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Jamie Esler: A cool summer adventure

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Date: 2 June 2013
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Excerpt: Read this online interview with PolarTREC teacher Jamie Esler for a snapshot of his cool summer plans. Mr. Esler will be joining polar researchers Dr. Neal Iverson and Dr. Thomas Hooyer, and Scandinavian colleagues, in a remote location of Iceland for three weeks for his PolarTREC Expedition. The...

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Life Under Antarctica's Ice

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Date: 1 June 2013
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Excerpt: This story in Discover magazine profiles the work of the WISSARD (Whillans Ice Stream Subglacial Access Research Drilling) project team and the challenges faced by drilling thousands of feet into the West Antarctic Ice Sheet to reach a lake buried for millennia.

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Libertyville High School teacher sharing lessons from Greenland NASA mission

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Date: 24 May 2013
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Excerpt: This article summarizes PolarTREC teacher Mark Buesing’s amazing and varied career as a cyclist, engineer, teacher, and now participant on NASA's airborne mission to map and measure ice in the Polar Regions.

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Digging for the Secrets Beneath Antarctica

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Date: 1 June 2013
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Excerpt: Read about the WISSARD project and their quest to reach untapped sources of water trapped deep beneath the ice of Antarctica.

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Port Aransas Teachers at the Forefront of Arctic Research

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Date: 1 April 2013
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Excerpt: Andrea Skloss and Jill Smith goes to the Arctic are headed to the Arctic from Texas to study with researcher Ken Dunton.

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Port Aransas Teachers Will Go To The Arctic

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Date: 28 February 2013
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Excerpt: Article in the Port Aransas' South Jetty newspaper regarding the two PolarTREC expeditions with teachers from the local area headed to the Arctic.

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Teacher wins national fellowship for Arctic Ocean research

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Date: 8 May 2013
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Excerpt: PolarTREC teacher Bill Schmoker, one of 14 teachers nationwide, has been awarded the National Geographic Grosvenor Teacher Fellowship. This article describes his upcoming National Geographic expedition to the Arctic Ocean aboard its research ship 'Explorer'.

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Centennial Middle teacher heads to Arctic for second expedition

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Date: 12 May 2013
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Excerpt: PolarTREC alumni and science teacher Bill Schmoker is taking his second research trip to the Arctic this summer as one of a handful of educators chosen as a Lindblad Expeditions National Geographic Grosvenor Teacher Fellow.

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Teacher from Bristol gets up close with Greenland ice studies

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Date: 12 May 2013
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Excerpt: PolarTREC teacher Mark Buesing is interviewed post-expedition talking about his work with NASA in Greenland.

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PolarTREC teacher Jamie Esler named the 2013 School District Teacher of the Year

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Date: 8 May 2013
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Excerpt: PolarTREC teacher Jamie Esler was named the 2013 Coeur d’Alene School District Teacher of the Year! Read the news release here.

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NASA's IceBridge finishing up successful Arctic campaign

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Date: 30 April 2013
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Excerpt: Article describing the final stages of this year's Operation IceBridge, the NASA campaign to maintain and expand on Arctic ice measurements. Along with PolarTREC teacher Mark Buesing, the IceBridge team has successfully completed a variety of aerial measurements on sea ice, sub-ice bedrock and...

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Overture exhibit highlights Antarctic art from Monona Grove teacher, graduates

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Date: 26 April 2013
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Excerpt: Over three months in Antarctica, PolarTREC teacher Juan Botella took hundreds of pictures a day. He will now display many of those photos in an art exhibit entitled, "ArtArctic Science" at the Overture Center in Madison, WI. The exhibit includes not only Botella’s pictures but artwork by four...

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Vulnerability of Permafrost Carbon to Climate Change: Implications for the Global Carbon Cycle2

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Date: 8 September 2008 - 27 April 2013
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Excerpt: This scientific article, focuses on one of the largest pools of global carbon that is, the organic C stored in permafrost (perennially frozen) ground, and on the vulnerability to change under an increasingly warmer climate.

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Effects of experimental warming of air, soil and permafrost on carbon balance in Alaskan tundra

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Date: 1 July 2010 - 1 May 2011
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Excerpt: A scientific report describing the results of the CiPEHR Experiment as of 2011. This report attempts to answer these questions: (1) Does ecosystem warming cause a net release of C from the ecosystem to the atmosphere?, (2) Does the decomposition of old C that comprises the bulk of the soil C pool...

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Libertyville High teacher goes to Greenland with NASA

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Date: 13 April 2013
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Excerpt: Libertyville High's Mark Buesing working with NASA in Greenland. Veteran Libertyville High School science teacher Mark Buesing packed some cold-weather gear and headed to glacier-filled Greenland, where he is part of a NASA mission to study ice in both of our planet's polar regions.

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Parishville-Hopkinton teacher prepares for trip to Antarctica

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Date: 14 April 2014
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Excerpt: PolarTREC teacher Glenn clark is preparing for his 2013-14 expedition to Antarctica with researcher Amy Leventer.

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Middle school teacher brings arctic research to the classroom

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Date: 1 January 2013
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Excerpt: Mount St. Mary's College in Los Angeles profiles one of its alumni, teacher Cristina Solis who also happens to be a PolarTREC alumnus. Read about her journey to become an educator and her participation in a PolarTREC study of microbial activity in thawing arctic permafrost near Barrow, Alaska.

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Nobleboro Teacher and the Expedition Virtual Base Camp

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Date: 7 March 2013
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Excerpt: PolarTREC teacher Ken Williams' local newspaper article on presentations at school before his expedition to Denali National Park, Alaska.

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NASA Begins New Season Of Arctic Ice Science Flights

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Date: 20 March 2013
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Excerpt: Press release about the launch of Operation IceBridge's 2013 season of research activity and science flights over Arctic ice sheets and sea ice. Operation Icebridge will undertake survey flights over land and sea ice in and around Greenland and the Arctic Ocean through early May in order to...

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Teacher to give talk on Arctic climate changes

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Date: 20 March 2013
Excerpt: PolarTREC teacher Dan Frost receives press for his climate change and Svalbard polar science presentation in his community.

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West Morris Mendham teacher to assist scientists on tundra

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Date: 19 March 2013
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Excerpt: PolarTREC teacher Bruce Taterka's expedition to Toolik Field Station is featured in a local paper.

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Arctic trek to help Jenks teacher inspire students

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Date: 31 January 2013
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Excerpt: PolarTREC teacher Alicia Jenks is inspiring her students with her expedition to Toolik Field Station, Alaska. She will be studying Arctic Ground Squirrels.

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Teacher, students take a field trip to Alaska

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Date: 8 March 2013
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Excerpt: PolarTREC teacher Elizabeth Eubanks traveled to the Alaska Marine Science Symposium with her students. They presented a poster about their experience as her students.

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Libertyville Teacher Heading to NASA Polar Project

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Date: 13 February 2013
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Excerpt: Chicago Tribune article describing PolaTREC teacher Mark Buesing's expedition to Greenland with NASA's Operation IceBridge.

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Really Down South

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Date: 28 February 2013
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Excerpt: Article about earth science and environmental science teacher Mike LeBaron's expedition to Antarctica as part of the WISSARD project (Whillans Ice Stream Subglacial Access Research Drilling) at McMurdo Station, Antarctica.

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