Saturday Talk 3-15-2014

[Nok Acker]

Radford University’s Sea Ice Research and Educational Outreach, Part II

 

 

WHO:             Radford University Students              

WHEN:         Saturday, March 15, 2014, at 1:30 pm

 WHERE:      Barrow Arctic Research Center

(new science building)

 

ALL AGES WELCOME

Need a ride? A van will be in front of Cold Man Coffee at 12:45,

 Tuzzy Library at 1:00 pm, and the New Hospital at 1:15 to

take people to and from the presentation.

 

HOST:                  Nokinba Acker, BASC

      

          Radford University faculty and students have traveled to Barrow for a number of years to conduct geophysical studies of the sea ice. Our scientific goal on this trip is to investigate a possible correlation between the temperature of the surface of the sea ice and the thickness of the ice. We will discuss how our work last week guided our work in this second week—we learned from our failures! We will discuss the equipment that we are using this trip including a custom-made thermal sensor that measures the sea ice temperature, a capacitively coupled electrical resistivity array, a thermal imager, and an ice drill to ground-truth the resistivity data. We will also discuss our trip’s educational outreach. Our Science Education faculty member is working with a Radford University student teacher to connect a number of K-12 classrooms in Virginia and elsewhere to both our research as well as with the uniqueness of Barrow.

                  

                                      Brought to you by the Barrow Arctic Science Consortium

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For more information call Nokinba Acker at 852-4881 or email – nok....@arcticscience.org