Seasons and Biomes: IARC Day 2

Breakfast was ready at the Lodge by 7:00 am	Teachers grab a quick breakfast before catching the van to the University.
The waffle iron works great - makes delicious waffles!	Waffle Off. Is that like mosquito Off? Maybe it prevents waffles from sticking to your hips if you eat to many?
We arrived at the University of Alaska before 8:00 am. Those top floor windows are our classroom.	Mr. Coverdale and Ms. Svoboda check the rain gauge at the UAF GLOBE weather shelter .
During the morning each teacher and trainer explained what they were doing with GLOBE at their school.	The GLOBE alumni: These students each come from a different biome. They support GLOBE activities in their countries: Czech Republic, Cameroon, Thailand, Bahrain, Argentina, and the USA.
Observing changes in satellite image: We studied two Landsat satellite images of the Bear Glacier.	In the images we could identify different landforms and see changes in the glacier.
We compared two Landsat images that were taken 17 years apart.	Dr. Martin Jeffries and Kim Morris from the Univ. of Alaska were already familiar with Bear glacier.
Ms. D'Auria from Alaska and Ms. Ehrenpreis from Estonia compare the Bear Glacier images.	We studied the Landsat images we could see significant changes in the Bear glacier. In 1986 the glacier was very wide at the front. In the 2003 image the glacier had lost a lot of ice from the front, and there were many icebergs in the water around it. The images raised many questions about why the glacier is changing.