High Arctic Change 08 Resources

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.

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.

Overview

In this activity students learn about varves, annual sediment layers found in lakes. Students will analyze authentic varve data from New England in order to correlate data from three different geographic locations .

Objective

Students will analyze authentic varve sediment data and create a graph of varve thickness. Students will use their results to make inferences about

Overview

This lesson allows students to use online mapping tools to investigate global snow cover changes. Students develop a problem statement about global snow cover and then use mapping tools to investigate their problem or question.

Objective

Students will become familiar with the data and tools used to analyze snow cover changes in order to answer questions pertaining

This Live from IPY! event was held with Missy Holzer, REU Students, and researchers Mike Retelle and Al Werner from Svalbard, Norway. Missy and the team discussed the glacier-river-lake system in Svalbard and life in the field.

This Live from IPY Event was conducted with the Earth Science Teachers Institute at Liberty Science Center. Missy Holzer and the REU Team presented about their geologic research in Svalbard, Norway.

This article highlights the REU (Research Experience for Undergraduates) Students upcoming fieldwork at Kapp Linne. The students, researchers, and PolarTREC teacher, Missy Holzer, spent a few days at the University Centre at Svalbard before spending 4 weeks at their field site.