This archive is for Webinar 2 focusing on pre-field preparations and activities for the 2017-18 PolarTREC Arctic cohort. This event was held on 4 April 2017.
Teacher Josh Heward discusses research with the "Tough Tardigrades Team" in the McMurdo Dry Valleys in Antarctica where they search for tardigrades and other microorganisms that live in the soil.
Teacher Tim Dwyer discusses the Antarctica Treaty in conjunction with Antarctica Day 2016. He and Dr. Art Woods also discuss the research being done on Polar Gigantism on sea spiders based out of McMurdo Station.
Teacher David Thesenga and the Ice Shelf Flow and Fracture Dynamics Research Team discuss field work on the McMurdo Shear Zone (SZ) live from Antarctica.
The Follow A Researcher (FAR) website from the University of Maine will be releasing weekly videos starting the first week of October closely following the Ice Shelf Flow and Fracture Dynamics Expedition in Antarctica.
Teacher Cara Pekarcik and researcher Dr. Bethany Jenkins discuss the science behind the expedition "Southern Ocean Diatoms" while aboard the Nathaniel B. Palmer in the Southern Ocean near Antarctica.