Science360 News focuses on the latest developments in scientific research. This link provides a short video on the 2012 Joint Science Education Program (JSEP). JSEP brings high-school students from diverse countries to Arctic research sites to experience hands-on science. Provided by the National Science Foundation.
After completing the lengthy first full station, everyone was ready for the next full station, scheduled to begin around noon yesterday. This one began with a productivity cast with the CTD. Primary productivity refers to the primary production of phytoplankton, the algae that photosynthesize and
Students will explain, both orally and in writing, a diagram used to illustrate a food web.
Objectives
Students will learn how language is used to communicate and is required to impart knowledge and sustain a healthy, traditional community in a modern world.
Students will learn strategies for communicating complex ideas to an audience.
Students discover how different organisms that live in the Arctic depend on each other and what might happen to the food web if one or more organisms disappears from it. Students will build an arctic food web.
Objectives
Students will learn that organisms are part of a global food web and linked to each other and their
It's safe to say that the weather conditions weren't ideal for our first full biological station. A cold rain/sleet prevailed for the entire 9 hours that people were on deck. In addition, it was in the dark, and it was the first station, the one where all the kinks get worked out. Fortunately
This First Grade unit on the bowhead whale has been created to support the knowledge of children living within a whaling community. The unit focuses on the basic components of understanding the bowhead in a more scientific manner. Although my students know the bowhead in a uniquely intimate way because of their environmental and subsistence circumstances, our goal
A Stormy Day in Barrow Alaska! The research team and the captain made the right call. As the day went on the ocean and atmosphere conditions in Barrow turned from bad to worse. Wow, what a quick switch in the weather. When I arrived in Anchorage I could have worn shorts and was down to a tee shirt
Arctic – Homebound- Was I just in the Arctic on Saturday and now I am at home on the couch with the family and dog? Traveling by air can make the sense of time and place surreal. I can imagine that before air travel, people had a connection to the land and changes in the landscape as they traveled
When research ships are at sea, it’s never easy to pinpoint exact times such as port arrival and departure, times when the ship will arrive at a station, or how long it will stay at a station. A station is a specific location where the ship stops so the science teams on board can do their sampling
Dr. Jackie Grebmeier, the scientist with whom I'll be working, and I arrived at approximately the same time in Anchorage last night, and as we headed to our hotel Jackie told me stories of her science cruise on the US Coast Guard Cutter Healy. She and her gear had been flown by helicopter off of the
