The University of Alaska EPSCoR program, NASA IPY and NSF IPY, Thermal State of Permafrost programs are conducting an outreach effort in conjunction with it's research focus on permafrost and infrastructure. The outreach effort has been termed the "Permafrost Health" program and consists of installing permafrost temperature monitoring systems!


Kenji and his family visit Tokyo in June. We have a chance to talk 6 grader students in Tokyo. They are very well behave and well understanding science. The principal (Nishidome-Sensei) organized great introduction. We agree to cooperate for future student science projects!

Terelj is about 2000 people live beautiful southernern boundary of Siberian boreal forest. When I saw north facing slopes, it feel being Siberia. Once I looked at south facing slopes, it typical mongolian grass land, where is absent of permafrost.
All of the students in Terelj is K1-7. No high school is in here. So, we decide to talk with younger students!