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PolarTREC - Ice Core Drilling in West Antarctica
PolarTREC (Teachers and Researchers Exploring and Collaborating in the Arctic and Antarctic) is a program of the Arctic Research Consortium of the United States (ARCUS), funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) in which K-12 teachers participate in polar research, working closely with scientists as a pathway to improving science education. PolarTREC builds on the outstanding scientific and cultural opportunities in the Arctic and Antarctic to link research and education through intriguing topics that will engage students and the wider public.
Heidi Roop will be blogging for PolarTREC from approximately November 12 - February 1, 2010. Heidi is a science technician at WAIS Divide logging and handling the ice core as it is drilled. |
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Ice Stories: Dispatches from Polar Scientists - WAIS Divide Ice Drilling
For the International Polar Year, the Exploratorium gave polar scientists cameras and blogging tools and asked them to document their field work.
Heidi Roop will soon be blogging for Ice Stories -- check back soon for the link to Heidi's blog!! Heidi is a science technician at WAIS Divide logging and handling the ice core as it is drilled. |
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Discovery Channel Live Earth - Antarctica: Drilling into the Past
During the 2009/2010 field season Dr. Maria Banks will be at WAIS Divide blogging for Discovery Channel Live Earth. Dr. Banks is a science technician at WAIS Divide logging and handling the ice core as it is drilled. |
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Anna McKee - Ice Cores, Transluscent Truths from the West Antarctic Ice Sheet
Anna McKee was selected for the National Science Foundation's Antarctic Artist and Writers Program to travel to West Antarctica to sketch, photograph, and observe the WAIS Divide Ice Core Project field camp and surrounding ice sheet plateau. The artist plans to create a suite of etchings and multimedia prints based on this source material. The artwork will be exhibited, published in a catalog, and shared with the public through a series of artist talks and school presentations. |
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WAIS Divide Ice Core Project Outreach |
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November 2008 - January 2009: Various people down in Antarctica will be contributing blogs this year. You can read them all here.
Tufts University: Zach Smith, November 2007- January 2008 |
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Transmissions from the Ice Sheet: An Oregon State University Student braves the Antarctic |
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Transmissions from the Ice Sheet is a chronicle of Logan Mitchell’s trek to Antarctica as a member of a the WAIS Divide Ice Core field team. Mitchell, a Ph.D. student in geosciences at Oregon State University and part of Dr. Ed Brook’s ice coring lab, will work at the WAIS Divide research station as a core handler during the 2008/2009 field season- ultimately part of the core will end up in Brook’s lab, where he and his group will study it in order to reconstruct a record of Antarctic climate change over the last 100,000 years. Transmissions will give the world a window into the day-to-day life of a scientist working in a remote and inhospitable place.
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Borehole Optical Stratigraphy |
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University of Washington: Ben Smith and Jessica Drees, December 2006 |
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Evolution of the central West Antarctic Ice Sheet using ice-penetrating radar |
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University of Washington: Kenny Matsuoka, Ryann Eastman, Joe MacGregor, and Donovan Power, 2005 |
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PRISM (Polar Radar for Ice Sheet Measurements) |
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University of Kansas, Dec 2005-Jan 2006
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Blogs
This site is administered by the WAIS Divide Ice Core Project Science Coordination Office (Desert Research Institute and University of New Hampshire). This material is based on work supported by the National Science Foundation under award OPP-0440817 to the Desert Research Institute, Nevada System of Higher Education. Any opinions, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.