Science lectures in the Arctic's "Science City": Barrow, Alaska.(Infonorth)

From: Arctic | Date: March 1, 2004| Author: | Copyright information

WHERE CAN YOU HEAR A PRESENTATION ABOUT mushing dogs to the North Pole, life on Mars, traditional bowhead whaling, the anatomy of seals, robot airplanes used for atmospheric research, or the geology of Europa, the ice-covered moon of Jupiter? If you said the Smithsonian Institution, you're probably correct. But if you named the refurbished powerhouse in Barrow, Alaska, where the Barrow Schoolyard Project talks are held each week, you would also be correct.

Beginning in spring 2002, the Science Division of the Utqiagvik Inupiat Corporation (UIC), Barrow's local village ...

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