HR: 15:10h
AN: ED13A-07    [Abstracts]
TI: Education Outreach in Village Schools during the SnowSTAR 2007 Alaska-Canada Barren Lands Traverse.
AU: * Solie, D
EM: ffdjs@uaf.edu
AF: University of Alaska Fairbanks, UAF-ANSEP/HAARP Outreach PO Box 755940, Fairbanks, AK 99775, United States
AU: Sturm, M
EM: msturm@crrel.usace.army.mil
AF: USA-CRREL-Alaska, P.O. Box 35170, Ft. Wainwright, AK 99703-0170, United States
AU: Huntington, H
EM: hph@alaska.net
AF: Huntington Consulting, 23834 The Clearing Dr., Eagle River, AK 99577, United States
AU: Anderson, D
EM: resnorth@egle.ptialaska.net
AF: Research North, PO Box, Fairbanks, AK 99708, United States
AU: Derksen, C
EM: Chris.Derksen@ec.gc.ca
AF: Environment Canada, 4905 Dufferin Street, Toronto, ON M3H5T4, Canada
AB: In spring 2007, the IPY expedition, SnowSTAR-2007, traveled 4200 kilometers by snow machine across much of Alaska and Northern Canada. The primary objectives of the trip were education outreach, and collaborative US/Canadian field measurements of the snow along the route. The route started in Fairbanks, Alaska and ended in Baker Lake, Nunavut, Canada near Hudson passing through 11 communities. The primary outreach efforts during the expedition were the expedition website (http://www.barrenlands.org ) and in school presentations and interactive science demonstrations at most of the communities we visited. The website, used by school children in over 60 classrooms, and the the general public, was updated daily from the field. We gave presentations (classrooms and all-school assemblies), in nine communities. In the schools we demonstrated the equipment we use in the field, as well as two fun demonstrations of physical principles (acoustic resonance in a plastic sewer pipe and eddy current forces on a magnet falling through a copper water pipe). The community outreach was highly successful because we arrived in each community in a novel manner, and we were there during the winter when these communities are rarely visited by scientists.
UR: http://www.barrenlands.org
DE: 0800 EDUCATION
DE: 0805 Elementary and secondary education
DE: 0855 Diversity
SC: Education and Human Resources [ED]
MN: 2007 Fall Meeting