Michalel I hope you are having fun hiking around the Finnish woods... You mentioned in your May 9th journal that you are using pollen and other proxies to study past climates. On my expedition to Lake El'gygytgyn, we were also using many different proxies such as diatoms, pollen, sedimentaiton rates, various isotopes, organic chemicals and magnetic properties of the sediments. Since we have discussed proxies in my classes, I was wondering what other proxies your team is examining? T-Mart