South Pole Ozone Changes Resources

Overview

This data plotting lesson compares different stratospheric ozone data collected at the South Pole in September 1969, September 1998, September 2008, January 1999, and January 2008. This ozone comparison activity allows students to make conclusions about the annual and seasonal ozone hole as well as overall ozone concentration changes over Antarctica. Students use authentic data collected at the

Overview

This data plotting lesson is about temperature changes throughout the atmosphere. The data was collected together with the ozone data in January 2008. The temperature vs. altitude profile allows students to make conclusions about annual and seasonal temperature changes in the atmosphere up to about 35 kilometers in the stratosphere. The best part of this lesson is using

Skokie Review staff writer Kathy Routliffe writes about PolarTREC teacher Elke Bergholz and her experiences at South Pole Station, Antarctica.

Live from IPY event with Elke Bergholz and researchers at South Pole Station, Antarctica.

Elke Bergholz was joined by NOAA atmospheric researcher, David Hofmann to discuss their research taking place at the South Pole Station, Antarctica. Due to technical difficulties, Elke was unable to join the audio portion of the call and the archive is only visual, the audio portion did not record. For audio, please access the separate attached audio file.