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Oden Antarctic Expedition 08

Meet the Team

Teacher - Jeff Peneston

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Liverpool High School
Liverpool , New York
United States

Jeff Peneston can walk or snowshoe out his back door into the forest and lakes of Camp Talooli, a children’s camp that he has helped his wife direct for 24 years. Each school day he leaves his forested home to teach Earth Science at Liverpool High School, just North of Syracuse, New York. Mr. Peneston has been teaching for 22 years and his passion has been to find ways to bring his students out into the natural world where they can learn to solve authentic problems. In 2000 he helped create the Expedition Earth Science program and each year he leads groups of students to locations around Upstate New York where they can act as field scientists for a day or a weekend. Mr. Peneston believes what one of his students once told him, “Real science begins where the classroom ends!” Mr. Peneston will be joining a team of international scientists on the Oden icebreaker.

Researcher - Tish Yager

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University of Georgia
Athens , Georgia
United States

Dr. Patricia (Tish) Yager is an associate professor in marine sciences at the University of Georgia. Her expertise includes biological and chemical oceanography, marine microbial ecology and biogeochemistry. Her research focuses on the feedbacks between climate change and marine ecosystems. Her field research combines microbial ecology and community structure with inorganic carbon chemistry. She has spent several seasons working in Antarctica, and also studies microbial communities in the Amazon River. For the project in Barrow, Alaska, Tish will be the lead-PI responsible for project oversight, coordination, and synthesis. To learn more about Dr. Yager, please visit her faculty biography page.

Journals

January 21, 2009 Honey, I’m Home!

  Honey, I’m Home! The trip home started with the check in and pre-flight weigh-in to make sure that my luggage did not exceed 75 pounds.  We all were required to wear our special ECW (extreme cold weather) clothing on the military flight from McMurdo Station to New Zealand and we then crammed...
Honey, I’m Home!

January 20, 2009 The CTD, An Inner Space Probe to the Ocean Depths

The CTD is the workhorse of most of the oceanographic research that happens on the Oden or any other research vessel. CTD stands for Conductivity, Temperature and Depth and the heart of this “inner space probe” is a package of instruments that sends a stream of data back to computers aboard the...
The CTD is the workhorse of most of the oceanographic research that happens on the Oden or any other research vessel. CTD stands for Conductivity, Temperature and Depth and the heart of this "inner space probe” is a package of instruments that sends a stream of data back to computers aboard the...

January 13, 2009 1/13/09 Two Days in McMurdo Station, Ross Island

Exploring McMurdo For me, the reoccurring theme of this 2 month adventure has been, “Just when you thought it could not get better….”.  As we walked off the Oden on Jan 12 we were told that our flight home would be delayed for one more day and we would not leave until the 14th.  This meant that we...
Exploring McMurdo

January 12, 2009 Are We There Yet??

Are We There Yet? As much as I have enjoyed every minute of this expedition and I am already starting to miss some of the great people I have become friends with on the Oden, the last mile to McMurdo has taken us over 24 hours. The Oden has been cutting a channel through 3-meter thick sea ice and...
Are We There Yet?As much as I have enjoyed every minute of this expedition and I am already starting to miss some of the great people I have become friends with on the Oden, the last mile to McMurdo has taken us over 24 hours. The Oden has been cutting a channel through 3-meter thick sea ice and...

January 10, 2009 [Video] Antarctic Minke Whales

An Encounter with Antarctic Minke Whales!! As the Oden cut several miles through the unbroken sea ice of McMurdo Sound we soon realized that the 100 foot wide path of the icebreaker had become a path of opportunity for Antarctic Minke whales too. These 35 foot long, 10 ton whales can gulp huge...
An Encounter with Antarctic Minke Whales!!

Project Information

International Expedition to Antarctica aboard the Icebreaker Oden ‘08
Southern Oceans, Antarctica
25 November 2008
12 January 2009

Where are They?

Mr. Peneston boarded the Swedish Icebreaker Oden in Montevideo, Uruguay. From there, the team traveled south down the eastern shoreline of South America. After rounding the tip of South America, the Oden crossed the Southern Ocean to McMurdo Station, Antarctica, the largest research station in Antarctica.

For additional maps and information about the 2008 Oden Antarctic Expedition, download slides here.

What are they Doing?

The scientific objectives of the cruise aboard the Swedish icebreaker Oden included collecting a range of data in rarely traveled areas of the Antarctic seas and coastline, including the Amundsen and eastern Ross Seas. An international research team studied the oceanography and biogeochemistry of the region while in transit to Antarctica, with a particular emphasis on the processes that control the production and destruction of greenhouse gases and on the role of sea ice microorganisms in this process. 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.

Resources

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Identifying Sea Ice

Overview

Students will undertake three different activities to help them identify a...

Lesson
Jeff Peneston on the Icebreaker Oden 7 January 2009

Live from IPY! event with PolarTREC teacher Jeff Peneston and various science teams working on...

Event
Jeff Peneston on the Icebreaker Oden 15 December 2008

This Live from IPY! event was with PolarTREC Teacher Jeff Peneston and the team onboard the...

Event
Oden Antarctic Expedition 2008 Information Slides

This short slide presentation includes maps and diagrams providing introductory material about...

Presentation

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