Kuril Islands, Russia Galleries

Yankicha, Kuril Islands : Yankicha is a small island in the Kuril Chain that is essentially the caldera of a volcano poking up through the sea. The Kuril Biocomplexity Project visited this island in 2007 for research and R&R at the end of our voyage. The beaches inside feature sulfurous vents and boiling hot springs!

Yankicha, Kuril Islands

Yankicha is a small island in the Kuril Chain that is essentially the ...

Updated: Jan 02, 2008 6:24am PST

Simushir, Kuril Islands : Photos from the Kuril Biocomplexity Project's 2007 excursion. These photos are specifically from the embayment on the west side of the island called Nakatamori. Here we conducted archaeological and geological research.

Simushir, Kuril Islands

Photos from the Kuril Biocomplexity Project's 2007 excursion. These ph ...

Updated: Dec 30, 2007 11:42pm PST

Matua, Kuril Islands, Russia : Photos from the Kuril Island Biocomplexity Project, 2006 field season. The KBP is an interdisciplinary, international project attempting to model human-environment interactions during the past 7,000 years in the Kuril Islands, Russian Far East. These islands are little known or studied, given their sensitive military, political, and resource situation. This set is from our time on tiny Matua Island surveying archaeological sites around Ainu Bay.

Matua, Kuril Islands, Russia

Photos from the Kuril Island Biocomplexity Project, 2006 field season. ...

Updated: Aug 19, 2007 11:14pm PST

Shiashkotan : Shots of Shiashkotan in the central Kuril Islands during the 2007 expedition of the Kuril Biocomplexity Project.

Shiashkotan

Shots of Shiashkotan in the central Kuril Islands during the 2007 expe ...

Updated: Nov 15, 2007 5:03am PST

Ketoi, Kuril Islands, Russia : Photos from the Kuril Island Biocomplexity Project, 2006 field season. The KBP is an interdisciplinary, international project attempting to model human-environment interactions during the past 7,000 years in the Kuril Islands, Russian Far East. These islands are little known or studied, given their sensitive military, political, and resource situation. This set is from our time near Ketoi Island deploying field crews to shore.

Ketoi, Kuril Islands, Russia

Photos from the Kuril Island Biocomplexity Project, 2006 field season. ...

Updated: Aug 19, 2007 11:14pm PST

Onekotan, Kuril Islands, Russia : Photos from the Kuril Island Biocomplexity Project, 2006 field season. The KBP is an interdisciplinary, international project attempting to model human-environment interactions during the past 7,000 years in the Kuril Islands, Russian Far East. These islands are little known or studied, given their sensitive military, political, and resource situation. This set is from our time near Onekotan Island deploying field crews to shore.

Onekotan, Kuril Islands, Russia

Photos from the Kuril Island Biocomplexity Project, 2006 field season. ...

Updated: Aug 19, 2007 11:13pm PST