Polar science used to be dominated by men. An expedition to Thwaites Glacier is helping change that. Read more about UMaine first-year master’s student Meghan Spoth and the other women aboard the Nathaniel B. Palmer who are changing the landscape of Antarctic research in Elizabeth Rush’s National Geographic article.
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Several media outlets are posting information from researchers aboard the Nathaniel B. Palmer. Learn more about the ship’s mission to study Antarctica’s massive Thwaites Glacier: Antarctica Dispatch 7: Under Thwaites Glacier, PRI’s The World Blogs and Writing, The International Thwaites Glacier Collaboration THWAITEing….At Rothera Station, Thwaites Glacier Offshore Research (THOR)
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Follow researcher Meghan Spoth, a first-year master’s student at the University of Maine, who is studying how climate change affects glaciers today and how glaciers have changed in the past. She is going into the field to study Thwaites Glacier in Antarctica then Mt Usborne on East Falkland Island!
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Anna McGinn is headed to her fifth international climate change meeting
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Teachers, students and the public are invited to follow two graduate students from the University of Maine Climate Change Institute on their expedition to Katowice, Poland in the fifth Follow a Researcher® expedition, “From UMaine to the UN: Climate Science and Policy,” Nov. 5–Dec. 21. Anna McGinn and Will Kochtitzky are traveling to COP24, the […]
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The University of Maine Cooperative Extension’s interactive Follow a Researcher® program connects youth with graduate students conducting fieldwork in remote locations around the world. As the program has grown, so has the audience. Classrooms across New England and beyond followed University of Maine graduate student Charles Rodda on his research trip to Peru, UMaine graduate […]
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United States Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture (USDA NIFA) posted a blog about Follow a Researcher®, written by guest author Dr. Lisa Phelps, Program Administrator with University of Maine Cooperative Extension. Read the post at 4-H invites students to tag along on Antarctic expedition.
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By Dr. Lisa Phelps, Program Administrator with University of Maine Cooperative Extension A unique program in Maine is giving teachers around the country the opportunity to let their students tag along with a researcher in the field. The program shows K-12 students the real-life scientific journeys that a STEM-rich (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) education […]
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