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One of the goals of the Greening of the Arctic project is to examine the trends in vegetation, soils, permafrost characteristics, and surface spectral properties along a complete Arctic transect in Russia. The transect stretches from Nadym at 65˚ 19’ N to Krenkel Station 80˚ 38’ and consists of seven study locations in all five of the Arctic bioclimate subzones and the forest-tundra transition(Figure 1). This work is comparable to the work recently published for the North America Arctic Transect (Walker D. A. et al. 2008). The 2010 expedition to Hayes Island in the Franz Josef Land Archipelago completed the Eurasia Arctic Transect (EAT). This expedition was the fourth of the project. Data reports from the previous three NASA-GOA Russia expeditions (Walker et al. 2008, 2009a, 2009b)are available online at http://www.geobotany.uaf.edu/yamal/reports.