Polar Weekend Education

Suzanne and her team demonstrated ways to use data to create images of polar areas, like this generated image of Dome A in East Antarctica.

Using microscopes visitors could look at pollen samples from the Hudson Valley thousands of years ago.

Onlookers explore the effects of Greenland's melting ice sheets- a rise in global sea level as explaind by Yuri Gorokhovich.

Little explorers see what it feels like to live like the Sami, the indegenious people of northern Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia. This is a traditional Sami Lavvu or tent that is similar to the Native American teepee.

Tom Neumann and the IPY traverse team on this 2007-2009 expedition over across the East Antarctic Ice Sheet.

View drawings from this table (to scroll through slide by slide click the rightfacing double arrow once the slideshow opens).

Ken Hukins recaptures his IPY expedition experiences which occured over fifty years ago on Arctic Floating Station 'Alpha'.

Denise Holland worked with David Holland to demonstrate a miniature replica of the submarine that goes under the polar ice.

What is different about the Helo tent is its mobility, it has runners like skis so it can be dragged behind a snow mobile. It is so lightweight, it can also fly! The Helo can be slung from a helicopter, like in this photo. The helicopter is also where the Helo gets its name!

Demonsrtation of Ice Coring- With Charlie Bentley

Charlie Bentley demonstrates Ice Coring to unlookers.

 

A proud demonstration of an ice core.

Norbert Yankielun builds an igloo.

Women explorers' cards capture the interest of future explorers.

Lisbeth Urbibe shows students the effect of water on a Penguin's feather.

Vanessa Miller demonstrates to a little scientist how drilling for a core with the ANDRILL (see below) program works .

Stephen Parker explains the importance of the Antarctic geological Drilling (ANDRILL). ANDRILL studies Antarctic sedementary rock in the hope that they will be able to tell us more about the role that Antarctica plays in our global climate.

It's no easy life for a penguin. In an interactive zoo experience children like this simulate how penguins pick up eggs, rocks and their food by using kitchen tongs and smooth rocks.

Dr. Lecompte demonstrates how surface temperatures are measured in polar areas. By satellites in Space measuring the inafred radiation being emitted from the ice.

Explore how glaciers move with some gooey fun!

Four of the students who were chosen for the trip hosted a table after their lecture on their experiences.

Stephanie Pfirman works with students on understanding the importance of rising sea levels. Pictured here is Barnard undergraduate Krista Hoff teaching a student.

"The Northern Lights are caused by large eruptions on the sun that shakes up the earths magnetic field."- Dr. Pal Brekke