Joides Research Vessel
**UPDATE – Feb 23 , 2010**
We hope you can join us for
“Come Explore the JOIDES Resolution…a research vessel on its way to Antarctica!”
Description: Join us for a chance to talk to scientists and other crew members via interactive videoconferencing on the amazing 470 foot long ocean drilling research vessel JOIDES Resolution (JR). You will be able to see and talk to an international group of marine geologists and technicians LIVE while they are out at sea, learn what they are researching, and get a peek at the research vessel that has been so important to increasing our understanding of the seafloor, plate tectonics, and past climate change. This exciting event will take place on February 24th for 3rd – 6th grade students.
Date: February 24th
Time: 1:00 – 1:50 PM for 3rd – 5th grade students
2:00 – 2:50 PM for 6th – 8th grade students
Cost: FREE to Edlink 12 Members!
Interaction: Most sites will be “view only”
UPDATED – ADDED RESOURCES: TETN Link
These are GREAT resources for you to use with your students. If necessary, adapt them for your grade level.
Teachers: Please read these short bios to your students sometime before tomorrow’s connection. The presenters are very excited about this program.
Stephanie Carr
Hi! I come to the JOIDES Resolution for the Colorado School of Mines.
I’m a few years into my PhD program, with a few more to go. I’m sailing as THE Microbiologist (one and only). I’m so excited to have the chance to go where few have gone before. This is my first cruise and the trip has been unbelievable. As far as science goes, I’m hoping to learn about what kind of organisms are living in the marine sediments off the coast of Antarctica, with a particular interest in how these organisms are participating in the carbon cycle. I’ve been lucky to get some great samples while out here. When I’m not away at sea, I like to spend my free time with my family and friends. I love riding my bike up and down the hills of Colorado, hiking, camping and snow shoeing too. I’m originally from the state of Maine, and I love going back to visit every chance I get.
Cheers,
Stephanie
Dr. Steve Pekar
Hello from Antarctica! This is Dr. Steve Pekar, and I am a geology professor at Queens College in New York City. I have been trying to figure out past climate changes when the Earth was much warmer than today (45- 16 million years ago). During these times, carbon dioxide (a greenhouse gas) was as high as what is predicted for this century.
Carbon dioxide is rising
rapidly today, which like putting our climate on a ³hot plate². So exploring these times for me is like ³Looking Back to Our Future².
To explore climate changes of the past, I look at sediments, fossils, and the chemistry of the fossils obtained from cores obtained from near the shore to deep-sea places ranging from the tropics to Antarctica. My research has taken me on expeditions around the world, including three to Antarctica, one of which I was project leader. Right now, I am on my fourth Antarctic expedition, in which I am a member of a scientific team to recover Antarctic sediments deposited when Antarctica was ice-free as part of the Integrated Drilling Program Expedition 318: Wilkes Land.
