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Several attempts were made to record the intense, magnificant sounds of this Little auk colony. After some editing to eliminate the bops of machine placement, the inopportune comments unknowlingly made by team members and the scratching of metal upon rock, I am now sending some of the sounds for you

So these new lessons require materials to do them. My science budget hasn't changed. So how to finance? Write grants. There are often small grants available designed for teachers to get money to implement unique integrated curriculum. The problem is sniffing out those grants, and finding the time to

August 31, 2007 Punta Arenas, Chile Latitude: 53° 10.217 S Longitude: 70° 54.392 W Temperature 8.8° C (47.8° F) Windchill: -1.1 ° C Relative Humidity: 67.7% Barometer: 998.1 mBar Its a warm (relatively) and sunny day in Punta Arenas. I arrived in Punta Arenas two days ago, and I've spent my time

The Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) has a large dive tank inside one of their buildings. Team SCINI went there on August 23rd to practice diving with the equipment they will use in Antarctica. And the non-divers (like me) learned how to help the divers get on their equipment and

It takes a team to build a submersible. It takes a lot of people to build a submersible. Here are some of the people that have been busy working on SCINI. If you read the short descriptions of each person carefully, it will help you on the quizzes that come in future journal entries! The chief

"The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” This quote inspires me to see beyond hardships and adversity and allows me to look ahead to the promise of the future. It helped me train for a marathon and got me through a long hike in the Utah desert this summer. It seems especially

Do you know how tall this charming and intelligent 2nd grader is? Then you also know that SCINI is 51 inches tall. But Savanna will keep growing and SCINI can't grow unless Bob and the team add more sections. Do you know how to convert inches to centimeters? Scientists all over the world use the

The SCINI team met at Moss Landing Marine Laboratories in California on August 23rd and 24th. There are eight people on the team and, in future posts, I will be giving you quizzes to learn more about each team member and what they will be doing on the expedition. First, though, meet Stacy! Stacy is

No, I am not yet in Antarctica. The landscape you see is not ice, but rather calcium carbonate precipitated out of solution from Mammoth Hot Springs in Yellowstone! One of four extreme environments I have always wanted to visit. Antarctica is another, followed by the ocean floor( Mid Ocean Range

Arctic Sea Ice Science Expedition The National Science Foundation has declared 2007 the International Polar Year. As part of this research effort Dr. Cathleen Gieger (University of Delaware) and her colleagues, Jacqueline Richter-Menge (Cold Regions Research and Engineering facility in