In October, the ARM Education team met with several teachers and school administrators to reestablish a working relationship and to determine how to best enhance the existing ARM education outreach programs for the North Slope. Some of the current issues that the North Slope Borough School District is facing were discussed during these conversations. According…

Members of the ARM Education team attended the 2003 ARM Science Team Meeting. Fairley Barnes, Carrie Talus, Mike Ebinger, and Jeff Berger (of Yaza Design) participated in this year’s meeting. They presented a poster entitled “Traditional Ecological Knowledge as a Tool for Science Education and Public Outreach” (PowerPoint file) and the latest version of the…

While on the North Slope in November 2002, ARM Education staff Carrie Talus and Laura Marsh held a meeting with the North Slope Borough School District’s Science Committee, headed by Jodi Picou, in order to discuss adding the subject of climate change to the North Slope science standards. This science committee is working to update…

Teacher measuring temperature as a part of the “Arctic Microclimates” Lesson. ARM file photo. Carrie Talus telling the participating teachers about the ARM Project and the ARM Education Program. ARM file photo. Laura Marsh and Carrie Talus of ARM Education recently presented teachers’ workshops in basic climate change science at three schools in the North…

The ARM Education team has recently completed writing a proposal to the National Science Foundation (NSF) International Digital Library (IDL) Program. This proposal titled, "An International Digital Library for Atmospheric Visualization" is a collaboration between the ARM Education Program at Los Alamos National Laboratory, Christopher Klaus at Argonne National Laboratory, Keith Andrew at Eastern Illinois…