Barney Peterson
About
Expeditions:
Alaska Climate Variation 09
Occupation:
Teacher
Organization:
James Monroe Elementary School
Barney Peterson has been a teacher for 19 years and is currently a 4th grade teacher at James Monroe Elementary in Everett Washington. She currently teaches students in an applied learning program in which students use skills and knowledge from core areas to carry out projects in environmental science. In addition to studying native plants, each year, her students raise Coho salmon and maintain a webcam on their tank . Ms. Peterson is a National Board Certified Teacher, has been a Teacher at Sea and a Teacher in the Air with NOAA, and, in 2006, received a Presidential Award for Excellence in Math and Science Teaching. Her interest in paleoclimatology and the International Polar Year is what led her to participate in PolarTREC.
Barney Peterson's Content
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September 16, 2009 A Full Head |
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August 17, 2009 Respectful, Responsible, Resourceful |
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August 17, 2009 Wow! Look at the Glaciers |
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August 17, 2009 Long Coring |
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August 2, 2009 The Drilling Process |
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August 3, 2009 Project Background |
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August 2, 2009 Sunday The Drilling Process |
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July 31, 2009 The Cascade Story |
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July 28, 2009 First journal entry from Cascade Lake |
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July 21, 2009 Girdwood Junction, Seward Highway, AK |
Read Full Journal | 28 July 2009 |
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When I grow up |
CReSIS Aerial Survey of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet | November 23, 2009 - 5:28pm |
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Thanksgiving Dinner |
Ice Core Drilling in West Antarctica | November 21, 2009 - 7:25pm |
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Temperatures and water |
Dissolved Organic Matter in Antarctica | November 17, 2009 - 5:29pm |
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Travel to McMurdo |
Ice Core Drilling in West Antarctica | November 17, 2009 - 5:17pm |
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It's almost over! |
Greenland Education Tour 09 | July 19, 2009 - 11:04pm |
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Say hello to the St Paul students for me |
Seabird Ecology in the Bering Sea | July 19, 2009 - 11:00pm |
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Hey Thomas getting ready isn't for sissies! |
Seabird Ecology in the Bering Sea | July 14, 2009 - 3:05pm |
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Great Experience |
CReSIS Greenland Ice Sheet Studies | June 7, 2009 - 2:05pm |
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Wildlife |
Geologic Climate Research in Siberia | April 6, 2009 - 2:31pm |
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School |
Early Spring Plankton and Benthos | March 29, 2009 - 2:32pm |
Good to learn cliimate change is on your mind. Thanks for the update about the District acknowledgement. We just got back to Anchorage after six days of liquid sunshine at a lake above Valdez. Lots to share with students. Long coring is a whole different ball game. I think I have become a...{read more}
Good morning Tim, sorry for the answer delay, but connecitons were sometimes less than good in the narrow space above us; even Iridium was challenged.
Are you studying cores in the field or will they be taken back to a lab somewhere? The cores are split and inspected in the field for...{read more}
Good morning Curtiss, I am not sure whether or not my reply got to you as it is not appearing on this page so I will repeat.
Sampling starts at the surface and goes down: short cores are up to 55 cm or so and long cores (the goal) are hopefully more than a meter. We use polycarbonate...{read more}
Hmmmm, great topic for a journal entry. I'll get it posted tonight if I can...with photos.
Thanks for asking.
Barney
{read more}Hi Sarah, good to hear from you. No really bad problems with bugs yet...but I have only been in the great state for a few days and head into the backcountry with Heidi tomorrow morning. I practiced putting on the bug suit quickly and I dream of the roar (not buzz) of hoards of incoming...{read more}
Hi Spencer, I am just getting my gear put into the bags to head into the backcountry. Watch for "Spirit" in pictures on the trip website! The first thing is to fly to Dillingham, Alaska, where we will get into a little float plane and fly to one of the remote lakes. See if you can...{read more}
Thanks for the info Betsy. We are following the fires on the news and this summer is sounding like some of those Curt and I spent on the rivers in central Idaho. (Mike will know which ones I mean!) I am hopeful that the fires will be far from where we go. Our first destination is out of...{read more}
Oh Mike, you know us river rats have figured those fires out! I just hope the issue does not arise on this expedition! How are you doing with pickled herring and lutefisk? I hope your trip is all you dreamed of. I am heading out tomorrow and yes, I will happily take your greetings to Heidi...{read more}
Hi Gary, good to hear from you. I just got back to hot water and showers after 3 days of helping with dip netting for Sockeye salmon on the Kenai River in Alaska. Our two older sons try to give us the full Alaska experience! I am rested (hah!) and ready to meet Heidi in Anchorage tomorrow...{read more}
Hey Lollie, good to hear from you. Have I replied to your post yet? My
{read more}head is spinning and my whole being is on overload, but I am still
enjoying it. Have you got your land legs back yet after your adventure
at sea?
Barney