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Home | The Mission of LTER Education is to use the uniqueness of the LTER Network to promote learning about long-term ecological processes and the earth's ecosystems. MCM actively engages school groups and the public regularly and through a variety of ways. 2013/14 Outreach ActivitiesAlex Mass met with a number of classrooms grade 4-8 in the Denver regional area before departing for Antarctica this November. Now in the field, her skype calls have been able to reach classrooms from Colorado to Australia and her field blog, The Last Degrees has been featured on Rocky Mountain PBS. Alex will continue her interaction with schools throughout the next year and devise a learning assessment to analyze how following a single researcher throughout a fieldseason affects the accessibility younger students feel towards STEM careers. Alex has collaborated with the University of Colorado Office of University Outreach and has been awarded the Chancellor's Award for Excellence in STEM Education for these outreach activities. Adrian Howkins has been expanding the success of the LTER Schoolyard Book Series children's book about scientists in the Dry Valleys, "The Lost Seal", with activities in South American schools. Artwork contributed by students during Adrian's visits to Argentina and Chile will be included in the upcoming Spanish language and bilingual edition of "The Lost Seal". In addition, this season Adrian is in the Dry Valleys, retracing the steps of early explorers in the Taylor Valley in order to communicate this historical experience to students in the United States. Current Field Blogs
Past Outreach ActivitiesOregon Public Broadcasting,Think Out Loud (Radio). Glacier change. March 2012. Landscape changes in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Harbingers of things to come? May 2012. Antarctic Seminar Series, Portland State University. History of glacier exploration and the role of small glaciers in Sea Level Rise. March 2012. Climate Trust, Portland OR. The Priscu Lab has continued to provide opportunities for training and development in microbiology to high school students over the past year. The Lost Seal
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Nov 2013
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