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30 May 2016 Old World Here I Come!

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Getting Ready to Go! I'm getting excited with just a few days left before I leave! I am crazy busy finishing the school year, finishing up the new garden at school, and packing. We've all packed up for a trip, right?! But even as summer has arrived in northeast Ohio, I'm packing my hat and gloves

30 May 2016 Getting to Know the Healy

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Preparations Continue The preparations for July's departure continue, and I am amazed at the level of planning that goes into this type of science mission. Plans must be made and coordinated to get all of the special equipment onto the Healy as well as all of the team members to Seward in time for

Alumni Highlight - Alicia Gillean

Alicia Gillean discusses her 2013 Arctic Ground Squirrel Studies expedition at Toolik Field Station, Alaska, and how it impacted her personally and professionally.

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Alumna and Researcher Highlight - Susy Ellison and Jeff Rasic

PolarTREC alumna Susy Ellison talks about her two expeditions and how they affected her personally and professionally. Researcher Jeff Rasic joins in to talk about what it was like to have a teacher in the field for the Early Human Settlement in Arctic Alaska 2011 expedition.

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Researcher Highlight - Elizabeth Webb

Researcher Elizabeth Webb discusses her experiences working in the field with a PolarTREC teacher. She worked with John Wood in 2011 and 2012, and Tom Lane in 2013, on the Carbon Balance in Warming and Drying Tundra expedition near Healy, Alaska. (She primarily discusses her time with John Wood since this interview was taken in 2013, before Tom Lane's expedition.)

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22 May 2016 Flag Contest Winners

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The Winning Flags Flags were submitted to my contest at the kindergarten through fourth grade level and at the middle school level. The flags were judged by our school art teacher as well as some of the middle school teaching team. Winning flags were selected based on whether they represented

21 May 2016 From the Land of the Midnight Sun to the Land of Black Diamonds

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Back in the Coal Region after a whirlwind trip home, a beautiful graduation ceremony, and a full day back at school behind me, I sit with a grateful heart reflecting on the past month of experiences that have changed the way I think about the world. The trip home was no exception to the

21 May 2016 YSP Polar Post Cards

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YSP Polar Post Cards ##YSP Program Description: The USC Young Scientists Program works in partnership with 5 USC community schools to engage more than 1400 elementary school students, 45 LAUSD teachers, and 5 principals through a broad repertoire of science curriculum. YSP TA's are placed at each

20 May 2016 Why Should We Care About The Arctic?

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Polar Bears and the Chesapeake Bay The best part of being a teacher is getting to share exciting new things with students, and PolarTREC has given me a new avenue through which to share my love of science. I have been visiting classrooms with my "Polar Science Box", and I have found that students

20 May 2016 Snow Fences

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Catching Snow Early April is the beginning of the research season for Dr. Mauritz and her team. She and her team return to Alaska to shovel the snow off her research plot, snow that has accumulated due to a fence constructed to "catch" the snow from the blowing wind to pile up on the leeward side