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Why Can’t I Eat this Fish?

Students will discover how a simple action such as turning on a television will lead to toxins in our food supply. Many of these toxins concentrate in the Arctic because of long-range transport of pollutants in the atmosphere. Scientists in the OASIS project (http://www.polartrec.com/ocean-atmosphere-sea-ice-and-snowpack-interactions) study these pollutants in the Arctic. Students will learn about actions that they can take to

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Arctic
Less than a week
Middle School and Up
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  • Antarctic (2)
  • (-) Arctic (1)

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  • Middle School and Up (1)

Related Members

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Expeditions

  • Predatory Spiders in the Arctic Food Web (9)
  • Climate Change and Pollinators in the Arctic 2016 (5)
  • Bering Ecosystem Study (4)
  • Nuvuk Archaeology Studies (4)
  • Sliding Glaciers (4)
  • Dynamic Observations of the Microstructural Evolution of Firn (3)
  • Prehistoric Human Response to Climate Change (3)
  • Early Human Settlement in Arctic Alaska (2)
  • Jellyfish in the Bering Sea (2)
  • Operation IceBridge 2017 (2)
  • Operation IceBridge Arctic (2)
  • SEDNA Beaufort Sea Ice (2)
  • Antarctic Ice Stream Dynamics (1)
  • Arctic Glacial Lakes (1)
  • Arctic Ground Squirrel Studies 2017 (1)
  • Arctic Sunlight and Microbial Interactions (1)
  • Arctic Tundra Dynamics (1)
  • CO2 and pH Studies of the Arctic Ocean (1)
  • Forest Response to Arctic Environmental Change (1)
  • Greenland Education Tour 2011 (1)
  • Historical Ecology for Risk Management 2014 (1)
  • Kuril Islands Biocomplexity (1)
  • Microbial Changes in Arctic Freshwater (1)
  • Migration and Carry-Over Effects in Arctic Seabirds (1)
  • Nansen and Amundsen Basins Observational System (1)
  • Nutrient Transport in Arctic Watersheds (1)
  • Shrinking Arctic Icecaps (1)
  • Weddell Seals: Growing Up on Ice (1)
  • (-) Ocean, Atmosphere, Sea Ice, and Snowpack Interactions (1)

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  • Less than a week (1)

Topic

  • Life Science (7)
  • Earth Science (5)
  • Polar Science (5)
  • Environmental Studies (3)
  • Physical Science (1)
  • Polar Careers (1)
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