Kayaking Siberia's Lake Baikal to Evaluate the Effect of Climate Change
by Anna Gleizer '14, Stefansson Research Fellowship, Lake Baikal, Russia During summer 2012, I became the youngest woman to kayak the circumference of Siberia's Lake Baikal. The journey through Russia and into eastern Siberia took two weeks and the circumnavigation itself lasted 45 days, during which I collected hydrology data for an independent research project aimed at evaluating the effect of global climate change and localized anthropomorphic pollution on the quality of Baikal water.
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