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Tuesday, 16 January 2007 21:10
Water and Ice: Why Study Them?
Water is a phenomenal molecule, and the International Polar Year offers an opportunity for us to revisit this element of life that we often take for granted, especially its crystalized and frozen state. Water is both remarkably simple (two parts hydrogen-- the first element in the universe, one part oxygen-- the eighth element) and amazingly complex; its behavior at the "triple-point," where it flickers between liquid, solid and gaseous phases, amazes even atomic physicists.
Unlike other molecules, water is more dense in its liquid than solid states, which allows ice to float. Therefore, lifeforms can survive, even thrive, beneath the ice.
Scientists studying global climate change and the impact of human activities on the climate and ecosystems pay particula...
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Tuesday, 16 January 2007 20:53
Experiments with Snow or Ice
Photo from Baffin Bay
Do one or several of these investigations and think about the results.
• Measure the temperature in the snow and compare with the temperature in the air.
• Mix ice or snow with water in a beaker and measure the temperature. What will happen if you change the proportions of the mix? Try to explain.
• Put ice or snow in a beaker. Measure the temperature. Pour salt in the beaker and stir. Do the temperature change? Why or why not?
• Measure the air temperature with a common thermometer. Wrap a thin kitchen paper around the thermometer and make the paper wet. Does the temperature change? Wave the wet thermometer and make a new reading. Try to explain.
Imagine if you are living in the Arctic. ...
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Tuesday, 16 January 2007 06:36
Launch A Virtual Balloon
On March 1st, 2007, students around the world are participating in ice experiments to celebrate the launch of the International Polar Year. To show that you've taken part in some kind of IPY activity, launch a virtual balloon by following these simple instructions. You can visit the map with everyone's balloon markers on this site, or have it on your own website. Instructions for adding your own marker on the map: [Update: Be sure to use the "IPY" tag to add your balloon to the official map. (The test map used "ipylaunch2007".)] Step 1: Get a free account with Tagzania. Tagzania is a free location-tagging service. Once you have...
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Tuesday, 16 January 2007 02:50
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Looking for activities you might use in the classroom for the IPY launch?
Check out the "Ice in the Solar System"
Exploring Ice in the Solar System, a NASA-funded educational CD authored by Dr. Richard Shope from JPL and produced by Dr. Julie Edmonds at the Carnegie Academy for Science Education for the Carnegie Institutions of Washington MESSENGER and Astrobiology projects, was rated "outstanding" in a NASA space science education product review.
Twelve conceptual change lessons spring out from the activated curiosity inspired by the central Ice Experience lesson, moving from exploring ice in everyday life, to ice at the Polar Regi...
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Monday, 15 January 2007 23:24
IPY Events - 26 February to 2 March, 2007
Looking for activities you might use in the classroom for the IPY launch?
Check out the "Ice in the Solar System"
Exploring Ice in the Solar System, a NASA-funded educational CD authored by Dr. Richard Shope from JPL and produced by Dr. Julie Edmonds at the Carnegie Academy for Science Education for the Carnegie Institutions of Washington MESSENGER and Astrobiology projects, was rated "outstanding" in a NASA space science education product review.
Twelve conceptual change lessons spring out from the activated curiosity inspired by the central Ice Experience lesson, moving from exploring ice in everyday life, to ice at the Polar Regi...
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Monday, 15 January 2007 18:03
Greening the IPY
The IPY is ambitious in scope and in scale. The IPY Programme Office has endorsed 99 projects with Antarctic or bipolar focus for the IPY. These projects encompass at least 350 research activities, of which 82% plan to conduct fieldwork in Antarctica. Of these activities, 105 (37%) activities are planning to leave behind physical infrastructure. To date, only two have completed any environmental impact assessments.
The Antarctic Southern Ocean Coalition (ASOC) is conducting a project to enhance the environmental legacy of the IPY through outreach efforts to scientists, tourists and other visitors of Antarctica. We presented a poster on this subject at the Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco, USA in December 2006.
Our goal was to ra...
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Saturday, 13 January 2007 01:34
Ice in the Solar System Activities
Looking for activities you might use in the classroom for the IPY launch?
Check out the "Ice in the Solar System"
Exploring Ice in the Solar System, a NASA-funded educational CD authored by Dr. Richard Shope from JPL and produced by Dr. Julie Edmonds at the Carnegie Academy for Science Education for the Carnegie Institutions of Washington MESSENGER and Astrobiology projects, was rated "outstanding" in a NASA space science education product review.
Twelve conceptual change lessons spring out from the activated curiosity inspired by the central Ice Experience lesson, moving from exploring ice in everyday life, to ice at the Polar Regi...
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Friday, 12 January 2007 18:38
Outreach Activities for the International Permafrost Association (IPA)
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Friday, 12 January 2007 16:19
Has IPY already started?
In many places on this web site you will find reference to 'IPY launch' and launch events. Many of us work on an IPY Opening Ceremony scheduled for 1 March 2007. But, if you follow this blog, you have read reports from the vessel Tara, frozen into Arctic sea ice, and from Polarstern, already working near Antarctica in the southern ocean. You might have noticed in recent news and blogs that a Chilean and US expedition, on the Swedish vessel Oden, departed a ...
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Friday, 12 January 2007 00:48
IPY Graphics Elements - from Norway
Norway has developed a set of Visual Profile Elements for IPY. These include images, collages, fonts, colour schemes, textual graphics, and style manuals. The 'International Polar Year 2007-2008' text at the top of this and every other page of this web site comes from the Norwegian products; several other national IPY web sites use the same textual elements. We use other Norwegian-designed elements in our printed materials, and I use the textual elements, images, fonts and colour maps in all my presentations. We do not insist on the use of these elements, or declare them as the IPY standard. Instead, we feel very pleased to offer them for use by IPY participants, secretariats, and national organisations. Norway makes them available at no cost to the user. IPY IPO thanks the Norwe...
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