Chris Linder, my partner in crime/journalism on the Bering Sea trip, does this kind of thing all the time. A month and a half after we pulled into Dutch Harbor, he was off again – this time, to Siberia. Here’s the blog for the trip. He’s traveling with a bunch of professors and students, including some from Carleton College, my alma mater. They’re doing a summer field course on a river barge in the middle of nowhere. Ok, they’re in Eastern Siberia, not far from the Bering Sea. Like I said, the middle of nowhere.

Chris is doing both his job (taking pictures) and mine (interviewing scientists), and most of his work won’t appear until later on. But he’s posting a few of his pictures as he goes along, and of course they’re fantastic. Check it out!