This Live from IPY! event was held with PolarTREC teacher Tim Martin and University of Massachusetts researcher Dr. Julie Brigham-Grette from the Lake El'gygytgyn scientific drilling project in Siberia. Due to technical difficulties running Wimba, only an audio recording and a PDF of the slides is available for this event.
This Live from IPY! event was held with PolarTREC teacher, Betsy Wilkening and University of California Davis researcher, Harry Beine who are studying the interactions between snow, atmosphere, ice sheets, and the ocean in Barrow, Alaska.
This Live from IPY event was a private event held with J.C. Parks Elementary School, and other regional Maryland Schools. PolarTREC teacher, Deanna Wheeler presented along with researchers studying various components of the Bering Sea ecosystem. The audience was primarily elementary school students.
This Live from IPY! event was held for the International Polar Day: Oceans on 25 March 2009. Presenters included Dr. Lee Cooper on board the USCGC Healy in the Bering Sea and Dr. Andy Mahoney who joined from the Scott Base in Antarctica. The presenters talked about polar ocean ecology, sea ice, and it's interactions in the polar oceans.
How did you become interested in studying chemical oceanography, and how did you get your current job?
Calvin grew up in Kansas. While in college he saw a flyer for a summer class doing chemical oceanography. That is all it took, and he was hooked! This experience then inspired him to go to graduate school in chemical oceanography.
Los Angeles Times article highlights PolarTREC teacher, Elizabeth Eubanks preparations for her PolarTREC research experience in the arctic tundra of Barrow, Alaska.