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|  | | Stories from A Changing Planet Join the fun as POLAR-PALOOZA
comes to Salt Lake City, Utah
April 18 and 19, 2008 Stories from a Changing Planet
Live Presentation
Friday, April 18 7:00 p.m.
The City Library
210 East 400 South, Salt Lake City Offered FREE to the public on a first-come, first-served basis. Earth Day Extravaganza
featuring POLAR-PALOOZA
Saturday, April 19
10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
At the Utah Museum of Natural History
1390 E. Presidents Circle, SLC
| Other activities include:
- Free Educator Workshop at the Salt Lake Center for Science Education on Friday, April 18
- Scientist in the Classroom school visit on Friday, April 18
- Brown-bag lectures on Thursday, April 17 at 12 pm: Sean Topkok at UMNH (room 319); Kathy Licht and Julie Brigham-Grette at the Geology & Geophysics Department (110 INSCC)
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| What is POLAR-PALOOZA? | | POLAR-PALOOZA (PPZA) is a public education and outreach project supported by the National Science Foundation and NASA to bring information and insights about the Poles to large public audiences across America through a national science center and museum tour called Stories from a Changing Planet, accompanied by teacher workshops, media appearances, and more. In "Stories…”, a team of five scientists and Arctic residents tell personal stories of life and research in polar regions, supported by dramatic High Definition video footage and Internet resources. POLAR-PALOOZA seeks to inspire diverse audiences across America to better appreciate the many ways the rapidly changing Arctic and Antarctic affect the health and functioning of the entire Earth system, no matter where we live. | |  |
| Where can I get more information? | | | | |  | | | | | Who is POLAR-PALOOZA Bringing to Salt Lake City? | | | | | Julie Brigham-Grette
Dr. Brigham-Grette is a professor of Geoscience at U-Mass, Amherst . She has been conducting research in the Arctic for nearly 29 years, including eight field seasons in remote parts of northeast Russia since 1991, participating in both the science program, as well as dealing with difficult logistics.
Her research interests and experience span the broad spectrum of arctic marine and terrestrial paleoclimate records dealing with the Late Cenozoic to recent evolution of the Arctic climate, especially in the Bering Strait region. | |  |
| George DivokyGeorge Divoky is a biologist who for 30 years has been studying how climate affects the breeding habits of birds in the Arctic. Check out this New York Times Magazine article about his work! George is founder of the “Friends of Cooper Island ” and serves as its director in collaboration with a governing board. George has been studying seabirds in arctic Alaska since 1970 and holds a Ph.D. from the University of Alaska Fairbanks, where he is a Research Associate at the Institute of Arctic Biology.
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| Kathy LichtKathy Licht is an Associate Professor of Earth Sciences at Indiana University-Purdue University in Indianapolis. She has recently completed her third trip to Antarctica to study the history and effects of glaciers on the landscape and climate system. She first became interested in glacial geology as a graduate student at the University of Colorado, Boulder, where she received her doctorate in 1999. “One of my main research interests is examining change in the Antarctic ice sheet over time. Antarctica represents the biggest unknown in predicting global sea level rise. Constraining the magnitude of the Antarctic ice sheet’s future response to changing climate and rising sea level depend, on a large extent, to improving our knowledge and understanding of ice dynamics during the last glacial minimum (approx. 18,000 years ago.)”
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| Atsu MotoAtsuhiro (“Atsu”) Muto is a Ph.D. student in the Geography department at the University of Colorado at Boulder, under the guidance of Dr. Ted Scambos and Dr. Konrad Steffen In preparation for his work on the Norwegian-US Scientific Traverse of East Antarctica , he tested his self-designed and built weather stations at Summit Station, Greenland, in Spring 2007. On the Traverse, he is responsible for firn temperature profile measurements and aims to write his Ph.D. thesis on surface temperature reconstruction using data obtained during traverses. Atsu appears in several POLAR-PALOOZA podcasts where you can see his enthusiasm for science and sharing his adventures.
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| Sean TopkokSean Topkok is Indigenous Curriculum Specialist with the Alaska Native Knowledge Network. Sean worked with ARCUS from 1997 to 2005. Though currently employed as Information Systems Professional with the University of Alaska Fairbanks, he continues to be closely associated with ARCUS on various educational programs. Sean can usually be found working to maintain the Alaska Native Knowledge Network website, or helping rural communities document cultural knowledge with Cultural Atlases. When not identifying, cataloguing, and distributing Indigenous curriculum materials, Sean may be found spending time with his wife Amy and their three sons Christopher, Aaron, and Joseph.
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