Date

  1. Newsletter Available
    Ice Bits Newsletter: Spring 2017
    U.S. Ice Drilling Program Office

  2. Curricula Available
    Interdisciplinary Science/Indigenous Knowledge
    Sharing Knowledge Alaska

  1. Newsletter Available
    Ice Bits Newsletter: Spring 2017
    U.S. Ice Drilling Program Office

The U.S. Ice Drilling Program Office (IDPO) announces the release of the Spring 2017 edition of their Ice Bits newsletter. The Ice Bits newsletter is the quarterly update of the U.S. IDPO and Ice Drilling Design and Operations (IDDO) group activities.

Topics highlighted in this edition include:

  • IDDO Welcomes New Field Support Manager;
  • Antarctic Cargo Returns to Madison;
  • Field Support to 2017 Arctic Projects;
  • Equipment Development (Stampfli 2-Inch Drill, Rapid Air Movement (RAM) Drill, Sediment Laden Lake Ice Drill, Foro 3000 Drill);
  • IDPO and IDDO Lead Successful Science Advisory Board and Technical Advisory Board Meetings in Madison, Wisconsin;
  • White Papers from the Subglacial Access Science Community Planning Workshop Available;
  • IDPO Involved in Multiple Education and Outreach Events (School of Ice, Checking Out Your Team, IDDO Outreach Event, Polar Educators International (PEI) Workshop);
  • IDDO Driller, Robb Kulin, selected by NASA to Join the 2017 Astronaut Candidate Class; and
  • Requesting ice drilling support.

The IDPO and the IDDO group were established by the National Science Foundation (NSF) in 2008 to coordinate long-term and short-term planning in collaboration with the greater U.S. ice science community and to provide ice drilling and ice coring support and expertise for NSF funded research.

To view and download the current newsletter, go to: http://www.icedrill.org/icebits/.

For more information about the U.S. Ice Drilling Program, go to:
http://www.icedrill.org/index.shtml.

  1. Curricula Available
    Interdisciplinary Science/Indigenous Knowledge
    Sharing Knowledge Alaska

The Alaska Office of the Smithsonian Arctic Studies Center has released two new interdisciplinary curricula available as free downloads from the Sharing Knowledge Alaska website. The two new curricula are: Salmon Give Life: Learning from Alaska's First Peoples and Gifts from the Land: Lifeways and Quill Art of the Athabascan Peoples.

These resources are developed for students at the high school level, but can be adapted to meet other classroom and homeschooling needs.

Sourced from free online resources about Alaska Native cultures and extending to other fields, the lessons offer broad educational experiences. Students learn about Alaska native peoples, including traditional knowledge, subsistence practices, languages, and values. Activities include researching porcupines and salmon, learning to make things with quills and salmon skin, and exploring museum collections. Materials include instructions for teachers, student handouts, answer keys, correlations to culturally responsive schools and Alaska state standards, selected resources, and enrichment activities.

To access the available curricula, go to:
https://naturalhistory.si.edu/arctic/html/sharing-knowledge-alaska/educ…

For more information about Sharing Knowledge Alaska and additional resources, go to:
https://naturalhistory.si.edu/arctic/html/sharing-knowledge-alaska/Inde…

For questions, contact:
Dawn Biddison
Email: dbiddison [at] anchoragemuseum.org