Resources Available on Arctic Change
The New York Times
For further information, please contact:
Andy Revkin, The New York Times
E-mail: revkin [at] nytimes.com
The New York Times recently co-produced a documentary with Discovery,
"Arctic Rush," and posted a three-part series on the trajectory and
consequences of arctic change entitled "The Big Melt." The articles are
archived at:
http://www.nytimes.com/earth
To maximize the value of all of this work, particularly in the runup to
the International Polar Year, the paper is planning to develop a web
portal archiving its arctic coverage and multimedia packages, including
some archival stories dating back to the 1850s. A goal is to establish
web destinations for both college-level and secondary courses focusing
on the science and significance of high-latitude climate change. A
prototype arctic web page is in design stages. Other similar pages can
be explored at http://www.nytimes.com/college and
http://www.nytimes.com/learning.
Also, Andy Revkin, the environment reporter for The New York Times and
lead writer of "The Big Melt", has begun doing iSight iChat interactive
'visits' with undergraduate and graduate classes around the country to
discuss the series and his three recent visits to the far north: the
North Pole, North Slope, and Greenland. The interchanges allow students
to hear a brisk lecture from Revkin and then do a Q&A session. Sessions
are easy to arrange on any campus with a Mac, an I-Sight camera/mic, AOL
instant messaging AIM software, and a digital projector. For further
information and to participate in an interactive visit, contact Andy
Revkin (revkin [at] nytimes.com).
Finally, for institutions doing polar-related outreach to the middle
school or high school level, Revkin has written a book on the once and
future arctic, to be published this April, called "The North Pole Was
Here: Puzzles and Perils at the Top of the World." It follows his trip
to the sea ice with the NSF-funded team running the North Pole
Environmental Observatory. Details on the book are available:
http://www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com/catalog/titledetail.cfm?titleNumber…