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Annual Report for Andrew Sajor
January 15, 2004 - January 15, 2005

Continued Collaboration with Research Team Members

Type of Interaction / Outcomes / Dates / Locations / Parcticipants: Since my return from the field, I have been in contact with Drs. Hammer and Currie. In April,(28 - May 1) I arranged for Dr. Hammer to visit my school and also we jointly delivered a talk at the State University of New York at Plattsburgh. Since it will take some time for the preparators to clean the matrix from the newly discovered bones found on the expedition, there is little new work to commence, however Dr. Hammer has decided to return to the field and expects to do so in 2006-7 research year. He has told me to plan to be a member of the party. During his time here we also shot video footage to complete the footage I shot in the field so I can put together a program for school districts.

Has a member of your research team visited your classroom in the last year? Yes

2. Community / Colleague Outreach

Transfer

How are you sharing your research experience with your colleagues, district, community, etc? Since returning from Antarctica I have made the following presentations:

February 9, 2004: Boy Scouts of America, presentation.

February 22, 2004: Noon Rotary, presentation.

March 16, 2004: Plattsburgh City School District. Full day spent with K-12 students delivering 4 presentations. Spent time after each presentation talking with students about research techniques. Finished the day working with teachers showing them the TEA website and offering ideas how the program works with NYS curriculum.

March 18, 2004: Lake Forest, presentation.

March 25, 2004: Lions Club, presentation.

April 25, 2004: Collaborated with Distinguished Teaching Professor, Dr. Daphne Kutzer in a multimedia presentation entitled: The Art and Science of Antarctica. Dr. Kutzer went to Antarctica the previous season and wrote a collection of poems from her experiences. While I was in Antarctica, she would email me her poems and I would shoot images based on my interpretations of the work. We put them together in a multimedia presentation and presented it’s premiere to the Plattsburgh Unitarian Fellowship.

April 28th, Dr. Hammer’s visit. Talk with area high school students. We had sent out invitations to area high schools to come to Peru for a Paleo-symposium. We finished out the day with a presentation to the intermediate students in my district. We had television coverage at the high school and SUNY Plattsburgh talk.

May 7th Adirondack Mountain Club, presentation.

June 10, 2004: Science Teachers Association of New York State NE, keynote speaker at annual meeting. Presented Talk: TEA in Antarctica.

June 22, 2004: AM Rotary, presentation.

June 23-25, 2004 Parcticipant at the “Bridging the Poles Workshop” in Washington DC. Where I presented the Multimedia presentation “Art and science of Antarctica”. Dr. Wayne Sukow asked for, and received a copy of the work.

July 22, 2004: Huntington Lecture Series, Adirondack Ecological Center, Adirondack Park Agency Visitor Interpretive Center, Newcomb, NY. Presented talk called “Digging for Dinosaurs Down Under.”

September 23, 2004: Staff development day: Worked with District science teachers showing them the various ways to utilize the TEA website and TEA resources.

October 15, 2004: Presbyterian Church Civic Center: Presentation.