The attached PDF contains 5 different lessons and lab activities for high school earth science, environmental science and biology classes. The focus is on permafrost and related topics including the earth’s carbon cycle, the greenhouse effect, climate change, and aqueous geochemistry. The diagrams and photographs included in this manual, along with additional visual materials, are included in the attached Thawing

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Article on B. Taterka in the Daily Record, a local newspaper in Morris County, NJ.

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Article in the New Jersey Star-Ledger newspaper and on www.nj.com about Bruce Taterka's PolarTREC expedition.

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This one hour PolarConnect event is Nell Kemp and Bruce Taterka at Toolik field station studying wolf spiders and tundra/microbial interactions, respectively.

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ScienceDaily article on Rose Cory's latest research on CO2 and melting permafrost.

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PolarTREC teacher Bruce Taterka's expedition to Toolik Field Station is featured in a local paper.

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