Education

Because no one owns Antarctica and there is no native population, the continent has no government and no flag. If it were to have a flag, what design would best represent this pristine wilderness that plays a unique role in global science? Flags from around the world were submitted to the ARISE (ANDRILL Research Immersion for Science Educators) team in Antarctica and during the ANDRILL Open House, the McMurdo community voted on the flags it would most like to see flying over Antarctica. The flags below are listed with the teacher's names.  Congratulations to the wonderful artists whose flags are 'flown' here.

ANDRILL and the ARISE Program

ANDRILL

ANDRILL is a new, exciting and ambitious drilling program that builds on a legacy of international efforts to recover important geological records that lie hidden beneath Antarctica’s icy blanket. The program’s primary objectives are to investigate Antarctica’s role in global environmental

Use ANDRILL as an exciting, integrative part of your classroom.

Follow the research of an international team of scientists and educators from Germany, Italy, New Zealand and the United States as they recover stratigraphic records from McMurdo Sound, Antarctica.

Six educators from the multi-national ARISE (ANDRILL Research Immersion for Science Educators) team have brought exciting real-world science into your classroom through interactive blogging, video journals, photo collections, and engaging materials produced on the ice with ANDRILL scientists during the October- January drilling season.

Join us as we travel to the coldest, windiest, driest place on earth to study the amazing geologic stories that Antarctica has to tell. Check out the ANDRILL Project Iceberg website at www.andrill.org/iceberg.

We invite you to join us on this exciting adventure. See you there!

Interested in how ANDRILL found where to drill and why? See how the science process takes place in today’s world.

Read a paper about how seals stay warm by a senior biochemistry major at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Check out the technology behind the ANDRILL drill rig and how the ANDRILL team will drill through the ice shelf and down to the sediment at the sea floor.