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In the morning students learned about fossils from Greenlandic educator Rikke Jorgensen and then Rikke and Einstein Fellow Shelly Hynes discussed climate change data including using Diatoms…
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The students are spending the morning working on their projects. Several groups have videos to finish up which will be posted to the respective day's blogs as soon as I receive them. Group…
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By Lynn Reed, 2012-2013 Albert Einstein Distinguished Educator Fellow, National Science Foundation Office of Polar Programs
Einstein Fellows Shelly Hynes and Lynn Reed near Russell Glacier…
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Today students visited the Sondestrom Incoherent Scatter Radar facility, aka Kellyville. This facility uses RADAR to profile the upper atmosphere and LIDAR (Laser radar) to profile the…
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The group headed back out to Russell Glacier to meet up with Karen Cameron's team. Karen is a researcher from the University of Washington. They study subglacial microbes. The students…
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The day started with a SKYPE session with Andreas Mikkelsen of Copenhagen University. He explained to the students how to measure river discharge rate (flux) and how that relates to glacier…
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The group began at 8am for our 45 minute journey to Russell Glacier. After lunch we headed to the Greenland Ice Sheet Point 660. Students had several tasks to complete today. They include…
Summary of Today's Activities
The students finished three projects today. In the morning the students learned how to identify rocks from Rikke Jørgensen, a Danish teacher who has been teaching in…
Activities
The students had two main activities with the morning dedicated to learning how to geocache and the afternoon visiting the sled dogs and learning how to edit video.
Geocaching
The…
Alex Schmidt, Washington State
Most of the other students arrived today. The American students did inventory of our equipment this morning. Then greeted the other students all afternoon.
This…
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Today was another absolutely amazing day in Kangerlussuaq! Bright and early this morning we went to breakfast in the "cafeteria" which is really just a little restaurant on base. It was…
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We began our day at 5am with the 109th Air National Guard picking us up and taking us to the "airport". There we waited for our flight to be ready. While we waited, we took our first group…