Spanish Article Title: Profesor puertorriqueño participará en una misión científica en la Antártida
An EFE wire service news story published in Primera Hora, about Armando Caussade heading to the South Pole as part of the IceCube project. This resource is in Spanish.
This story was also published in: Índice PR, El Expresso de Puerto Rico, MSN Latino, Fox News Latino
Spanish Article Title: Profesor puertorriqueño realizará investigaciones en el Polo Sur
A news story from Mi Puerto Rico Verde (online environmental news) about Armando Caussade heading to the South Pole as part of the IceCube project. This resource is in Spanish.
Spanish Article Title: Sondeando los confines del universo detectando neutrinos
A Diario de Puerto Rico news story about Armando Caussade heading to the South Pole as part of the IceCube project. Also published in Telemundo Puerto Rico (WKAQ-TV channel 2). This resource is in Spanish.
Spanish Article Title: Puertorriqueño visitará el Polo Sur para investigación científica con PolarTREC
English Article Title: Puerto Rican educator will visit the South Pole for scientific research with PolarTREC
An online news story about teacher Armando Caussade heading to the South Pole as part of the IceCube project. This resource is in both Spanish and English.
Spanish Article Title: Puertorriqueño formará parte de misión científica al Polo Sur
A news story about PolarTREC teacher Armando Caussade traveling to the South Pole as part of the IceCube project in December 2014. This resource is in Spanish.
IceCube announced that Armando Caussade, a STEM educator from Puerto Rico, will travel to the South Pole, Antarctica, during the 2014–2015 polar season to support maintenance work on the IceCube Neutrino Observatory. An experienced communicator inside and outside the classroom, Caussade is passionate about science and, in particular, astronomy.
This activity was adapted from a TEA activity authored by:
* Sandra Kolb, Education Consultant, Poulsbo, Washington
* Kolene Krysl, Westside Community Schools, Omaha, Nebraska
* Larry Rose, Pleasanton Middle School, Pleasanton, California
* Wendy Slijk, La Costa Canyon High School, San Diego County, California
The original activity can be found at: http://tea.armadaproject.org/activity/kolb/tobesaltyseaiceornottobesaltyseaice_main.html
The Kuril Biocomplexity Project is a National Science Foundation-funded research project led by the University of Washington and being conducted by a team of American, Japanese and Russian scholars and students who are examining a 5000-year history of human-environmental interactions along the Kuril Island chain in the northwest Pacific Ocean. This is the link to the project website.