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Susy Ellison

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Expeditions:
Forest Response to Arctic Environmental Change
Early Human Settlement in Arctic Alaska 2011
Occupation: Teacher
Organization: Yampah Mountain High School

Susy Ellison has taught science at the small, public alternative Yampah Mountain High School in Glenwood Springs, Colorado, for many years. Ms. Ellison's days are filled with designing and teaching physical, earth, and life science classes that engage the minds and hearts of her students. In 2010, the National Environmental Education Foundation honored Ms. Ellison as the recipient of their Richard C. Bartlett Environmental Education Award. Ms. Ellison's students have been and continue to be challenged to include environmental literacy into their lives. Her students have worked on many projects to meet this demand, including helping to design and build an energy-efficient strawbale building, installing solar panels on the school's roof, and building a greenhouse. Her students have also studied snow science in the Colorado backcountry and backpacked in the canyons of Utah studying desert ecology. In her free time, Ms. Ellison can be found outside, exploring the nooks and crannies of mountain, desert, and river environments. She resides in Carbondale, Colorado in a solar-powered home that she built with her husband.

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I wish I were along, as well!

I wish I were along, as well! But I'll just follow along vicariously.

{read more} 		February 9, 2012 - 12:45pm
I earned my junior

I earned my junior archaeologist merit badge, for sure! Bring lots of layers--esp a softshell (windproof fleece) sort of upper layer for those drizzly and windy days when full raingear is too much but you want some sort of weather protection. we should chat before you go and i can give you...{read more}

February 9, 2012 - 12:48pm
It has not been dated yet.

It has not been dated yet. All bone bits are sent to a lab in Indiana for processing. Once it has been dated i will post a jounral entry.

{read more} 		January 30, 2012 - 1:39pm
I would have to say that I am

I would have to say that I am certainly under-educated on this topic. If I find any good sources I'll post them in a reply.

{read more} 		January 30, 2012 - 1:40pm
Sorry-I don't know the answer

Sorry-I don't know the answer to this. While I'm sure the due date for your project is long past, you might look up some information on the Bering Land Bridge to get an idea of when humans might have come across from Russia.

{read more} 		January 30, 2012 - 1:42pm
seal tags

i checked my journals and i guess all those yellow tags were from us--any seal with a yellow tag was from 2003. we tagged babies, and any untagged moms and any of the males who were just hanging around on the ice watching the moms.

{read more} 		January 24, 2012 - 11:27am
yellow tags

i'll have to go through my old journals and look up some numbers of seals that were babies in 2003.

{read more} 		January 19, 2012 - 12:39pm
getting ready

those are some great videos of your pre-trip prep in your journals. i remember that i spent a lot of time getting physically ready by running/hiking/backpacking, etc. then--i got west nile virus and spent the 2 weeks before my expedition lying around being sick. i was glad that i had at least...{read more}

January 4, 2012 - 9:44am
Drill baby, drill!

Hope they drill you a nice dive hole with that rig!

susy

{read more} 		September 2, 2011 - 9:09am
bone

hi dominick-
actually, it took 12 days to get to that bone--it was at the bottom of the last section that was excavated. this is the first large bone that has been found at that site. since there weren't any artifacts (stone tools or chert flakes) found in the dirt near the bone, it is...{read more}

August 12, 2011 - 8:22am

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