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Teachers involved with ALISON at PFRR and Aurora Pond

Marge Porter

Each winter of the study we have been visited by Marge Porter , a high school biology and environmental science teacher from Connecticut. She taught at Woodstock Academy for 23 years until 2002, when she moved to Somers High School. Marge Porter measures the ice thickness at 35.8 Mile Pond, Old Steese Highway, March 2000. Marge went to Antarctica with Martin and Kim in 1994 under the auspices of the Teachers Experiencing Antarctica and the Arctic (TEA) program sponsored by the National Science Foundation.

In addition to participating in the Poker Flat study and working with Fairbanks teachers, Marge has [1] used Antarctic sea ice data in the classroom, [2] encouraged her students to communicate by e-mail with Martin when he has been in the Antarctic pack ice aboard the research vessel Nathaniel B. Palmer, and [3] taken her students out into the school grounds to measure snow depth and temperature, determine snow density and calculate the conductive heat flow through the snow.

In February 2005, Marge brought seven of her students to Fairbanks during spring break. See the journals that her students kept by clicking here.