Summer Course for K-12 Teachers
Understanding the Role of Permafrost in a Rapidly Warming Climate
25-27 June 2008
University of Alaska Fairbanks
For further information, please go to:
http://www.nicop.org/courses.html
http://denali.iarc.uaf.edu/~saito/public/files/08_summer_school/summer_…
or contact:
Tohru Saito
E-mail: saito [at] iarc.uaf.edu
"Understanding the Role of Permafrost in a Rapidly Warming Climate" is a
one-credit course developed especially for K-12 teachers being offered
on 25-27 June 2008, at the University of Alaska Fairbanks in association
with the Ninth International Conference on Permafrost.
The purpose of the course is to familiarize elementary and high school
teachers with the complex story of how the warming climate will impact
Alaskan society, ecology, and hydrology through degradation of
permafrost. The course will include local field trips around the
Fairbanks area to observe and photograph evidence of permafrost
degradation and its original formation during the last glaciation.
Attendees will participate in field measurements of permafrost thermal
and hydrological variables to quantitatively document the
interdependence among the dynamic thermal and hydrological processes.
The emphasis will be upon simple measurements and observations that may
be conducted by students to better understand the Alaskan environment.
Participants may earn one credit by registering with University of
Alaska Fairbanks Summer Sessions (http://www.uaf.edu/summer/). The cost
is expected to be $60 USD. Each morning will be spent in an informal
classroom-style setting where participants will discuss the
relationships and controls among climate, permafrost, and hydrology.
There will be two afternoon field trips where participants will visit
sites to actively engage in field process studies.
For more information, please contact:
Tohru Saito
E-mail: saito [at] iarc.uaf.edu