Earth Science Collection

Overview

This lesson/project/lab has students predict via multiple drawings and time lapse photography predictive Flubber flow before the placement of barriers and other obstacles in front of the Flubber. Contour lines in two directions are drawn on both the paper prediction and the Flubber for comparison purposes. Following predictive drawing completion glacier flow (Flubber flow), with obstacles in place

Overview

Ground penetrating radar is an important tool for studying glacier dynamics. Glacier scientists use GPR images to analyze attributes of glaciers. The following research activity will familiarize students with the basics of the different types of glaciers and their dynamics along with ground penetrating radar and its use in glacier studies.

Goals/Objectives

Students will know the different

The attached PDF contains 5 different lessons and lab activities for high school earth science, environmental science and biology classes. The focus is on permafrost and related topics including the earth’s carbon cycle, the greenhouse effect, climate change, and aqueous geochemistry. The diagrams and photographs included in this manual, along with additional visual materials, are included in the attached Thawing

This one hour live event was hosted by PolarTREC teacher Peggy McNeal at Svalbard, Norway with the 2014 High Arctic Change Expedition.

Overview

Scientists use bathymetry to understand the ocean floor. This lesson is a basic introduction to bathymetry using salad trays to help students understand how bathymetric maps work.

Objectives

1. Students will be able to identify the advantages to using a bathymetric map. 2. Students will be able to transform a bathymetric map into a three-dimensional model. 3. Using just

Televicentro de Puerto Rico (WAPA-TV channel 4) live television interview with Alba Nydia Díaz and Armando Caussade. This resource is in Spanish.

Univisión Puerto Rico (WLII-TV channel 11) live television interview with Eliezer Ramos and Armando Caussade. This resource is in Spanish.

Spanish Article Title: Profesor puertorriqueño participará en una misión científica en la Antártida An EFE wire service news story published in Primera Hora, about Armando Caussade heading to the South Pole as part of the IceCube project. This resource is in Spanish. This story was also published in: Índice PR, El Expresso de Puerto Rico, MSN Latino, Fox News Latino

Spanish Article Title: Profesor puertorriqueño realizará investigaciones en el Polo Sur

A news story from Mi Puerto Rico Verde (online environmental news) about Armando Caussade heading to the South Pole as part of the IceCube project. This resource is in Spanish.

Spanish Article Title: Sondeando los confines del universo detectando neutrinos

A Diario de Puerto Rico news story about Armando Caussade heading to the South Pole as part of the IceCube project. Also published in Telemundo Puerto Rico (WKAQ-TV channel 2). This resource is in Spanish.

Spanish Article Title: Profesor puertorriqueño investigará en la Antártida

A NotiCel news story about Armando Caussade heading to the South Pole as part of the IceCube project. This resource is in Spanish.

Overview

Exploration of the Antarctic continent did not occur until the late 1800’s, and the South Pole was first reached on December 14, 1911. Courage, planning, and technology have been the main components of Antarctic exploration from the earliest days. This classroom activity is designed to highlight the historical elements of the past 100 years of exploration in Antarctica and

102 men and women received the United States government's highest honor for scientists and engineers in the early stages of their independent research careers--the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). The National Science Foundation (NSF) nominated 20 of the awardees, including PolarTREC researcher Samantha Hansen.

This graphic is a summit ice core timeline depicting the phenomena that as we drill deeper ice cores, the ice gets older. The graphic compares this timeframe with major milestones in history. It is a concept developed by Zoe Courville and Dr. Mary Albert at Dartmouth University, in partnership with CRREL (Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory).

Researchers aboard NASA's P-3 research aircraft left Virginia, March 10 for Greenland to begin a new season of collecting data on Arctic land and sea ice. The mission, known as Operation IceBridge, is to gather data on changes to polar ice. PolarTREC teacher Russell Hood will join the expedition in Greenland this spring.

Article on B. Taterka in the Daily Record, a local newspaper in Morris County, NJ.

President Obama recently named 102 researchers as recipients of the Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers, the highest honor bestowed by the United States Government on science and engineering professionals in the early stages of their independent research careers. Researcher Samantha Hansen, who worked for two field seasons in Antarctic with PolarTREC teacher Brian DuBay will be one

This video clip from from Alabama TV 13 News profiles PolarTREC researcher Dr. Samantha Hansen's work studying the history of landforms in Antarctica. Dr. Hansen will be one of a hundred scientists to be awarded the Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers.

Skidompha Public Library's Chats with Champions speaker program hosted well-known Nobleboro Central School teacher Ken Williams and his former student Seth Campbell at the library's Porter Meeting Hall at 2 PM on Saturday, January 11, 2014. The two explained the unofficial title of their presentation: "Student finally hands in 1989 homework assignment to Nobleboro teacher at 14,000 feet in Denali

This PowerPoint presentation could be used as part of an introductory or supplementary unit on Antarctica. The presentation includes stunning visuals and general facts about Antarctica.

Jeanine Gelhaus <gelhaje [at] medford.k12.wi.us> Capstone Project Fall 2013. Integrated Life and Earth Sciences in the Polar Regions.

This presentation is designed to supplement an eighth grade science unit on polar ice but could easily be used for other audiences. The presentation covers the differences between ice in the Arctic and Antarctica, how ice affects salinity, temperature and currents, an exploration of various ice types and a summary of current research efforts to study polar ice. Jeanine Gelhaus

Overview

Through investigation, you will determine which solution has the highest density.

Objective

To determine, through experimentation, which of a variety of solutions has the highest density.

Preparation

Background: The waters of the ocean are constantly moving in many different ways. The surface of the ocean rises and falls in rhythm. These movements, in the form of

Follow the link in this article to hear an audio recording about PolarTREC teacher Glenn Clark's preparation for a trek to the Totten Glacier System in Antarctica this winter.

Overview

This lesson includes a variety of research activities and a lab that all help demonstrate the science behind convection currents.

Objectives

Through the following activities and lab students will discover: * that temperature and salinity affect the density of fluids (liquids and gases) * how fluids with different densities interact with each other

Lesson Preparation

Background

Overview

Antarctica is the coldest, driest place on Earth with a fairly limited number of native species which have adapted to these extreme conditions over millions of years. As a result, it's not very likely that a non-native species would survive there . . . right? Actually ever since exploration and exploitation of the Antarctic region began in the 1800's