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Arctic Connection - Seasonal Migration Edition

Overview


Learn more about seasonal migrations of species around the world. These multidisciplinary hands-on activities focusing on art, observation, movement, and adventure. Resources can be used in formal and informal learning environments. All activities are designed to be possible as at-home/distanced activities.

Objectives


* Learners will understand the diverse forms of seasonal migration of animals.
* Learners will make connections

Resource Details
Informal Education Product
Arctic Antarctic
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All Aged
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Arctic Connection - June Solstice Edition

Overview


Learn more about the longest day of the year in the northern hemisphere through these multidisciplinary hands-on activities focusing on art, observation, outdoor engineering, movement, and adventure. Resources can be used in formal and informal learning environments.

Objectives


* Learners will understand the astronomical phenomenon of solstice.
* Learners identify the differences in how solstice impacts their local, sub-arctic

Resource Details
Informal Education Product
Arctic
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All Aged
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Weddel Seal Movements

Provided by Dr. Jennifer Burns and and graduate student Kim Goetz. This timelapse video depicts the movement of Weddell Seals of a 12 month period.

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Video
Antarctic
Less than 1 period
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Interview on Spotlight 92- WUMR

Interview with PolarTREC teacher Alex Eilers and Dr. Jennifer Burns' expedition studying Weddell seals in the Ross Sea.

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Antarctic
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Expedition Interview on ABC Memphis

Television interview with PolarTREC teacher Alex Eilers' and her upcoming expedition to study Weddell seals in the Ross Sea.

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Antarctic
Less than 1 period
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Expedition Interview on CBS Memphis

Television interview with PolarTREC teacher Alex Eiler’s and her upcoming expedition to study Weddell seals in the Ross Sea.

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Antarctic
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Related Members

  • Alex Eilers (4)
  • Katie Gavenus (2)

Expeditions

  • Predatory Spiders in the Arctic Food Web (9)
  • Tectonic History of the Transantarctic Mountains (8)
  • Antarctic Automatic Weather Stations 2018 (6)
  • Oceanographic Conditions of Bowhead Whale Habitat (4)
  • Antarctic Ice Stream Dynamics (3)
  • Bering Ecosystem Study (3)
  • Microbial Changes in Arctic Freshwater (3)
  • Southern Ocean Diatoms (3)
  • Arctic Ground Squirrel Studies 2014 (2)
  • Ice Cube Neutrino Observatory 2014 (2)
  • Microbialites In Lake Joyce Antarctica (2)
  • Operation IceBridge Arctic (2)
  • Polar Gigantism in Antarctica (2)
  • Seafloor Organisms and Changing Ocean Conditions in Antarctic (2)
  • Winter Sampling (2)
  • Airborne Survey of Polar Ice (1)
  • Airborne Survey of Polar Ice 2014 (1)
  • Arctic Ground Squirrel Studies (1)
  • Arctic Ground Squirrel Studies 2017 (1)
  • Arctic Sunlight and Microbial Interactions 2014 (1)
  • Bering Ecosystem Study 08 (1)
  • Climate Change and Pollinators in the Arctic (1)
  • Dynamic Observations of the Microstructural Evolution of Firn (1)
  • Ecosystem Study of the Chukchi Shoal (1)
  • Geologic Climate Research in Siberia (1)
  • Glacial History in Antarctica (1)
  • Human Impacts in Antarctica (1)
  • IceCube and The Askaryan Radio Array 2019 (1)
  • IceCube In-ice Antarctic Telescope 2010 (1)
  • IceCube In Ice Antarctic Telescope 2012 (1)
  • Microbial Changes in Arctic Freshwater 2016 (1)
  • Nutrient Transport in Arctic Watersheds (1)
  • Operation IceBridge 2017 (1)
  • Sea Floor Changes and the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (1)
  • Sliding Glaciers (1)
  • Space Weather Monitoring on the Antarctic Plateau (1)
  • Weddell Seals in the Ross Sea 2014 (1)
  • Winter Respiration in the Arctic (1)
  • (-) Weddell Seals in the Ross Sea (4)
  • (-) MOSAiC (2)

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