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Recent Media Coverage

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Newsroom Archives
Title Date Organization or Publication Related Members Expeditions
Out of the Refrigerator and Into the Freezer Rawlins Daily Times Lesley Urasky Glacial History in Antarctica
Centennial Middle School teacher Bill Schmoker heads to Arctic Ocean Boulder Daily Camera Bill Schmoker International Continental Shelf Survey
Science teacher come polar researcher shares science with elementary students Rawlins Daily Times Glacial History in Antarctica
Liverpool High School teacher Jeff Peneston honored by President Obama at White House Syracuse.com: The Post Standard Jeff Peneston, Tish Yager Oden Antarctic Expedition 08
Talbert Students Taking Virtual Arctic Trip Fountain Valley Patch Carbon Balance in Warming and Drying Tundra
Busy Bacteria Leave Big Mark Science News for Students Lucy Coleman Microbialites In Lake Joyce Antarctica
Cleveland Heights High School science teacher set for polar research expedition in Alaska Sun News Lars Angenent, Ted Raab, David Lipson Microbial Activity in Thawing Arctic Permafrost
Teacher's Scientific Exploits Benefit Students The Voice for Education, a publication of the Pennsylvania State Education Association Nell Herrmann, Charles Amsler Seafloor Organisms and Changing Ocean Conditions in Antarctic
Soluble, Light-absorbing Species in Snow at Barrow, Alaska Journal of Geophysical Research Betsy Wilkening, Harry Beine Ocean, Atmosphere, Sea Ice, and Snowpack Interactions
Taking the Classroom to the Field Field Notes: The Polar Field Services Newsletter Greenland Education Tour 2011
Tunnel Vision: Studying the Engabreen Glacier Field Notes: Polar Field Services Newsletter Michael Lampert, Neal Iverson Glacial Movement and Seismicity
Twice the TREC: Learning by Doing Field Notes: The Polar Field Services Newsletter Susy Ellison, Jeff Rasic, William Hedman, Kevin Anchukaitis Forest Response to Arctic Environmental Change
Field Notes: 2011-2012 PolarTREC Teachers Explore the Poles Field Notes: Polar Field Services Newsletter
Graham Science Teacher Will Study Sea Life in Arctic Springfield News-Sun Chantelle Rose Winter Sampling
Real Cool Class Delaware Online-The News Journal Adaptations of Marine Worms in Antarctica
Real Science in Action UD Quickly Winter Sampling
Austin Teacher's Schedule in Antarctica Austin American Statesman Michelle Brown, Mahlon Kennicutt II, Andrew Klein, Terry Palmer, Stephen Sweet Human Impacts in Antarctica 2011
Teacher's passion for science, students takes her to Antarctica Austin American Statesman Michelle Brown, Mahlon Kennicutt II, Andrew Klein, Terry Palmer, Stephen Sweet, Robert Melville, Alan Weatherwax Human Impacts in Antarctica 2011
Permafrost and Methane-Munching Soil Bacteria
Warming Arctic Wakes Up Methane and Microbes Medhill Reports - Northwestern
PolarTREC Teacher Speaks on Antarctica at AMSE American Museum of Science and Energy Alex Eilers, Jennifer Burns Weddell Seals in the Ross Sea
Seal Deal Memphis Flyer Alex Eilers, Jennifer Burns Weddell Seals in the Ross Sea
Graham Teacher on Expedition in Arctic - Part One The Urbana Daily Citizen Chantelle Rose Winter Sampling
Graham Teacher on Expedition in Arctic - Part Two The Urbana Daily Citizen Chantelle Rose Winter Sampling
Eilers to Talk About Upcoming Antarctica Adventure Chillicothe Times Bulletin Alex Eilers, Jennifer Burns Weddell Seals in the Ross Sea