Presentation prepared for the Rochester Community Schools Board of Education related to the PolarTREC 2017 Neutron Monitors for Solar Study expedition.
Eric Thuma, a physics teacher at Stoney Creek High School, recently spent three weeks in Antarctica assisting in scientific polar research.
Eric Thuma stands on the McMurdo Ice Sheet, preparing to extract a seismometer. (Photo provided by Dr. Doug MacAyeal)
Local news source in Rochester, MI covers the deployment of Eric Thuma to McMurdo Station.
Port Aransas teachers set off to study ecosystems in the Arctic...one in the Chukchi Sea and the other at Kaktovic.
Andrea Skloss and Jill Smith goes to the Arctic are headed to the Arctic from Texas to study with researcher Ken Dunton.
Article in the Port Aransas' South Jetty newspaper regarding the two PolarTREC expeditions with teachers from the local area headed to the Arctic.