Building Princess Elisabeth Station

http://www.polarfoundation.org/projects/detail/princess_elisabeth_antarctica

http://www.antarcticstation.org/station/

http://www.antarcticstation.org/assets/uploads/documents_files/brochure_pea_19_04_2013_web.pdf

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Make Up Work

Hey there,

 If you have not done an Antarctic Animal Poster

• Please choose an animal that lives in the Antarctic, find information about what it eats and what eats it (food-web connections). 
• Make a poster, include pictures, and come talk to me about one last part of the assignment (biological adaptations). Actually, come talk to me from the start.  

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If you didn't make a prezi, you will need to choose a focus for your Antarctic Timeline presentation-- it could be some kind of technology (vehicles, scientific tools, communications, transportation, buildings) or any span of time.

• You will need to show five specific events (things that happened) on your timeline and include images. 
• Check out my prezi: http://prezi.com/rltsiju_a2yy/?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=copy&rc=ex0share
• Here's another link to a cool timeline: http://www.discoveringantarctica.org.uk/multimedia/flash/13/timeline/timeline.html

Amundsen-Scott Photos

I posted an album of photos that my friend Michael Longueira has from his summer at Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station. Michael took some of them himself and he nabbed the rest off of a hard drive at the station. http://s1172.photobucket.com/user/AnaBen/library/Amundsen-Scott%20Summer

Extreme Design Assignments

Hey! Here's what needs to get done on Monday Nov. 4th-

1- Everyone, please email me your prezi to ambenson@unm.edu

2- Update your weather log posters.

3- Put your finished Antarctic Animal Poster up on the wall.

4- Choose five (5) videos from the links posted below, watch them, and make a comment about 2-3 of the videos.

Have a great day-- be kind to Mr Medina and I'll see you tomorrow!

Videos

Choose a couple of these videos to watch and comment on them below:

What's below the tip of the iceberg? - Camille Seaman | TED-Ed

Deep Lake Antarctica: Studying the hardy microbes that lived cut off for 3,500 years.

▶ Subsurface Antarctic Lake Filled with Life - YouTube

▶ What's Really Going on in Antarctic Lake Vostok? - YouTube

Micro-sub Explores Buried Antarctic Lake Whillans | Video | Space.com

▶ Antarctica Science, Lake Vostok Drilling, Biology, The Big Bang - YouTube

Video - Land Unseen: What's Beneath Antarctica's Ice? - The Atlantic

Paul Nicklen: Tales of ice-bound wonderlands | Video on TED.com

The weather in Antarctica, live from the Drake Passage near the convergence. - YouTube

▶ Bill Nye The Science Guy on Ocean Currents (oceanography (Full Clip) - YouTube

▶ New sea life found in Antarctica's 'lost world' deep under the Southern Ocean - YouTube

▶ NASA: The Thermohaline Circulation (The Great Ocean Conveyor Belt) [720p] - YouTube

Enjoy

U.S./Antarctic Visual

This gave me a good point of reference for comparison and comprehension.

The image is from http://blog.usa.gov/image/4583873736 retrieved 10/27/2013

One reason Antarctica is important to us:

The scientists in Antarctica are on the frontlines of trying to understand our planet. The continent is relatively untouched by humans and is therefore the best place to learn what the planet is like without human contamination. They are studying climate change, whale brains and the Big Bang. In this vast icy place that has been called a "wasteland", we are beginning to understand how the universe came into being and what Earth's chances are for a future.

http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2013/04/2013416123436877504.html - retrieved 10/26/13

Welcome!

I am going to use this space to post resources for my students during the Antarctica portion of Rob Shauger's Extreme Biomes Project at ACE Leadership H.S. the Fall trimester of 2013.

Here is my first batch of links:
Classroom Antarctica - a huge website with information about the continent, antarctic history, living and working there, climate and ecology, as well as international law and future care of the immense global force that Antarctica presents.

Antarctic Glaciers - Glaciers and Climate

http://www.nzaht.org/AHT/antarctic-photos/ - Photo Albums of Historic and Modern Images.


SCAR (Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research) » Antarctic Science News

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