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Blanco Middle School science teacher Kirk Beckendorf is in McMurdo, Antarctica this month. He’s doing polar research with a team of scientists through the PolarTREC program. Their main mission is to work on more than 60 weather stations located around the continent. Those stations collect weather data that is a vital part of scientific projects in Antarctica. Beckendorf is interested in how the data relates to climate change. But as you’ll hear in his podcasts to KUT, his adventures include a wide range of topics from wildlife to survival.
KUT’s Crystal Chavez is bringing you the latest news from McMurdo, posting Beckendorf’s podcasts regularly.
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174 days ago
Responding to a weather station in need of repair, Blanco Middle School science teacher Kirk Beckendorf heads for the abandoned Byrd Field camp. He flies on a two engine Twin Otter airplane away fr...
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176 days ago
Blanco Middle School Science Teacher Kirk Beckendorf is now in WAIS Divide, Antarctica. He sets up camp in a tent on top of the 2 mile thick West Antarctic Ice Sheet. As he describes in his podca...
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178 days ago
Faced with an ongoing mission of repairing damaged weather stations, Blanco Middle School science teacher Kirk Beckendorf travels 700 miles from the McMurdo Ice Shelf in Antarctica to the remote We...
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183 days ago
Blanco Middle School science teacher Kirk Beckendorf drives out onto the McMurdo Ice Shelf in Antarctica and steps out onto the snow to see… a rugby match in progress?! Not a common sight in tha...
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189 days ago
Blanco Middle School science teacher, Kirk Beckendorf, and the team of meteorologists he's working with in Antarctica manage automated weather stations set up around the continent. The stations tra...
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192 days ago
Everywhere in Antarctica is very inaccessible, so the only way for Kirk Beckendorf and his team to reach the weather station they needed to repair (It hadn't been transmitting wind data) in Cape Bi...
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