This article and associated video describe the findings of researchers who undertook core drilling at Lake El’gygytgyn, a lake that sits today inside a basin formed by a meteorite that struck the earth 3.6 million years ago. An associated video allows us to hear the enthusiasm and details as researcher Julie Brigham-Grette describes the findings of this remarkable discovery.
Tara Hastings, WDTN Meteorologist visited Graham High School to talk with PolarTREC teacher Chantelle Rose about her Winter Sampling expedition. A video interview will remain as an external link to WDTN webpage.
PolarTREC Teacher Chantelle Rose is featured in this WDTN Channel 2 News Story before her departure on the USCG Cutter Healy for her Winter Sampling Expedition.
This is a web story from a featured news story on Channel 2 KTUU TV, Anchorage's New Source on PolarTREC teacher Chantelle Rose's Winter Sampling experience.
PolarTREC teacher Chantelle Rose wrote a guest column for the The Urbana Daily Citizen. This is the final installment in a series of guest columns planned to cover the local teacher's trip to the Arctic.
PolarTREC teacher Chantelle Rose wrote a guest column for the The Urbana Daily Citizen. This is the second in a series of guest columns planned to cover the local teacher's trip to the Arctic.
PolarTREC teacher Chantelle Rose wrote a guest column for the The Urbana Daily Citizen. This is the first in a series of guest columns planned to cover the local teacher's trip to the Arctic.
The sediment in Lake El'gygytgyn, (pronounced EL-ge-GIT-gin) located in NE Siberia, holds one of the longest records of climate change anywhere in the continental Arctic. How does sediment (clay and mud) tell us something about past climate? Proxy data! By studying the microfossils of diatoms and pollen in the sediment, we can re-construct the lake environment millions of