Earth to Class

Other Resources

Mystery Novel set in Antarctica:
     Sarah Andrews In Cold Pursuit
     St. Martin's Press.
     Hardback ISBN 0312342535; Paperback ISBN 0312342535

Sarah Andrews is well known for her popular mystery series featuring forensic geologist Em Hansen.
With In Cold Pursuit, she builds on that foundation and introduces a new lead character in this compelling
mystery from the last continent.

Valena Walker is a dedicated master's student in geology headed to Antarctica to study glaciology with
the venerable Dr. Emmett Vanderzee. Being on the ice is something she's dreamed about since she was
a little girl. But when she finally arrives at McMurdo, she discovers that her professor has been arrested
for murder, and what's more, that the incident happened a year ago. A newspaper reporter who'd visited
Antarctica the previous winter had died from exposure, and though no one was a fan of the guy---he was
attempting to contradict Vanderzee's research---by all accounts, everyone was devastated to lose someone
on the ice.
Valena quickly realizes that in order to avoid being shipped north immediately and having her grant canceled,
she must embrace the role of detective and work to clear his name---and save herself in the process.
Sarah Andrews received a prestigious grant from the National Science Foundation to spend two months
on Antarctica to research In Cold Pursuit, and the authenticity of her portrait of this unforgiving land is
breathtaking, making for her most compelling novel to date.

--http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/a/sarah-andrews/in-cold-pursuit.htm

West Antarctica Ice Sheet Airborne Gravimetry:
http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/res/pi/WAIS/

"INTERNATIONAL POLAR YEAR (IPY) 2007 - 2008"
     Home: http://www.ipy.org/
     About: http://www.ipy.org/about/what-is-ipy.htm
     History of IPY: http://www.ipy.org/development/history.htm
     Links to IPY sponsors and other polar organizations:
            http://www.ipy.org/links/

Teachers' Domain Polar Sciences Collection: http://www.teachersdomain.org/exhibits/ipy07-ex/index.html

"Teachers Experiencing Antarctica and the Arctic"
     TEA ARMADA PROJECT:
            http://tea.armadaproject.org/index.html
     Meet the Teachers:
            http://tea.armadaproject.org/tea_meetteachers.html
     TEA Classroom Activities:
        http://tea.armadaproject.org/tea_classroommaterials.html
     TEA Polar Links:
        http://tea.armadaproject.org/tea_sites_antarcticresearch.html

"A Tour of the Cryosphere: The Earth's Frozen Assets"
http://www.nasa.gov/vision/earth/environment/cryosphere.html
8-minute DVD/web multimedia program about the polar regions,
with amazing imagery; close-captions available.

Robert Swan's Leadership on the Edge 2041
     http://www.2041.com/
   Inspire Antarctic Expeditions:
     http://www.2041.com/expeditions/IAE.html

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
"Antarctica: Lake Vostok"

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Cryosphere Sciences Branch
http://neptune.gsfc.nasa.gov/csb/
The Cryospheric Sciences Branch is a branch of the
Hydrospheric and Biospheric Sciences Laboratory located at
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.
The mission of the Cryospheric Sciences Branch (CSB) is to
increase our understanding of the ice cover.

NASA's ICESat (Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite)
http://icesat.gsfc.nasa.gov/
ICESat (Ice, Cloud,and land Elevation Satellite) is the
benchmark Earth Observing System mission for measuring ice
sheet mass balance, cloud and aerosol heights, as well as land
topography and vegetation characteristics.

National Snow and Ice Data Center
http://www.nsidc.com/
Established by NOAA as a national information and referral
center in support of polar and cryospheric research, NSIDC archives
and distributes digital and analog snow and ice data.

"The Crysophere: Where the World Is Frozen"
http://www.nsidc.com/cryosphere/

NOAA Marine Modeling and Analysis Branch (MMAB) Sea Ice
http://polar.ncep.noaa.gov/seaice/
The Polar and Great Lakes Ice group works on sea ice analysis
from satellite, sea ice modeling, and ice-atmosphere-ocean coupling.

USGS IPY Resources
http://international.usgs.gov/ipy/default.shtml

"Snowball Earth":
    Some 600 - 700 million years ago, according to some data, much of
Earth was covered by ice. Here are selected links to online resources about this theory:

     http://www.snowballearth.org/

     http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/horizon/2000/snowballearth.shtml

http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewnews.html?id=149

http://www.eps.harvard.edu/people/faculty/hoffman/snowball_paper.html

"Polar Oral History Program"
http://library.osu.edu/sites/archives/polar/oralhist/oralmain.php

"Polar Remote Sensing" -- Anupma Prakash and Rudi Gens, UAF
http://www.polar-remotesensing.alaska.edu/index.html