Shakira
Brown-Petit traveled to and worked at a remote Antarctic field
camp called Offshore New Harbor as an educator with Dr. Stephen
Pekar's Offshore
New Harbor Expedition. The Offshore New Harbor team conducted
seismic and gravity surveys as part of an effort to study
Antarctica's distant past. The goal of the Offshore New Harbor
(ONH) Project is to study sediments deposited in Antarctica
during the
Greenhouse World. The team lived and worked on the sea
ice in tents for approximately 35 to 40 days. It is from this
extremely remote location that Shakira Brown-Petit did webcasts
and video conferencing to teach students about what the team
is learning from their work as part of the ARISE program (ANDRILL
Research Immersion for Science Educators). More information
on Antarctica's past transition from "Greenhouse World"
to "Icehouse World" can be found
here.
The
Offshore New Harbor project is a program of
ANDRILL (ANtarctic geological DRILLing). As described
on their website, ANDRILL is "a multinational collaboration
comprised of more than 200 scientists, students, and educators
from five nations (Germany, Italy, New Zealand, the United
Kingdom and the United States) to recover stratigraphic records
from the Antarctic margin using Cape Roberts Project (CRP)
technology. The chief objective is to drill back in time to
recover a history of paleoenvironmental changes that will
guide our understanding of how fast, how large, and how frequent
were glacial and interglacial changes in the Antarctica region."
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