Beginning the TEA Adventure
Greetings from the US Army Cold Regions Research &
Engineering Laboratory (CRREL) in Hanover, New
Hampshire!
I?m here with 11 other educators from across the
country that have been chosen to parcticipate in the
Teachers Experiencing the Arctic or Antarctica (TEA)
program funded by the National Science Foundation and
facilitated by Rice University, the Cold Regions
Research & Engineering Laboratory and the American
Museum of Natural History This is our second day of
orientation and training and in the brief two days
we?ve been exposed an overwhelming amount of
information.
Several of the past TEA parcticipants and scientists
have shared their polar research experiences with us
and have provided insight about what to expect. I have
been assigned to the very diverse Arctic region where
I will travel to during the 2003/4 season. To say the
least, all twelve of us are extremely excited to be
chosen to for this opportunity.
Today we toured the research facilities at CRREL where
many amazing research projects are being under taken
involving ice, cold weather construction materials and
techniques among others.
Our tour included a visit to the cold rooms where
collected frozen materials are stored and cold related
experiments are conducted and the Ice Engineering
Research facility where various models and their
performance are tested under frozen and icy water
conditions.
Please join my colleagues and I as we prepare for our
polar research experiences during the next several
months. I invite questions from students and teachers
throughout my entire Arctic experience from the
preparation stages, in the field and post field
research.
I will periodically be adding to my journal and adding
images whenever possible.
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