This PolarConnect event was held on 14 December 2010 with Lesley Urasky, John Stone, and the rest of the research team working on the Glacial History in Antarctica expedition. The event was conducted from McMurdo Station, Antarctica.
This PolarConnect event features PolarTREC Teacher Josh Dugat and the Long-Term Circumpolar Permafrost Monitoring research team calling in from Barrow, Alaska. This event was closed to the public and conducted with the Success at Schwartz Academy in New Orleans, Louisiana.
This was a real-time event with PolarTREC teacher Casey O'Hara being broadcast from the South Pole Station, Antarctica. Casey presented on the IceCube telescope project and covered a bit about life at the South Pole station.
The Live from IPY event was held on May 5, 2008 with Katie Pena and the research team on the Nathanial B. Palmer Icebreaker in the Drake Passage between Chile and Antarctica. About 160 students and adults participated from about 8 different groups.
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.