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Arctic Science in High School Environmental Science Classrooms
This spring Seth Spawn and I, and another St. Olaf student named Kirsten Maier, created a partnership with two environmental science high school teachers at Harding High School in St. Paul. Our objectives were to bring Arctic science into the classroom and use it as a tool to teach about the carbon cycle and climate change as well as how scientific research is conducted. In addition, we were hoping to learn how to share our research with non-scientists, create meaningful dialogue, and get high schoolers excited about the Arctic.
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The Polaris Project Reunites at the American Geophysical Union fall meeting, 2012
This December several Polaris Project undergraduate students presented their research at the American Geophysical fall meeting, one of the largest gatherings of Earth scientists.
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Ludwig et al 2012 AGU
Ludwig, S., Alexander, H. D., Bulygina, E., Mann, P. J., Natali, S. 2012. Fire Effects on Microbial Enzyme Activities in Larch Forests of the Siberian Arctic. American Geophysical Union, fall meeting, San Francisco, California. [download pdf]
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Fire & Enzymes
In these first five days we have managed to collect almost 1,000 lbs of twigs, branches, and logs. Then we dried all of them. Then we weighed all of them. Then we prepared our plots, which included clearing all of the plants on and around them, fluffing the moss so it dries, and taking pre-burn measurements. Finally, today, we burned.
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