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AN: ED12C-02 INVITED     [PDF]
TI: A Journalist's View From the Bottom of the Earth
AU: * Harris, R
EM: rharris@npr.org
AF: National Public Radio, 635 Massachusetts Ave, NW, Washington, DC 20001 United States
AB: Each year, a few journalists travel to Antarctica under the aegis of the National Science Foundation, to report about research at the ends of the earth. National Public Radio science correspondent Richard Harris took that trip in November, 2000. Listeners, readers and viewers are fascinated by exotic locales, so a trip to the ice provides an ideal backdrop to report on topics such as limnology and glaciology, which are otherwise unlikely to make the news. Journalists have to be flexible and creative - just as the researchers do - to overcome constraints imposed by weather and logistics. In this case, a trip to the West Antarctic Ice Sheet was canceled at the last minute and replaced with a trip to study the chemistry of an icebound lake in the McMurdo Dry Valleys. But the essential ingredient for a compelling story remained the same: Scientists, willing to endure hardship to pursue their passion.
DE: 5462 Polar regions
DE: 6605 Education
DE: 9310 Antarctica
SC: Education and Human Resources [ED]
MN: 2003 Fall Meeting