An Ice-Breaking Experience

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Kathleen Couchon sailed as a teacher-researcher aboard the Swedish icebreaker Oden on IODP Expedition 302 (ACEX), in the summer of 2004. Her experience was possible through the NSF-funded ARMADA project, administered by the Office of Marine Programs at the University of Rhode Island, Graduate School of Oceanography.

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"Would you like to go to the North Pole?" With an emphatic and affirmative "Yes!," this middle-school science teacher found herself off on the adventure of a lifetime. In the summer of 2004, I spent six weeks as part of the Arctic Coring Expedition (ACEX) in the Arctic Ocean on IODP Expedition 302. I quickly found myself immersed in a scientific experience that will forever shape the way I look at teaching.

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Couchon, K. 2006. An ice-breaking experience. Oceanography 19(4):177, http://dx.doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2006.26.

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