Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 04/26/2011 - 10:48

Howdy from Redd School! Good day to the reader who is reading this and thank you for taking the time to answer my questions. Since my teacher is involved in this project, I am curious as to what answers that may be unraveled.

As for my first question, what kind of difficulties do you expect to encounter during your journey? Is there any limitations that have been place on you as far as research and access goes? Because the weather conditions and other affairs could severely affect how well you could document the area and surrounding wildlife. Not to mention, are there any side project that you would like to research if the opportunity and time arises? It would serve just as another added bonus to this project if you ask me if you took the extra mile just for it.

What do you expect to achieve during this time? Do you desire to do more than the given project?

Another thing, would you consider spreading this knowledge to other sites rather than limiting it to this websites and classrooms? It would seem fruitful to involve many in studying these topics. Not to mention getting the interest of others and promoting awareness of the issue.

Well, at the moment, that is all I have to offer at the top of my head. I hope I haven't confused nor bored you with these questions if they are trivial or already have been answered.

As always, kudos to you and the team for taking part of this noble effort.

Yours truly,

A student from the Redd middle school.

Lollie Garay

Hi Sam,Well, in the short time that is allowed for sampling here, every minute is spent focused on the objectives planned long before the actual expedition.
As always, there are new questions or topics coming up that scientists would like to find answers to. That usually involves organizing another expedition or study though. I can tell you that the researchers on the ArcticNitro team are very focused on the sampling they are doing to collect data that will help them understand the differences during the different seasons here.
And yes, we are sharing this story through the team website (http://arcticnitro.org ) as well as developing informative educational outreach, such as this forum on PolarTREC :)
Thanks for your interest!
Lollie