties: Maitane Iturrate and Inge Juszak will be staying for another 2 weeks in the field site at Kytalyk to continue the measurements, while the rest of the party has left the […]

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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 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 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 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 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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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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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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