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1 Live from IPY! with Maggie Prevenas & Robyn Staup 3 May 2007 Aboard the USCGC Healy in the Bering Sea

2 Raise your hand to ask a question Slides will be shown here List of all participants Return to the Lobby or Exit Chat with one person or the entire group

3 What is PolarTREC? PolarTREC is a professional development experience in which K-12 teachers are paired with researchers in authentic polar research experiences. In the next three years 36 teachers from around the United States will join scientists in the Arctic and Antarctic in celebration of the International Polar Year!

4 The PolarTREC Team Wendy Warnick PolarTREC PI Executive Director Helen Wiggins Program Coordinator Janet Warburton PolarTREC Project Manager Katie Breen PolarTREC Project Manager Kristin Fischer PolarTREC Project Assistant Ronnie Owens Web Developer Ben Wade Web Developer Tina Buxbaum Electronic Media Project Manager Zeb Polly Systems Administrator Joed Polly Video Production with help from the entire staff at ARCUS

5 Who are we talking with today? PolarTREC & NOAA Teacher at Sea Teacher Maggie Prevenas Kalama Intermediate School Hawaii PolarTREC Science Educator Robyn Staup Boonshoft Museum of Discovery Ohio Captain Chief Scientist Researcher Researcher Graduate Student Ted Lindstrom USCGC Healy Ray Sambrotto Columbia University New York Kris Swenson Didier Burdloff Emily Davenport

6 Robyn Staup 2007 PolarTREC Teacher

7 Maggie Prevenas 2007 PolarTREC Teacher & NOAA Teacher at Sea

8 Emily Davenport Graduate Student

9 USCGC Healy Captain Ted Lindstrom

10 Chief Scientist Dr. Ray Sambrotto Photo by: Jeff Napp

11 BEST- Bering Ecosystem Study Goal of the project: Conduct transects over the eastern Bering Sea to measure the productivity and health of the marine ecosystem. Dates: 7 April - 14 May 2007 Location: Aboard the US Coast Guard Cutter Healy, in the Bering Sea Josh London View of the Healy in sea ice from helicopter.

12 Where is the Bering Sea? Alaska Canada

13 Where is the USCGC Healy? BERING SEA Approximate Location of the USCGC Healy

14 Can you see the seasonal changes in sea-ice cover? Start of Expedition Present Bering Sea Russia Bering Sea Russia Alaska The yellow on this map is all ice! Alaska The yellow on this map is all ice! Canada Canada

15 Breaking Ice Ice Algae

16 Take a ride down to the ice... The Science: Seals Make a plan... Seals are hard to sneak up on... Baby-sitting the pup

17 Quick, get the samples! Mother and pup reunited...

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27 Collecting Water for Sampling

28 Incubator

29 The Lab

30 Lab Work

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48 The wild world of Mrs. P! And Kolohe the naughty monkey!

49 New friends Some new Friends!

50 Mrs. P s seal impersonation

51 Seal Research Seal Research

52 More Seal Research

53 Mrs. P Does her Homework Homework

54 St. George Visit St george

55 St george 2 St. George Island

56 St. Paul Island

57 Styrofoam Experiment Before After being 2700 meters deep in the Bering Sea!

58 The CTD Attaching the Cups Leon Recanati Institute for Maritime Studies

59 The Wildlife: Whales Reef Teach Minke Whale Brian J. Sherry Beluga Whale Humpback Whale NOAA View of beluga whales from the helicopter. Dave Withrow Grey Whale Orca or Killer Whale

60 The Wildlife: Other Sea Mammals Walrus Bearded Seal Ribbon Seal pup Univ. of Alaska Spotted Seal NOAA

61 The Wildlife: Polar Bears Polar Bear from the Healy in 2006 On Polar Bear Watch M. Cameron 2007 Polar Bear and kill spot viewed from Helicopter

62 Common Murre The Wildlife: Sea Birds Ivory Gull Spectacled Eider Herring Gull Northern Fulmar

63 The Wildlife: Fish Pacific Salmon Herring Gull Pollock Cod

64 The Wildlife: Zooplankton Bucket of Megalops Zooplankton Hydramedusae Calanus Arrow Worm Pteropod Krill

65 Berth (bedroom) Life onboard the USCGC Healy Pizza day! The ship s Movie Theatre Everyone has ship pagers

66 Safety on the USCGC Healy

67 Join us again next week! Thursday, May 10 at 10:30-11:30 a.m. Alaska Daylight Time Last Live from IPY! From the USCGC Healy! Laysan Albatross Photo by Gavin Brady

68 Thank You! Check out to see more pictures and keep posted on upcoming events! If you have further questions, please contact us at or call

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