Category: Hydrology and diversity in Siberian Meadows

by davidgowing2013

Fun on the floodplain

The SiberNiche team have been at the Mukhrino Field Station in Siberia for over a week now.  The setting for the station is magical, perched in the woods between a tributary of the River Irtish and the huge raised bogs on the higher land behind.  Most of the scientists at the station are concerned with […]

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by davidgowing2013

Getting set for Siberia

My colleague and I fly to Siberia tomorrow after a nervous wait to receive our visas from the Russian embassy. The visas arrived with three days to spare!  Once there we plan to map how meadow vegetation varies with soil hydrology across the floodplain of the River Ob.  Our project is called SiberNiche. An advance party […]

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