Permafrost outreach 2009

The University of Alaska EPSCoR program, NASA IPY and NSF IPY, Thermal State of Permafrost programs are conducting an outreach effort in conjunction with it's research focus on permafrost and infrastructure. The outreach effort has been termed the "Permafrost Health" program and consists of installing permafrost temperature monitoring systems!

Thursday, August 23, 2007

 

to Yakutsk






We picked up Kenji's luggage at airport. Then we catch another airplane from another airport for Yakutsk.
Yakutsk is located along the Lena River 6 hour plane ride from Moscow. There are many interesting culture by the native Yakutian, especially, horse meat stew was excellent! Also world famouse Yakutsk Permafrost Institute is located this town.
Our host and lead Scientist Prof. Mikhail Zheleznyak pick us up at airport.





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