Group items tagged

If you are looking for some great photos of the polar regions -- scientists working, great scenery, teachers in the field, maps, logos, etc...check out ARCUS' media site. Most of the photos are free to use as long as they are credited and used for non-commercial purposes

from the Post Carbon Institute: 'Ever wondered how to efficiently talk to folks who say we have PLENTY of fossil fuels to extract? Here's a highly informative piece. AlterNet's great Tara Lohan talks to Richard Heinberg about this and much more.'

"In a remarkable union of science and art, landscape painter Diane Burko shows how the planet's glaciers have changed form over the last century in her latest exhibit "Politics of Snow." To tell the story, Burko tracked down glaciologists from the US Geological Survey's National Snow and Ice Data Center at the University of Colorado, Boulder, and others. She then painted a series of photos for each mountain based on historic and present day photographs. Her collection demonstrates the changing face of glacial mountains across the world, including the Matterhorn in the Alps and Grinnell Glacier in Montana's Glacier National Park." The Scientist

Videos and related media

From the above site, select "outreach" and read the blog of this group of multi disciplinary undergrads, grad students, K-12 teachers, and university faculty's Dec 07/Jan 08 trip to Antarctica. The blog could make a good mini-text or primer about Antarctica research. Since the conclusion of the expedition, the site has expanded to include photos, bios, and much more (through the Navigation links)

An Antarctica expedition by the University of Alabama at Birmingham. The blogs are informative and the photos are great. The captions make them fun and very usable in the classroom

Older sites, still useful

Pan around the inside and outside of this historic site.