Antarctic educator, Mark Walsh, created this video for the PolarTREC 2013 spring online professional development course. This video uses the concept of Density to explore how mountains are built as well as how to throw a good Cinco de Mayo party at McMurdo Station Antarctica. He uses the Dr. Samantha Hansen's Transantarctic Mountains work as an example of mountain building.
Students will use the TAMMNET project and accompanying PolarTREC resources to learn about seismology in the Antarctic, culminating in the creation of an annotated map using google maps.
Objective:
Students will understand the different ways mountain ranges are formed, and appreciate the questions unanswered about the Transantarctic Mountains. Students will also appreciate the ingenuity required for doing research in
This student lesson focuses on plate tectonics and large-scale system interactions, utilizing PolarTREC teacher Brian DuBay's Transantarctic Mountains expedition videos.
Objectives: The student will investigate, make observations, and analyze geologic processes of plate tectonics.
Key concepts include:
a) how geologic processes are evidenced in Antarctic mountains;
b) tectonic processes (compressional, tensional, and transversal forces).
Adapted by Michelle Brand Buhanan for
Listen below: I hope that you enjoyed the audio journal above. Following the short little ski video there are four photographs from Camp 11,000. http://youtu.be/JeepCiXZeV0
This 2 ½ minute video gives a basic overview of the research I'll be working on at Toolik. http://youtu.be/gD4TzqjPcYw Since getting back from Fairbanks I’ve been working to learn the science behind the work I’ll be doing with my researchers, Rose Cory and George Kling. In simple terms, Rose and
This 1.5 hour webinar is a culminating event for the 2012-13/cohort 6 PolarTREC teachers and researchers. Participants commented on the impact of their expedition on their teaching and research practices.
..all that in a single day. So here I am back in Fairbanks for orientation for my next PolarTREC expedition. Today we visited the Permafrost Tunnel and the Pipeline. Constructed in the 1960s, the Tunnel offers a peek into the last 40,000 years! When it was excavated, as luck would have it, they dug
I pretty much just arrived at our second camp about 9 km from base camp up the Kahiltna. The weather has been stunning although I must say I am intrigued by the extremes. It gets warm during the day, to the point as I write this I am on my sleeping pad barefoot from the sweaty ski up. Night time
