Concord Consortium Blog

Take part in an Arctic expedition this summer -- in comfort! Ed Hazzard, a former physics teacher and part of a team at the Concord Consortium that develops innovative uses of technology for science teaching, is traveling on a 45' wooden sailboat around the perimeter of Baffin Bay during July and August. Ed will make observations and take simple measurements, using tools that could be used in classrooms at a relatively modest cost. A blog is located at http://arctic.concord.org. Carolyn Staudt, his liaison at CC, will suggest parallel activities that students could do in their own regions.

The crew of four will leave from Nova Scotia on July 10, travel to Newfoundland, up the west coast of Greenland, down the east coast of Baffin Island and Labrador, and back to Nova Scotia by September 1. Ed signed on as the cook, but he couldn't resist doing some science along the way. He will log ocean temperature, salinity, zooplankton, and weather, and post sound files, data, and pictures at the blog.

Onset Computer Corporation, the maker of Hobo dataloggers for industry and education, is donating some of the data-collecting equipment. Rich Marvin, the iScienceProject Program Manager at Onset, is excited about this chance to tie real field measurements to discussions of global climate change. Teachers who want to try parallel weather and water measurements and write their own activities can obtain free dataloggers from Hobo. (http://www.iscienceproject.com/)

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