The last few days have been quite busy, but productive. However, none of the tasks I managed to get done sounds particularly spectacular: comparison of moss moisture measurement techniques, small-scale mapping, and taking photographs of polygons. Neither do they look particularly spectacular (at least to the untrained eye). I thus refrain from posting any pictures […]

The days since the last post have been busy (as usual, but not business as usual). On Monday we had a little party, as it was the last evening of the expedition for the majority of the participants, as well as my birthday. Thanks again to Julia, Biggi and Antje for all the preparations and […]

On Monday and Wednesday Birgit, Annett and I attended to several soil/moss moisture stations in Kurugnakh: we checked the local conditions as well as the state of the instruments. We had to remove one of them, or rather its remains, as the lemmings had apparently taken a liking to its cables. We also measured moisture […]

We have finally arrived in Samoylov! We got here on Friday afternoon, after a five-hour boat trip from Tiksi, which we had reached by plane from Moscow (with a slight delay of 18-odd hours). The following day we boarded the boat again, this time to go to Kurugnakh Island, where we spent all day exploring […]