International AGAP project

The International AGAP project is exploring one of the most remote areas on the Earth to determine the history and nature of the formation of a mountain that rivals the Alps, but which is buried under four kilometers of ice. The Gamburtsev Mountains were discovered by the Russian East Antarctic traverse through seismic blasting as they travelled across Dome A in the last IPY. Fifty years later through the support of six nations, two remote base camps (AGAP S and AGAP N) and nine aircraft we are back to capture images of this remarkable land feature and to learn of its origin, how it has influenced the formation of subglacial lakes, the East Antarctic Ice Sheet, and to attempt to determine where the oldest ice of the Antarctic continent may be found. Join this adventure through the websites & blogs of the various countries - US, UK, Australia, Germany, China, Japan Home page: http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/agap Includes education section (Blog for AGAP S camp run through Scienctific American is linked to this homepage) British Antarctic Survey webpage & blog http://agap-north.blogspot.com/ Australian webpage & blog http://www.aad.gov.au/default.asp?casid=35373 Margie Turrin Education Coordinator Lamont_Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University 61 Rte 9W Palisades NY 10964 845-365-8494 mkt@ldeo.colu,bia.edu

Bunch of IPY stuff, January 09

A bunch of IPY stuff (of interest I hope, please review) from the last while. Happy New Year!

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Congratulations to Turtle Haste (Project Circle teacher from New Mexico) and her "Sun Shadows" team! Their science experiment made the front page of the Antarctic Sun. (http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=1677 ) ANDRILL has adopted and featured this experiment as part of our Project Circle. (www.andrill.org/education click on "Project Circle" then "Sun Shadows")

The next Polar Day will focus on Polar Oceans and occur between March 18th and 25th. The Day will include an ocean-related classroom activity translated in many languages, several live events connecting students around the world with polar researchers, and web pages filled with activities and scientific information about current ocean research.

We are currently looking for scientists involved in ocean-related research who would like to become involved in these events around the

world,- please pass this message on to colleagues and students who might be interested in participating in IPY Education and Outreach. For more information, please contact Nicola Munro (ipy1@bas.ac.uk ) and Rhian Salmon (ipy.ras@gmail.com ).

Join in our Polar Cruise Blog coming to you from the R/V Laurence M. Gould beginning Tuesday, January 6th through approximately Friday, February 9th, 2009.

For more information, check out the website, http://pal.lternet.edu/outreach/blogs/cruise/

Hi everyone, I'm leaving on 1/2/2009 for a two month research cruise to the Amundsen Sea, Antarctica. I'll be attempting to keep in touch with a blog, which you can find at http://nbp-0901.blogspot.com. I'm hoping to make this more interactive than 2007 -- so please participate. It'll be fun, I promise. Let me know if you see obvious problems or have suggestions for something to add before I leave. Look forward to getting back in touch when I return! Chris Christopher Little Princeton University Department of Geosciences Guyot Hall, Room 28 Princeton, NJ 08544 609.258.4665 www.princeton.edu/~cmlittle http://nbp-0901.blogspot.com

The National Snow and Ice Data Center has released a new educational Web site. For more information, visit the site at http://nsidc.org/frozenground/ or contact NSIDC User Services at nsidc@nsidc.org. NSIDC's newest education offering, All About Frozen Ground (http://nsidc.org/frozenground/), provides comprehensive information about the importance of frozen ground. Frozen ground and permafrost, or ground that stays frozen for at least two years, is key to our understanding of climate, frozen ground ecosystems, and the interaction between land and atmosphere. Explore All About Frozen Ground to learn about the science behind frozen ground and why frozen ground matters to people, plants, and animals all over the world. Read an interview with permafrost expert and NSIDC Senior Scientist Tingjun Zhang, and browse a list of reading and classroom activities for K-12 learners. While you're there, submit comments on the site using our feedback form. Best regards, Betsy Sheffield NSIDC

In light of recent developments that threaten to lead to the break-up of the Wilkins Ice Shelf, the European Space Agency (ESA) is making daily satellite images of the ice shelf available to the public via the 'Webcam' from Space web page in order to monitor the developments as they occur.

Read more at:

http://www.esa.int/esaEO/SEM2DKSTGOF_index_0.html

The IPY IPO is building an ‘IPY memories’ photo gallery on ipy.org. Please join in if you would like your photos included — they don’t need to be of professional quality or of particular content, just images that reflect your experience of IPY. We are especially looking for images of IPY participants, whether at meetings, in the office or lab, or in the field.

For details of the submission process, please visit http://www.ipy.org/index.php?ipy/detail/ipy_photo_project/

IPY and the 5th World Environmental Education Congress | Earth, our common home

5th World Environmental Education Congress | Earth, our common home:

Polar Year partners and circumpolar environmental educators are encouraged to consider participation at the World EE Congress in Montreal next May. There is a specific symposium planned for IPY and Polar Issues. Please distribute to EE partners in other circumpolar nations!! "The International Polar Year Canada is a circumpolar nation and participant in International Polar Year research and celebrations. This symposium provides an opportunity to invite environmental educators from other circumpolar nations to present their work (all strands), and to bring circumpolar perspectives into discussions. But this is also an important opportunity to initiate and foster North-South dialogues around one or more of the 3 congress questions." Call for papers Deadline October 30

Free bilingual event webcast at the Canadian Museum of Civilization on September 24.

As part of International Polar Year, the Polar Year Secretariat Office invites you and your students to be part of an exciting and free bilingual event at the Canadian Museum of Civilization on September 24.

September 24 is International Polar Day – “People at the Poles” – as part of International Polar Year, a multi-faceted research and communications effort involving over 60 countries. Canada will be hosting a live webcast at 10:00 am until noon from the Canadian Museum of Civilization in Gatineau, QC. Canadian researchers will lead discussions regarding human-related studies and issues. Students on Ice and Schools on Board and free refreshments will be served.

