Seven Carleton University students will be earning course credits at the end of February while conducting research on the Earth’s southernmost continent.
The students and their instructors, Claudia Schroder-Adams and Natalia Rybczynski, will travel to Antarctica Feb. 12 to 28as part of the Students on Ice program.
“A lot of tourists head to Antarctica for a sightseeing adventure, but this is not going to be a show-and-tell holiday for our students,” says Prof. Schroder-Adams. “It’s an opportunity to do serious scientific research while gaining hands-on experience in a very fragile ecosystem.” Read more
You can follow along the expedition by viewing blogs and photos sent by the Carleton students to our website or to the Students on Ice website.