Permafrost outreach 2009

There are now 40Permafrost Monitoring Stations successfully established in Alaska, Siberia, Canada, Mongolia and Greenland. We will continue to install more stations at schools in all of the Arctic Countries. Please check www.uaf.edu/permafrost for updates of our new members!
In the web page you will find our new “Frost Tube” program. This program is aimed to monitor changes in the active layer throughout the school year. NSF Globe program, ACM program and TSP programs are our collaborators for creating a strong monitoring network! We are extremely happy this year because several proposals were awarded towards this project from NSF IPY and NASA. This will be great step for us to be able to visit more schools and establish monitoring stations.

The International Polar Year is a large scientific program focused on the Arctic and the Antarctic from March 2007 to March 2009. IPY, organized through the International Council for Science (ICSU) and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), is actually the fourth polar year, following those in 1882-3, 1932-3, and 1957-8. IPY will involve over 200 projects, with thousands of scientists from over 60 nations examining a wide range of physical, biological and social research topics. It is also an unprecedented opportunity to demonstrate, follow, and get involved with, cutting edge science in real-time. We are happy to be part of an IPY project!
Thank you for your support!
Happy Holydays!
Tohru Saito & Kenji yoshikawa