We invite you to share this announcement and invitation to view and participate in Polar Day activities. If there are any questions and/or if more information is needed, please contact Barbara Robinson at 519.515.0338. Note there may also be a possibility for funding support to provide buses to transport high school students.

Thank you for your interest in International Polar Day!

Barbara Robinson IPY Program Consultant www.ipycanada.ca

"People at the Poles" Polar Day - Join us and celebrate on September 24! This is the first IPY to include the human health, social, political, and economic aspects of the Polar Regions in its research program and to engage polar communities in research development, implementation and dissemination and we are developing innovative ways to share this story with the broader IPY community and public. More information is available directly at http://www.ipy.org/index.php?/ipy/detail/people.

Whether you are a researcher, a teacher, a public educator or just interested in life at the poles, there are a number of ways you can get involved.

• Local and Global Discussion: Students can debate and discuss life in polar and non-polar communities, share their ideas with other students around the world and ask an expert about northern research. If you would like to get involved, download a flyer in your language, share around your networks, and talk to students in your area and around the world on People Day!
• LIVE Radio events: For 24 hours on People Day CKLB Radio will be connecting people around the world through a webstream at www.ncsnwt.com or tune in live to 101.9FM in Canada's North. From 1:00-3:00pm EST, hear researchers and community leaders who work and live at the poles talk about their experiences. Students, general public, researchers - anyone - can call in toll free (1-877-217-2552) or blog (www.ncsnwt.com) to speak LIVE with the radio show announcers and experts.
• Polar Day Public Event in Ottawa and Live Webcast: A Polar Day public event will be webcast live at 10 am EST from the Canadian Museum of Civilization in Gatineau, Quebec, where IPY researchers will discuss their people-related research in the North. Invitees to this event will include representatives from the Ottawa Inuit Community, Students on Ice and the Circumpolar Young Leaders Program, as well as members of Northern Aboriginal organizations, Ottawa universities and high schools. This event will also be broadcast live on the web on the IPY Federal Program website - www.ipycanada.ca. Join us at the museum or tune in and watch the show!

We hope you will circulate this around your networks and Get Involved in IPY! We are still looking for northern schools to get involved in all three Polar Day activities, please contact Kristi Skebo (skebo@ualberta.ca) for more information.

Where in the World" page: ANDRILL

Hello IPY teachers, Check out ANDRILL's two new websites: www.andrillc2s2.org and www.andrillprojectcircle.org. Go to the "Where in the World" page and add a marker showing where your school is! Hope you will join us as our ANDRILL science team heads to Antarctica with teacher, Shakira Brown in Oct. Let me know if you have any questions! Louise -- ANDRILL Coordinator of Education and Public Outreach 630-460-3688 ANDRILL Science Management Office 126 Bessey Hall University of Nebraska-Lincoln Lincoln, NE 68588-0341 402-472-6723

Education, Communication and Outreach – Linking Research to Public Policy and Environmental Awareness

Dear colleagues and researchers,

Education, Communication and Outreach – Linking Research to Public Policy and Environmental Awareness Session Announcement and Call for Abstracts – Oral and poster presentations Arctic Changes 2008 Quebec City, QC - Canada 9-12 December 2008 Abstract Submission Deadline: Friday, September 26 2008. Abstract submission guidelines are available HERE . As you may already know, ArcticNet (www.arcticnet-ulaval.ca) and its national and international partners are welcoming the international Arctic research community to Quebec City for the International Arctic Change 2008 Conference. Coinciding with the pinnacle of the International Polar Year and the 400th anniversary of Quebec City, Arctic Change 2008 welcomes researchers, students, policy makers and stakeholders from all fields of Arctic research and all countries to address the global challenges and opportunities brought by climate change in the circum-Arctic. With 36 topical sessions and over 500 participants expected to attend, Arctic Change 2008 will be the largest trans-sectoral international Arctic research conference ever held in Canada. The conference will be held at the Quebec City Convention Centre from 9-12 December 2008. One of the sessions being offered this year is Education, Communication and Outreach – Linking Research to Public Policy and Environmental Awareness Session Description: This session will feature a wide continuum of programs and initiatives that have successfully integrated education, communication and outreach into scientific research. We invite researcher, graduate students, educators, and outreach providers to take this opportunity to share their successes and ideas by submitting an abstract for an oral presentations in one of the following categories: 1) effective research partnerships between scientists and schools, 2) unique field experiences, 3) successful community-based monitoring and mentoring programs, 4) public education and 5) outcomes from IPY – sustaining the momentum! The session will be complemented by a dedicated poster session highlighting outreach projects and initiatives. This poster session will make it possible for anyone who is doing outreach within ArcticNet (on any scale) to showcase their initiatives and the people (ie students, teachers, public etc.) or institutions (school, museums, media etc.) that they are working with. The poster session will be accompanied by a Smithsonian exhibit - The Arctic a Friend Acting Strangely. All posters will be accepted, and presenters, do not have to be present. The aim is to show the breadth of outreach activities that is occurring within the Arctic research community. Schools on Board will present an outreach award to recognize an individual or group that is taking a leading role in scientific outreach. Please forward this call to people within your network that may be interested in this session. For further information, please go to: Or contact: Lucette Barber, Schools on Board Email: barberL@cc.umanitoba.ca Tel: 204-799-7328 --------------------

RE: PolarTREC non-US teacher participation

Dear Lucky, My name is Kristin, and I am the other PolarTREC project manager. Applications form non U.S. teachers will be addressed on a case-by- case basis with NSF program officers. Please feel free to apply and make sure to clearly describe how your participation will benefit the students and community you work with and your professional career. Best luck, Kristin Timm