Physical Science Collection

Univisión Puerto Rico (WLII-TV channel 11) live television interview with Eliezer Ramos and Armando Caussade. This resource is in Spanish.

Spanish Article Title: Profesor puertorriqueño participará en una misión científica en la Antártida An EFE wire service news story published in Primera Hora, about Armando Caussade heading to the South Pole as part of the IceCube project. This resource is in Spanish. This story was also published in: Índice PR, El Expresso de Puerto Rico, MSN Latino, Fox News Latino

Spanish Article Title: Profesor puertorriqueño realizará investigaciones en el Polo Sur

A news story from Mi Puerto Rico Verde (online environmental news) about Armando Caussade heading to the South Pole as part of the IceCube project. This resource is in Spanish.

Spanish Article Title: Sondeando los confines del universo detectando neutrinos

A Diario de Puerto Rico news story about Armando Caussade heading to the South Pole as part of the IceCube project. Also published in Telemundo Puerto Rico (WKAQ-TV channel 2). This resource is in Spanish.

Spanish Article Title: Profesor puertorriqueño investigará en la Antártida

A NotiCel news story about Armando Caussade heading to the South Pole as part of the IceCube project. This resource is in Spanish.

Overview

Exploration of the Antarctic continent did not occur until the late 1800’s, and the South Pole was first reached on December 14, 1911. Courage, planning, and technology have been the main components of Antarctic exploration from the earliest days. This classroom activity is designed to highlight the historical elements of the past 100 years of exploration in Antarctica and

This one hour live event takes place in Greenland with Russell Hood and the NASA Operation IceBridge team.

Spanish Article Title: Puertorriqueño visitará el Polo Sur para investigación científica con PolarTREC

English Article Title: Puerto Rican educator will visit the South Pole for scientific research with PolarTREC

An online news story about teacher Armando Caussade heading to the South Pole as part of the IceCube project. This resource is in both Spanish and English.

Spanish Article Title: Armando Caussade rumbo al Polo Sur

Online story about Armando Caussade heading to the South Pole as part of the IceCube project. This resource is in Spanish.

Spanish Article Title: Puertorriqueño formará parte de misión científica al Polo Sur

A news story about PolarTREC teacher Armando Caussade traveling to the South Pole as part of the IceCube project in December 2014. This resource is in Spanish.

Researchers aboard NASA's P-3 research aircraft left Virginia, March 10 for Greenland to begin a new season of collecting data on Arctic land and sea ice. The mission, known as Operation IceBridge, is to gather data on changes to polar ice. PolarTREC teacher Russell Hood will join the expedition in Greenland this spring.

PolarTREC alumni Alex Eilers created this mini-exhibit about Antarctica for the Pink Palace Museum in Memphis, Tennessee. The exhibit highlights a variety of topics as well as Ms. Eilers personal experiences in Antarctica. Topics explored include: dressing for the cold Antarctic climate, research on the Weddell seal, the history of human exploration in Antarctica, and extreme facts about the coldest

This one hour webinar is designed for educators as polar professional development. Dr. Okkonen details his work on the project studying bowhead whales and oceanographic conditions in their environment.

Overview

NASA's Operation IceBridge images Earth's polar ice in unprecedented detail to better understand processes that connect the Polar Regions with the global climate system. IceBridge uses a specialized fleet of aircraft and the most sophisticated suite of science instruments ever assembled to gather data on sea ice, glaciers, and ice sheets. The data gathered today will allow future scientists

Overview

NASA's Operation IceBridge images Earth's polar ice in unprecedented detail to better understand processes that connect the Polar Regions with the global climate system. IceBridge uses a specialized fleet of aircraft and the most sophisticated suite of science instruments ever assembled to gather data on sea ice, glaciers, and ice sheets. The data gathered today will allow future scientists

This one hour live web event is hosted by Mark Buesing. Mark worked with the NASA IceBridge team to survey polar ice over Greenland in 2013.

Journal article about Lesley Urasky's PolarTREC expedition, Glacial History in Antarctica, published in "In the Trenches", the news magazine of the National Association of Geoscience Teachers.

Rawlins Daily Times newspaper article about Lesley Urasky's upcoming PolarTREC expedition to Antarctica for the 2010-2011 research season

This one hour PolarConnect event is with Jamie Esler and the research team in central Iceland. The focus of this event is on drumlin formations and their importance.

This National Science Foundation Press Release details how PolarTREC teacher Paula Dell's students designed and built their own underwater camera rig to observe and record Antarctic Fish. Their device was successfully deployed this year in the waters off Antarctica.

Overview

How can the ocean be colder than 0 degrees C, the temperature at which water freezes? As it turns out, the concentration of the particles (in this case, the ions from the salt) in ocean water lowers the temperature at which the saltwater will freeze. Students will learn how ocean water freezes at a lower temperature than freshwater by

This presentation to the District 128 school board highlighted the science and adventure of NASA's Operation IceBridge and why science, technology, engineering, and math are vital to all our students. Links and credits to videos in the presentation can all be found in the video information on YouTube.

ScienceDaily article on Rose Cory's latest research on CO2 and melting permafrost.

This student lesson focuses on plate tectonics and large-scale system interactions, utilizing PolarTREC teacher Brian DuBay's Transantarctic Mountains expedition videos. Objectives: The student will investigate, make observations, and analyze geologic processes of plate tectonics. Key concepts include: a) how geologic processes are evidenced in Antarctic mountains; b) tectonic processes (compressional, tensional, and transversal forces). Adapted by Michelle Brand Buhanan for

Article describing the final stages of this year's Operation IceBridge, the NASA campaign to maintain and expand on Arctic ice measurements. Along with PolarTREC teacher Mark Buesing, the IceBridge team has successfully completed a variety of aerial measurements on sea ice, sub-ice bedrock and Greenland's glaciers.