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Win a Climate Grant with Project Polar Bear

#ProjectPolarBear is an international competition for middle and high school student groups taking action to fight climate change. Teams compete by creating a plan for a project that will help reduce reliance on fossil fuels and engage their…
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Arctic Future Podcast on World Ocean Radio!

This week's audio episode of World Ocean Radio entitled "Arctic Futures, Part One" is now available online Part one of a four-part series on the Arctic. In this episode, host Peter Neill examines governance, oversight, resources, and the…
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Attention Classroom Educators!

Our Antarctic research team needs your classroom's help!  We are using satellite images to find Weddell seals in Antarctica. This ongoing project needs many eyes to search the images and find the seals.  It's easy. All your students have…
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Attention Polar Scientists

Do you have a science story or example that connects to any of the polar literacy principles? Call for Ideas for Polar Literacy Media: Polar ICE wants to illustrate these principles with stories and examples told by scientists that we…
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University of Virginia Welcomes Palmer LTER Scientist Dr. Scott Doney

Scott Doney recently joined the UVA Department of Environmental Sciences as Professor of Environmental Change.  He introduces himself to the UVA community in this blog post, which places his research into the context of studying the impact…
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Drones at the Long term Ecological Research (LTER) at Palmer Station

The Duke University Marine Lab is the first to win Federal Aviation Administration certification to operate scientific drones and provide training.  Dr. David Johnson, assistant professor of the practice of marine conservation ecology at Duke…
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California student scientists knock it out of the park!

There was a buzz in the air as the students talked through how the ecosystems of Antarctica had changed over time. Were we witnessing a class report on Antarctica that they had looked up on google? No! On February 24, 2017 we were…
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You’re the Expert Podcast with Oscar Schofield is OUT!

Hi Everyone - Please check out Oscar Schofield's podcast with the NPR show You're the Expert.
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SST, PAR, chlorophyll, sea ice…oh my! – a story behind a teacher-scientist partnership

We interviewed Matt Fichter, a Palmer LTER RET, and Nicole Waite to hear a bit more about their teacher-scientist partnership as they developed a data-focused lesson plan for middle school earth and space science class during the summer of 2016. The…
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Bringing Whale DNA to High School Students – story of the teacher-scientist partnership

We interviewed Alexis Custer, a Palmer LTER RET, and Logan Pallin to hear a bit more about their teacher-scientist partnership as they developed a data-focused lesson plan for high school biology during the summer of 2016. The Data Nugget:…
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Talking about the Sci-I Project with the U.S. Secretary of Education

Pam Gildersleeve-Hernandez, Superintendent/Principal at San Antonio Elementary School, traveled from southern Monterey County, CA to Washington D.C. to talk with the U.S. Secretary of Education, Dr. John King, in late October. As one of…
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Polar-ICE Sci-I Project 2017-18 Cohort Resources

The Polar-ICE Sci-I Project 2017-18 cohort included a fantastic group of 19 middle and early high school educators from New Jersey, Ohio, Missouri, Colorado, Utah, and central California. Below is information about participating educators,…