Science Education Project
Polar Discovery
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
First Interactive Expedition Begins: Wednesday, 18 April 2007
For further information, please go to:
http://polardiscovery.whoi.edu
or contact:
Chris Linder
Phone: 508-289-2802
E-mail: clinder [at] whoi.edu
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), in partnership with eight
museums across the United States, announces "Polar Discovery," an
interactive project that brings the excitement of polar research and
discovery to students, teachers, museum visitors, and Internet users.
Funded by the National Science Foundation as part of the International
Polar Year, the science education and outreach project brings together
science centers and natural history museums, world-class oceanographic
researchers working in the Arctic and Antarctic, and creative multimedia
talent.
The project website offers photo essays, videos, animations, audio
clips, and a forum for e-mailing questions directly to researchers at
the poles, and is available at:
http://polardiscovery.whoi.edu
In addition, the eight partner museums have developed interactive and
media-rich exhibits related to polar expeditions and will host public
events centered around live satellite calls from researchers in the
field to museum visitors. The first in a series of these interactive
sessions is an expedition to the North Pole Environmental Observatory,
where researchers will deploy instruments that will make year-round
observations of the layers of water beneath the arctic ice cap.
Museum partners include the Museum of Science, Boston; Liberty Science
Center, Jersey City; Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh;
Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC; Houston
Museum of Natural Science; The Field Museum, Chicago; Birch Aquarium at
Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA; and Pacific Science
Center, Seattle.
For further information, please go to:
http://polardiscovery.whoi.edu