Article in Polar Record written by ARCUS staff and PolarTREC alumni educators that shares impacts of participating in a Teacher Research Experience.
Abstract: PolarTREC-Teachers and Researchers Exploring and Collaborating (PolarTREC) has provided the opportunity for over 160 K-12 teachers and informal science educators from the USA to work directly with scientists in the Arctic and the Antarctic. As a Teacher
This PolarConnect event was conducted with PolarTREC teacher Claude Larson, and members of the research team that she worked with on the Prehistoric Human Response to Climate Change 2010 project in Kamchatka, Russia.
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.
Kirk Beckendorf, along with researchers from the University of Wisconsin Madison are based at McMurdo Station, Antarctica and traveling around the continent maintaining automatic weather stations. About 300 students from about 13 states joined the event.