This summer, Alejandra Martinez of Memorial Junior High spent 5 weeks in the Arctic with a team of researchers studying the affect of climate change on vegetation of the Tundra.
She took along the class mascot, SloMo, and they spent two weeks in Barrow, Alaska, the most norther point in the United States, studying the phenology of plants and how a warming climate affects their life cycle.
She then spent three weeks at Toolik Field Research Station helping run a tram system that records vegetation changes in the Tundra. The scientist she worked with, Dr. Jeremy May, will be visiting her class and meeting all her students later this year.
Wednesday, September 11th, she released the websites where you can read all about her expedition.
https://www.polartrec.com/expeditions/phenology-and-vegetation-in-the-warming-arctic-2019.
Miss Martinez encourages teachers to apply to be a PolarTREC educator.
Applications are open now and are due October 7th (https://www.polartrec.com/about/application?fbclid=IwAR3DDQz69-w5k7q605naw1L8VIHMIFP4AEf9J6pSVNMyV90bYBx8HBowX90).
-Submitted by: A. Martinez
