Earth Science Collection

This one hour webinar is conducted by PolarTREC alumni Missy Holzer. She highlighted her work with the High Arctic Change expedition 2008 and bringing inquiry-based science into her classroom. This webinar is part of the C-ISE online professional development course.

This one hour presentation by Dr. Al Werner is a professional development opportunity for educators to learn more about earth and geoscience research in Svalbard, Norway. Some noticeable technical issues are resolved a few minutes into the presentation.

Here is a high resolution .pdf of the mooring C ice-out temperature probe data from the Lake Linne, Svalbard (Norway) water column.

PolarTREC teacher Cristina Solis and her team presented their work on microbial activity in the tundra to junior docents at Cabrillio Marine Aquarium. This is a one hour presentation with Cristina and her research team.

This article and associated video describe the findings of researchers who undertook core drilling at Lake El’gygytgyn, a lake that sits today inside a basin formed by a meteorite that struck the earth 3.6 million years ago. An associated video allows us to hear the enthusiasm and details as researcher Julie Brigham-Grette describes the findings of this remarkable discovery.

A PDF copy of Steve Roof's lecture on the Quaternary glaciation of Svalbard.

Article from the Daily Breeze (Los Angeles) describes PolarTREC teacher Cristina Solis's upcoming expedition to Barrow, Alaska.

The Alfred Wegener Institute developed a corer for use in ice covered areas such as the Antarctic Ice Shelf. The sampler can be lowered and heaved through several 100 m deep ice boreholes. This resource explains the technology of this polar science tool.

An article on technology used for ground-based radar to measure basal conditions and internal layers in an area between two ice core drilling site locations.

A general information page about Svalbard, facts, history, travel, and events. The site is in English and Norwegian.

Built as an Auroral Station, this observation site has regularly updated weather observations, sun/moon charts, and updated photos.

College level information on northern hydrology. At the University of the Arctic, the primary aim of this course is to provide students with a more in-depth understanding of the lands and environments that defines the Circumpolar North.

This is a one hour webinar specifically for the participants of the Polaris Project 2012, conducted by Max Holmes and John Schade. In this session, the team wraps up their preparations and students discuss their project proposals.

The CIMSS/UW-Madison Global and Regional Climate Change course for G6-12 science teachers has been translated to Spanish and is now available online. The translation was done by Juan Botella, a native Spanish speaker who teaches high school science in Madison, WI and a former PolarTREC teacher. Read more about Juan here: http://www.polartrec.com/member/juan-botella

In mid-April 2012, five teachers from Denmark, Greenland, and the United States, were given the experience of a lifetime. The teachers lived, worked, and flew alongside airborne polar scientists in Greenland, and saw firsthand how remote data are collected on NASA’s Operation IceBridge. In the process, the experience provided the educators with better tools to teach students about science. Read

Developed by teams of scientists and educators, the Earth Exploration Toolbook (EET) is a collection of online Earth system science activities. Each activity, or chapter, introduces one or more scientific data sets and analysis tools that enables users to explore some aspect of the Earth system.

This short video provides an overview of the types of rocks found in Antarctica and what we can learn about Antarctica from polar geology. This video is designed to accompany the September 2008 issue of the free online magazine, Beyond Penguins and Polar Bears. The magazine is a professional development magazine for elementary teachers.

Rocks and minerals make up the earth around us. But what exactly are rocks and minerals? What is the difference between them? How do they form? Where are they found? This article provides content knowledge about minerals, the three types of rocks, the rock cycle, and polar geology as well as online resources for further learning and connections to the

The Polar Rock Repository, located at the Byrd Polar Research Center, is a national facility that provides rock samples for research, education, and museum use under a no-cost loan program.

Svalbard is an archipelago in the Arctic Ocean, located about midway between Norway and the North Pole. This site explains the physical geography and geology of Svalbard in depth.

This geologic time calculator allows the user to manipulate the relativism of time to other markers. It builds from the classic analogy for illustrating the relative durations of parts of the geologic time scale is the yardstick.

A step by step guide to deep time for students and teachers. This educational module is sponsored by the National Science Foundation.

Arctic Research Mapping Application. ARMAP is a suite of online, interactive maps and services that support Arctic science. Learn more about research projects in your region of interest or scientific discipline. Explore available data or possible collaborations. Use the online mapping tools to meet your own project's specific goals.

Summit Station, Greenland Website. The station is located atop 3200 m of ice and is nearly 400 km from the nearest point of land. Summit supports a diversity of scientific research, including year-round measurements of air-snow interactions that provide crucial knowledge for interpreting data from deep ice cores drilled both at Summit and elsewhere.

North Greenland Eemian Ice Drilling website. The North Greenland Eemian Ice Drilling - NEEM - is an international ice core research project aimed at retrieving an ice core from North-West Greenland (camp position 77.45°N 51.06°W) reaching back through the previous interglacial, the Eemian.