This one hour webinar is a great look at the PolarTREC 2014 Arctic expeditions. Each teacher presents a little about the research projects, implementation in the classroom, and outreach into communities.
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 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.