3rd grade on the tundra!

Yesterday Ms. Jenn Wallace's 3rd grade class from the Fred Ipalook Elementary School (Barrow, Alaska) took a field trip to visit us on the tundra at the Cake Eater Lab!  The students learned about snow, meteorology, and air sampling.  One of their favorite activities though was running in and out of snow pits!  The field trip was organized by graduate student Ross Lieb-Lappen (Dartmouth College) with help from graduate students Melinda Webster (University of Washington) and Erin Gleason (University of Alaska, Fairbanks)!  We all had a lot of fun with the kids!

Learning about the temperature buoys from graduate student Melinda Webster (Univ. of Washington)

Learning about measuring wind speed and temperature from graduate student Melinda Webster (Univ. of Washington)

Learning about snow chamber experiments from graduate student Kyle Custard (Purdue University)

Learning about our snow chamber shelf and going to visit the "whooshing" sound of the mass spectrometer inlet with post-doc Dr. Kerri Pratt (Purdue University)

Learning about the flow tube air sampling inlet from graduate student Kyle Custard (Purdue University)

School bus at the Cake Eater Lab!

Thank you very much to Ross Lieb-Lappen (Dartmouth College) for organizing this great field trip, and thank you to Jenn Wallace and her awesome 3rd grade class!