Oden Antarctic Expedition 07
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Meet the Team
Teacher - Lollie Garay
Lollie Garay teaches Earth and Space Science at Redd School in Houston, Texas, and holds a Master of Science Teaching degree from Rice University. Her mission in teaching is to get students excited about science through active, real-time learning. She develops Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) programs for students, families, and teachers including after-school programs in Robotics, Engineering, Aeronautics, and Amateur Radio. Ms. Garay works with the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Pre-College program, various NASA Science committees, is a Fellow with Baylor College of Medicine and the NASA MESSENGER Mission programs, and was a JASON Project XVII Teacher Argo. Ms. Garay believes polar education and public outreach are integral to creating change and developing environmental stewardship, and will use her expedition on the Oden to bring the science into the classroom.
Researcher - Tish Yager
Dr. Patricia (Tish) Yager is an associate professor in marine sciences at the University of Georgia. Her research interests include biological and and chemical oceanography, with a particular interest in the relationship between the changing climate and the marine ecosystem. She has spent several seasons woking in Antarctica, and also studies microbial communities in the Amazon River. To learn more about Dr. Yager, please visit her faculty biography page (http://www.marsci.uga.edu/directory/pyager.htm).
Researcher - Robert Sherrell
Researcher - Walker Smith
Journals
Off to the Amazon!
Reflections on "The Ice"
The People on the Mighty Oden
Project Information
Where are They?
Ms. Garay boarded the Oden icebreaker in Punta Arenas, Chile, the southernmost city in South America and then traveled across the southern Pacific Ocean to McMurdo Station, Antarctica, the largest research station in Antarctica.
What are they Doing?
Lollie Garay journeyed across the world to participate in a unique co-operative endeavor between the Swedish Polar Research Secretariat and the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF). Along with researchers, teachers and other personnel from Sweden, and the United States, Ms. Garay boarded the Swedish icebreaker Oden in Punta Arenas, Chile and traveled to McMurdo Base in Antarctica, finally returning home via Christchurch, New Zealand.
The scientific objectives of the cruise were to collect a range of data in rarely traveled areas of the Antarctic seas and coastline, including the Bellingshausen, Amundsen, and eastern Ross Seas. An international research team studyed the oceanography and biogeochemistry of the region while in transit to Antarctica, with a particular emphasis on the processes that control the growth and fate of phytoplankton in the ocean. These studies will add to our limited knowledge of these remote corners of the Antarctic Seas and allow future researchers to expand their monitoring efforts in these regions.
Vocabulary
- Primary Producers
- Trace Elements
- Water Column
Organisms that make their own food from sunlight such as plants, phytoplankton and some bacteria.
Chemical elements required for proper growth of many organisms but found in very small quantities.
Hypothetical 'cylinder' of water between the surface of the ocean and the ocean bottom.