2002-2003 Science Planning Summary

			2002-2003 Science Planning Summary
			Teachers Experiencing Antarctica and the Arctic (TEA)

	NSF Contact:	Guy G. Guthridge National Science Foundation 4201 Wilson Blvd. Arlington, VA 22230 703.292.7414 gguthrid@nsf.gov

	List of 2002-2003 teachers and the science projects they are joining
	For information about each teacher, visit http://tea.rice.edu
	Teachers Experiencing Antarctica and the Arctic is sponsored by NSF Office of Polar Programs and the Division of Elementary, Secondary, and Informal Education in the Directorate of Education and Human Resources. It is facilitated by Rice University, the Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory, and the American Museum of Natural History.
	Candidates are nominated by principal investigators or by themselves. Selections are made in a competitive process. Awardees travel to Antarctica and become working members of research teams. Principal investigators volunteer to accept TEAs on their teams.
	TEA is part of the NSF's strategy to integrate research and education in an effort to infuse education with the joy of discovery and an awareness of its connections to exploration. The program's goals are to immerse teachers in research as part of their professional development, to bring polar research into the classroom in engaging ways, to underscore the societal relevance of science and the scientific process, and to maintain a lively community among researchers, teachers, students, and school districts.
	NSF funds the extra of supporting teachers including: · A substitute while the teacher is away · Travel to the investigator's institution before the trip · Travel by the teacher to Antarctica · Travel by the investigator to the teacher's school district for joint presentations
	This is an exciting program that offers benefits to the research team, the teacher, the classroom, and K-12 students both present and future. Teachers and school districts can find more information at http:tea.rice.edu.

Teacher	School	Event Number	Principal Investigator	Project
Andrew Caldwell	Douglas County High School Castle Rock, CO	GO-058-0	Ralph Harvey	The Antarctic search for meteorites ANSMET
Mary Ann DeMello	Rockland Public School Rockland, MA	IO-196-M	Brenda Hall	Collaborative Research: Millennial-scale fluctuations of Dry Valleys lakes: A test of regional climate variability and the interhemispheric (a)synchrony of climate change
Jerri Lunn Hollyfield	McElwain Elementary Birmingham, AL	BO-022-O	Charles Amsler	The chemical ecology of shallow-water marine macroalgae and invertebrates on the Antarctic peninsula
Louis T. Huffman	Kennedy Junior High Lisle, IL	BM-042-M	Diane McKnight	McMurdo Dry Valleys LTER: The role of natural legacy on ecosystem structure and function in a polar desert.
Eric Muhs	Shorewood High School Seattle, WA	AA-130-O	Robert Morse	AMANDA 2000
Michael R. Weiss	Yarmouth High School Yarmouth, Maine	GO-056-O	Bruce Marsh	The ferrar magmatic mush Column system, Dry Valleys, Antarctica

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