Dear Science Teachers and Principals,
Thank you for supporting our program. Hopefully, you have great new semester starting now! We had a great summer filed season and trying to back village trips.
Here is a recent update of our program:
1. Google Earth KMZ file is updated and available (attached) to download from
our web site (www.uaf.edu/permafrost). This is the frame work for our
all monitoring station information under Geographical Information
System (GIS).
2. “Tunnel Man” episode 4 (geomorphology- somewhere over the rainbow-) is on the web (www.uaf.edu/permafrost for high resolution). This will explain several permafrost features and periglacial geomorphology.
During my music survey in the villages, many of the students like rap
(e.g. Episode 2), we will return to rap for this episode!
Address for YOUTUBE:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rjKhxxiDgY
Address for TeacherTube (most of school is not block this site!):
http://teachertube.com/viewVideo.php?video_id=125823&title=Tunnel_Man_Episode_4&vpkey=
3. The ice cellar monitoring program that measures temperature of native ice cellars in the permafrost. We did set up data loggers all of the whaling villages: Kaktovik, Barrow, Nuiqsut, Wainwright, Pt. Lay, Gambell, Savoonga, Wales and Pt. Hope. This will be a great corroboration of our activities with that of the local communities. If your village has a cellar, or is using any permafrost related storage in the ground, let me know.
4. During summer season, Ricky (Husky pilot) was visit most of the
villages to download data, replace battery, maintain site etc. You do not need maintain datalogger following villages:
Circle, Ft. Yukon, Eagle (safe logger above flooding!), Venetie, Chalkyittik, Unalakleet, Shaktoolik, Koyuk, Elim, Golovin, Teller, Brevig Mission, Wales, Shishmaref, St.Micheal, Stebbins, Kotlik, Emmonak,St.Mary’s, Russian Mission, Marshall, Holy Cross, Anvik, Grayling, Shageluk, Aniak, Kalskag, Taktna, McGrath, Nikolai, Kivalina, Barrow, Wainwright, Nuiqsut, Noatak, Selawik, Buckland, Noorvik, Kiana, Ambler, Shegunuk, Huslia, Allakaket, Tanana, Beaver
We will keep visiting other villages (LKSD etc.) to maintain logger too. You will able to access temperature data at these villages soon.
5. I will be going to Kilimanjaro, the tallest mountain in all of Africa this week until October 5 to drill summit permafrost. All of the Teachers and Students are invited to interact with us via e-mail while on the mountain. The Team will answer questions about our research as well as our experiences climbing the tallest free standing mountain on earth. Visit the Xpedition’s web page (www.xpeditiononline.com) to gain access to and learn more about the GLOBE Seasons & Biomes Project and Protocols, as well as the science being conducted on the mountain. Follow the action of this walking classroom on the Xpedition Journal and experience the Beauty of Africa through the eyes of GLOBE’s young explorers on the Xpedition’s Members page.
6. For frost tube schools, it is time for maximum active layer now. If you have a chance to check frost tube, you will see how far the ground thawed (e.g. maximum active layer). This will be great information for science classes and the local communities!
Again, thank you for your participants.
Have a nice new semester!
Kenji
Kenji Yoshikawa
Water and Environmental Research Center
Institute of Northern Engineering
University of Alaska Fairbanks
PO Box 755860 Fairbanks Alaska 99775-5860
Phone & Fax 907-474-6090
E-mail ffky@uaf.edu
http://www.uaf.edu/permafrost
skype: kenji.yoshikawa
(See attached file: permafrostnet.kmz)