Students in cooperative teams will use a spreadsheet and graphing program such as Google Sheets or Microsoft Excel to graph and evaluate a large data set. The data sets provided come from authentic arctic ground squirrel research completed at Toolik Research station in arctic Alaska. The data sets were downloaded from body temperature loggers implanted into individual animals
Svalbard REU: Understanding climate change in Tidewater environments of the High Arctic
The Svalbard Archipelago has an arctic climate and is home to several large bodies of ice – alpine glaciers in the mountains, and tidewater glaciers that descend into the sea. For the past 10,000 years the glaciers of this region have been receding and more recently researchers have noted a regional reduction in sea ice.
It’s hard to believe the expedition is almost here. I’ve been preparing for well over a year! But now it’s time to go: my bags are finally packed and the before-expedition outreach is done. Throughout all of the outreach I’ve been doing, I’ve been collecting a lot of great questions from everyone
Less than 10 days to go until I leave for the Expedition. My heart is aflutter. My brain is full and it’s hard to concentrate. I’m running around like crazy trying to get prepared… but not for Antarctica… for the: Just before I go to Antarctica, we’re having our department’s biggest event of the
Apologies for the long gap between posts, everyone! Between fieldwork and traveling, we had very little technology access for weeks. So here is a long overdue update!! The Velvet Ice team left Antarctica at the end of January. True to form, our departure was an adventure! We all ended up getting
The Microverse There are microbes everywhere, and most of the time, we think nothing of them. They live all around us, on us, and inside us. They also make up the communities at the bottom of Lake Joyce. Megan and Anne are the microbiologists on our team, and their passion for studying these
Students in cooperative teams will use a spreadsheet and graphing program such as Google Sheets or Microsoft Excel to graph and evaluate a large data set. The data sets provided come from authentic arctic ground squirrel research completed at Toolik Research station in arctic Alaska. The data sets were downloaded from body temperature loggers implanted into individual animals
This lesson was designed to teach pre-service teachers an inquiry-based approach for a science classroom. To give context to the activity, I used my experiences as part of “High Arctic Change 2014” for a lab activity. As such, the activity focuses on discovering how glaciers are formed and flow and how icebergs float in water. The materials can
This lesson is based on studies completed by undergraduate geoscience students working around the glaciers of Kongsfjord, Svalbard during the summer of 2014. It is intended as part of a larger unit on matter that covers atomic theory, atomic structure and the periodic table. Students connect authentic research to their classroom understanding of atoms while learning how this
This lesson is based on studies completed by undergraduate geoscience students working around the glaciers of Kongsfjord, Svalbard during the summer of 2014. It is intended as part of a larger Earth science unit that covers erosion, transport and deposition of sediment. Students connect authentic research to classroom investigations while learning how to interpret current data to understand
