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  IPY researcher visits Grade 5 class at Grandview Heights Elementary

  On March 18th 2010, Isla Myers-Smith, a graduate student at the University of Alberta will visit a grade 5 class at Grandview Heights Elementary School. We will discuss what it is like to do field research in the north and will conduct some activities to learn about Arctic research including radio tracking.

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  Grade 5 class visit to Biological Sciences, University of Alberta

  On March 16th 2010, a grade 5 class will visit the department of Biological Sciences at the University of Alberta. Isla Myers-Smith a graduate student in the department and some of her colleagues will lead a discussion about what it is like to do research in the north. We will visit the U of A zoology museum to check out some northern mammals, do a tour of some research laboratories and the BioSci building, and then head outside to learn how to radio track an animal.

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  Ecology Up North School Visits in Whitehorse

  Isla Myers-Smith a PhD candidate is doing school visits in Whitehorse over the month of October in association with the International Polar Year Polar Week. She will be talking about her field research in the north, the work of other northern ecologists across Canada and about the changing ecology of the north.

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