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Esatkuat Lagoon (2008-2009)
This year all eighth grade students in Deborah Greene’s Science and Math classes are collecting an assortment of data on the environment. A component to understanding the local climate, all students are learning how to collect snow and ice data for their ALISON site on Esatkuat Lagoon located directly behind the middle school. After all students are exposed to the measurement process, students with a high interest level in this particular study will collect the data weekly throughout the freeze-up and thaw cycles during the 2008-2009 school year. Prior to Freeze-up Students spend time learning the protocol for setting up the site in a "dry land" training session:
Students walking out behind the school to the lakeside to practice setting up and measuring the transect prior to freeze-up.
James measuring out the “transect’ on dry land next to the lake in September.
Students measuring and marking distance between stakes during the “dry-land training” session.
Dorcas records measurements along our land transect.
Students examine and practice reading probes.
Donald shows off the digital thermometer as he learns to use it.
Imikpuk Lake
(2002-2006)
The observatory at Imikpuk Lake was run by Tim Buckley of Barrow High School, from 2002-2006. He was assisted by his freshman general science class in this effort.
Tim is originally from Montana and has lived in Barrow for ten years. Prior to that he served in the Peace Corps in Botswana. Tim’s professional development experiences include two cruises in the Arctic Ocean in 1996 and 1998 to study sea ice with Dr. Deb Meese of the Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory, Hanover, NH. His participation in the 1998 cruise was under the auspices of Teachers Experiencing Antarctica and the Arctic. Tim also participates in the Alaska GLOBE Program.
Tim Buckley and his students from Barrow High School
taking part in ALISON, Winter 2002-03.
Students making measurements at Imikpuk Lake, December 2002.
