Did I tell you I share a college-sized dorm room with Michael Studinger? He’s the project scientist for Operation IceBridge. He is responsible for ALL the science and scientific data collected. If the project has a central nervous system, Michael is the brain in that model. He has a Ph.D. in
Last week we sampled for radiocarbon from the winter warming and control sides of the snow fence experiment. What is radiocarbon? Radiocarbon dating or “radiocarbon” as we call it for short, is a technique used to determine the age of carbon. It has been used to date mummies excavated in Egypt, an
Inter-species Exchange Program While working with a group of fabulous NOAA Teacher at Sea Alumni at the National Science Teachers Association Conference in San Antonio last week, a brilliant idea was born: an inter-species exchange program. Since
John Sonntag is the choreographer of NASA’s Operation IceBridge. As a high schooler in Texas he saw the Omnimax movie The Dream is Alive about NASA’s space program, and he knew then that he wanted to be a part of it. John is involved in just about every facet
Mount St. Mary's College in Los Angeles profiles one of its alumni, teacher Cristina Solis who also happens to be a PolarTREC alumnus. Read about her journey to become an educator and her participation in a PolarTREC study of microbial activity in thawing arctic permafrost near Barrow, Alaska.
Students will conduct a demonstration that will help them gain a better understanding of the water cycle and runoff in a watershed. They will be able to replicate arctic and non-arctic watersheds by varying the size of the watershed. They will be able to visualize the difference in runoff by creating hydrographs of these different locations.
If you have been following the previous journals you should have some ideas regarding the insulative qualities of snow and how its depth affects CO2 emissions from the tundra underneath. Here is some raw data dated March 25, 2013 from varies test plots at the Snow Pit Site on CiPEHR. See if you can
This one hour webinar is part of the online polar professional development course on physical science for educators. Dr. Hansen focuses on her research of the tectonic history of the Transantarctic Mountain in Antarctica.
How do you see through the snow and ice? Especially when it can be more than 2 miles thick? The answer: RADAR; an acronym for RAdio Detecting And Ranging. NASA’s Operation IceBridge has four different kinds of radar. First, what is radar? It’s a wave of energy produced by electrons converting
Another method of collecting data on the effects of warming tundra soils is the Snow Pit Method. The overall technique has been around longer than the Fences Method designed by Ted Schuur and Sue Natali. At CiPEHR the idea for using snow pits was conceived by Dr. Ted Schuur. These pits were then
