Seasons and Biomes Day 4

Believe your eyes.... it says -24 deg. F.	It's so cold you cannot remove the frost from the inside of the car windows. It could freeze your skin if you try to wipe it off! The sun peeks over the horizon as we head for class in the van.
The University of Alaska has a reindeer herd. The animals prefer to be outside, even at -24 degrees. Of course there are many winter days here at -40 degrees and they like that too.
The International Arctic Research Center - our classroom is the	top floor that curves along the top of the building.
	Water ice at -24 degrees is a fantastic building material.
This is Cary. She has four students doing independent research in GLOBE who would like to connect with MSSD students. Cary is a bush teacher in a small school on Kodiak Island.	This is Todd. He teaches in a small school in Nome, Alaska. He will bring 8 middle school student to Washington, D.C. in April, and would like to meet MSSD students.
A GLOBE Alumni student from Thailand presented about her country and it's culture.	Workshop participants study the GLOBE Seasons Poster and discuss patterns in the data.
Mimi has attended the entire workshop and is still smiling!	Dr. David Verbyla describes principles of Remote Sensing and data analysis.
	Dr. Elena Sparrow, principle science investigator for the Seasons and Biomes project ends the workshop with encouragement for teachers to take the information we've learned this week back to our classrooms.
Time to go home
Back at Pikes I decided I had to have a picture of a very special feature of this hotel.... home baked cookies are always there for you!	Another problem solved in this very cold environment... all the plumbing has jackets, even in public bathrooms!
At the airport, an unusual view of a moose.	The AlaskaAir plane pulls up to take on passengers. At this point I noticed two young people signing near this window. They were seniors from Alaska School for the Deaf! We exchanged email addresses and will get in touch..
Airplane views of Alaska......	There is NO liquid water at -24 degrees! A frozen river.

A pink glow on the horizon as the atmosphere plays with the light of the setting sun.	A dark blue shadow across the horizon - night time is coming.
	Preparing to land, the lights of Anchorage shine in the distance.