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Laura Dunbar posted on the forum topic Ross Sea Press Release in the group Ross Sea Connection: 13 years, 9 months ago
I’m having 4 different classes follow the blogs (5th, 6th, 7th, and 8th). We check in daily with a quick update, and then when I can schedule the mobile computer cart, the students read through the blogs on their own. I’ve been doing the labs with only one class (7th) ~ that’s the class that […]
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Laura Dunbar posted on the forum topic Slideshow to Josh Kohut’s interview in the group Ross Sea Connection: 13 years, 9 months ago
Oh no! The pressure, the pressure! I forgot that I gave them the warm-up “If you could talk to your favorite quarterback for 10 minutes ~ what would you ask him?” For some reason that helped them understand a little better. They are so excited when their question gets answered!
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Laura Dunbar posted on the forum topic Slideshow to Josh Kohut’s interview in the group Ross Sea Connection: 13 years, 9 months ago
Hi Claire, Thanks for the idea for the Cartesian divers… it sounds like you had them thinking and having fun! I’ve had my fair share of questions ~ my rule of thumb to my students is “if you can google it, then don’t ask it…” I do a lot of modeling about what makes a […]
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Laura Dunbar posted on the forum topic Slideshow to Josh Kohut’s interview in the group Ross Sea Connection: 13 years, 9 months ago
Hi Donna, Thanks! I haven’t run any of the lessons yet with my students. If you have already, and know of any tweaks or improvements, or even something I should say during the directions to help the students better understand, would you mind posting them? We’re having so much fun! I hope you all are […]
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Sage Lichtenwalner wrote a new blog post How Scientists Look for the Truth in the group Ross Sea Connection: 13 years, 9 months ago
Today I toured around the work stations of each of the scientists studying Modified Circumpolar Deep Water: Drs. Josh Kohut, Chris Measures, Phoebe Lam, Angelicque White, Allen Milligan, and Adam Kustka. They’re all here because they have a hypothesis about how MCDW contributes to the summer blooms of phytoplankton that provide so much food to […]
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Laura Dunbar posted on the forum topic Slideshow to Josh Kohut’s interview in the group Ross Sea Connection: 13 years, 9 months ago
Claire,
I’m so glad you could use it! Thanks for letting me know…. it makes the time I spent putting it together seem more worthwhile. ~ Laura -
Sage Lichtenwalner posted on the forum topic Live Blogging in the group Ross Sea Connection: 13 years, 9 months ago
Hi Laura, good question. If the questions are relevant to a particular day’s post, they can be added to the comments section of that post. Other questions can be submitted using the Questions link at the top of the page. Those will be the first places I check when I gather up all the questions […]
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Sage Lichtenwalner posted on the forum topic My wife is coming home fron the Oden in the group Ross Sea Connection: 13 years, 9 months ago
Hi Scott, that’s great to hear. In fact, I was just on her blog site a few minutes ago. For anyone who’s curious, you can check it out at the following link.
http://www.polartrec.com/expeditions/oden-antarctic-expedition-2010I wonder how much she enjoyed having all that Swedish food for over a month 😉
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scott sperber started the forum topic My wife is coming home fron the Oden in the group Ross Sea Connection: 13 years, 9 months ago
So my wife, Anne Marie Wotkyns, is coming home this week from 7 weeks on the Swedish Ice Breaker Oden. This ship has opened the path for the R/V Palmer. I cant wait to bring our two experiences together.
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Laura Dunbar started the forum topic Slideshow to Josh Kohut’s interview in the group Ross Sea Connection: 13 years, 9 months ago
Hi, I put some pictures to Josh Kohut’s interview to give my students a better understanding of what they were listening to. I showed my 5th – 8th graders today, and they seemed to like it. For some reason my school filter won’t let me post it to the documents part of this group, so […]
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Laura Dunbar posted on the forum topic Live Blogging in the group Ross Sea Connection: 13 years, 9 months ago
Thanks Sage! What place it the best to send questions to them? Facebook? On the Ross Sea Connection blog comment area? Here?
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Sage Lichtenwalner started the forum topic Live Blogging in the group Ross Sea Connection: 13 years, 9 months ago
Live blogging from the southern hemisphere has commenced!!! Be sure to check out the first post by Hugh and Chris Sights and Sounds of Summer in the South . Also, to help you and your students (and anyone else you know who’s interested) follow along, we’ve created RU COOL Facebook and Twitter pages which you can befriend. We’ll send […]
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Laura Dunbar posted on the forum topic Climate Change Talk at Rutgers University in the group Climate Change Education: 13 years, 9 months ago
Janice, Thanks so much for posting this ~ I would have loved to come, but our middle school science fair is scheduled for that SAME day (and we have an evening event for the parents to see the projects).
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Sage Lichtenwalner wrote a new post on the site COSEE NOW 13 years, 9 months ago
It’s a new year, and there’s a lot to get excited about NOW. Ross Sea Connection This month, COSEE NOW partner scientist Dr. Josh Kohut will be leading a research cruise to the Ross Sea. And we’re thrilled that he’s included Chris Linder, a renowned environmental photographer, and Hugh Powell, an experienced science writer, on the mission. Hugh […]
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Janice McDonnell started the forum topic Climate Change Talk at Rutgers University in the group Climate Change Education: 13 years, 9 months ago
Susan Solomon, senior scientist at NOAA, who will be presenting “A World of Change: Climate Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow.” Here is the link to the website and registration page. Please feel free to share this with anyone you think would be interested in attending. The reception begins at 6 and the lecture begins at 6:30. […]
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Laura Dunbar started the forum topic Grant Money Available for those of you in the Barnegat Bay Watershed in the group MARE: 13 years, 9 months ago
I’ve attached the address of a grant application (sorry it’s so long). This came across my desk from Mary Judge at the Barnegat Bay Partnership. I understand that not many people apply, so teachers often get their projects funded through them.…[Read more]
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Laura Dunbar posted on the forum topic Blog topics – Sound off! in the group Ross Sea Connection: 13 years, 9 months ago
Hi Hugh, Thanks for such a great introduction! It sounds like you’re going to have an interesting trip ~ and I’m so excited that we get to tag along. My students and I look forward to your posts. We are smack in the middle of the section of the Northeast that got buried under snow […]
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Sage Lichtenwalner started the forum topic Ross Sea Press Release in the group Ross Sea Connection: 13 years, 9 months ago
I know many of you like to notify your local media outlets when you do cool things. So, if you’re looking for some help, you can check out this research highlight put out by Rutgers University Relations. http://news.rutgers.edu/medrel/research/to-the-bottom-of-the-20101213/antarctica-in-the-cl-20101214 Please keep us informed of the cool things…[Read more]
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milagros and Donna Matlosz are now friends 13 years, 10 months ago
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scott sperber and Donna Matlosz are now friends 13 years, 10 months ago
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Hi Laura, Claire, and “friends”!
The students and I have been so busy keeping up with the blogs from the scientists that I did not have time to write back sooner. Cherri Worth and I have done the water mass lab, cartesian diver lab, and we looked at phytoplankton and algae under microscopes. Our students loved making the cartesian divers. We…[Read more]