Comments on: Arctic tales for your students http://blogs.earthsky.org/jorgesalazar/science/091016/take-your-students-to-the-north-and-south-poles/ Air, oceans, Earth. Fri, 25 Jul 2008 12:40:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: deborahbyrd http://blogs.earthsky.org/jorgesalazar/science/091016/take-your-students-to-the-north-and-south-poles/#comment-604 deborahbyrd Wed, 12 Sep 2007 12:02:24 +0000 http://blogs.earthsky.org/jorgesalazar/earth/091016/take-your-students-to-the-north-and-south-poles/#comment-604 I got to visit Antarctica in the early 1990s with as a "visiting journalist" for the National Science Foundation. And at the South Pole, while I was there in summer, it was something like 20 below. I took a stroll outside the geodesic dome that houses the science unit there, to see the marker at the South Pole itself ... venturing out with one of the scientists ... and I remember that my host's mustache froze, complete with icicles, within minutes! That was <i>summer</i> at the South Pole. Deborah I got to visit Antarctica in the early 1990s with as a “visiting journalist” for the National Science Foundation. And at the South Pole, while I was there in summer, it was something like 20 below. I took a stroll outside the geodesic dome that houses the science unit there, to see the marker at the South Pole itself … venturing out with one of the scientists … and I remember that my host’s mustache froze, complete with icicles, within minutes!

That was summer at the South Pole.

Deborah

]]> By: Larry Sessions http://blogs.earthsky.org/jorgesalazar/science/091016/take-your-students-to-the-north-and-south-poles/#comment-597 Larry Sessions Tue, 11 Sep 2007 19:28:26 +0000 http://blogs.earthsky.org/jorgesalazar/earth/091016/take-your-students-to-the-north-and-south-poles/#comment-597 And don't forget that there is a great new National Geographic film called "Arctic Tale":http://www.arctictalemovie.com/ And don’t forget that there is a great new National Geographic film called “Arctic Tale”:http://www.arctictalemovie.com/

]]> By: jorgesalazar http://blogs.earthsky.org/jorgesalazar/science/091016/take-your-students-to-the-north-and-south-poles/#comment-596 jorgesalazar Tue, 11 Sep 2007 19:19:27 +0000 http://blogs.earthsky.org/jorgesalazar/earth/091016/take-your-students-to-the-north-and-south-poles/#comment-596 I don't know the story behind why Dr. Alley decided to take an ice bath. But I do know that strange things can happen on the polar landscape, as evidenced by the statue pictured above and photographed by astronomer <a href="http://cosmology.berkeley.edu/group/swlh/" rel="nofollow">William Holzapfel</a> of Berkeley during his study of cosmic microwave background radiation in the Antarctic. I don’t know the story behind why Dr. Alley decided to take an ice bath.

But I do know that strange things can happen on the polar landscape, as evidenced by the statue pictured above and photographed by astronomer William Holzapfel of Berkeley during his study of cosmic microwave background radiation in the Antarctic.

]]> By: sglasson http://blogs.earthsky.org/jorgesalazar/science/091016/take-your-students-to-the-north-and-south-poles/#comment-595 sglasson Tue, 11 Sep 2007 18:44:05 +0000 http://blogs.earthsky.org/jorgesalazar/earth/091016/take-your-students-to-the-north-and-south-poles/#comment-595 Haha, he looks happier than I think I'd be if I were laying in ice. Where is he, the Arctic? Was he doing some experiment or just trying to get an interesting pic? This pic gives me brain freeze just looking at it. Brrrrrr! Haha, he looks happier than I think I’d be if I were laying in ice. Where is he, the Arctic? Was he doing some experiment or just trying to get an interesting pic? This pic gives me brain freeze just looking at it. Brrrrrr!

]]> By: Jorge Salazar http://blogs.earthsky.org/jorgesalazar/science/091016/take-your-students-to-the-north-and-south-poles/#comment-594 Jorge Salazar Tue, 11 Sep 2007 18:00:10 +0000 http://blogs.earthsky.org/jorgesalazar/earth/091016/take-your-students-to-the-north-and-south-poles/#comment-594 That's renowned Earth scientist Richard Alley of Penn State University. He looks shaken but not stirred. That’s renowned Earth scientist Richard Alley of Penn State University. He looks shaken but not stirred.

]]> By: sglasson http://blogs.earthsky.org/jorgesalazar/science/091016/take-your-students-to-the-north-and-south-poles/#comment-591 sglasson Tue, 11 Sep 2007 16:25:22 +0000 http://blogs.earthsky.org/jorgesalazar/earth/091016/take-your-students-to-the-north-and-south-poles/#comment-591 So what's the story with the interesting picture? So what’s the story with the interesting picture?

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