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This Live from IPY! Event was held with PolarTREC Teacher Cameo Slaybaugh and her project PI, Stacy Kim who are members of the Antarctic Undersea ROV '08 PolarTREC expedition. The team talked about the underwater ROV, SCINI, and the research they are conducting in the waters surrounding Ross Island, Antarctica.

Article about teacher, Robin Ellwood and her expedition to Antarctica, 2008. From The New Hampshire, a student-run newspaper with the University of New Hampshire.

This is an online story about Robin Ellwood in Foster.Com, an online news service for Foster's Daily Democrat.

This is presentation provides an overview about sea ice in Antarctica as presented by Dr. Patricia Yager. She has slides about the daylight and seasons and related sea ice concentrations. She also has several slides about sea ice as a habitat and about the types of organisms associated with the sea ice. The main part of this presentation focuses on

This underwater movie shows the ROV or Remotely Operated Vehicle, SCINI (Submersible Capable of Under Ice Navigation and Imaging) working under the ice in Antarctica.

Lake El'gygytgyn (also called, Lake E) permafrost drilling started in mid-November of 2008. The ICDP (International Continental Drilling Program) is posting news reports and images to this blog several times each week. Check out early reports from Lake E.

This Live from IPY! event was held on 24 November 2008 with Cameo Slaybaugh and the SCINI Team and Robin Ellwood and the ENDURANCE Team--both conducting research in Antarctica using underwater robotics.

CARE Meeting with facilitator Dena Rosenberger from 10/29/2008. Includes a presentation from Antarctic researcher, Christine Foreman of the Montana State University about Life in the Extremes, her research, and experiences working with educators.

Introductory CARE meeting, with CARE educator facilitators Dena Rosenberger and Betty Carvellas.

CARE meeting with Uma Bhatt of the University of Alaska Fairbanks. Dr. Bhatt discusses her climate modeling work, how she got into science, and the group discusses classroom implementation.