Alaska's Whittier Students Study Arctic Weather, Sea Ice, Buoys, and Boats too!
The middle and high school students in Whittier, Alaska on Prince William Sound explored Arctic geography, ocean currents, and buoys.
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arcticfloatboat
- 4 days ago
A World Away - Maryland Students Connect to the Arctic
Northern Middle School and Windy Hill Middle School students in Maryland study climate change and the Arctic with Float Your Boat.
arcticfloatboat
- Mar 3
Tuscaloosa Students Send Boats North
Tuscaloosa Academy teacher Mrs. Jaclyn Foster integrated Float Your Boat into her year long Arctic teaching as a Grosvenor Teaching Fellow.
arcticfloatboat
- Feb 28
Hometown Science, Buoys, and Boats
Communities members in Carbondale, Colorado decorated wooden boats for Arctic deployment during the Hometown Science Cafe Series...
Dave Forcucci
- Nov 10, 2022
Arctic Ocean Driftwood
Over half the wood toy boat reports have been from Iceland. It turns out that Iceland is a magnet for driftwood which originates thousands o
arcticfloatboat
- Oct 4, 2022
Healy Deploys Boats at North Pole
Float Boat wooden boats were deployed at the North Pole on the US Coast Guard Healy on Sunday, October 2, 2022 by John Wigglesworth
Dave Forcucci
- Sep 29, 2022
Wigglesworth to Captain the Wooden Boat Launch
John Wigglesworth is sailing on the Healy to make sure that the wooden boats are deployed on the Arctic sea ice along with the satellite...
Dave Forcucci
- Sep 20, 2022
Healy is Headed Toward the Ice
US Coast Guard Healy icebreaker is in the Arctic Ocean heading toward the North Pole in open water closing in on the sea ice.
Dave Forcucci
- Jul 27, 2022
Where Are The Boats?
Following the vessels that will be deploying wooden boats at the North Pole (and nearby) in the coming weeks.
Sarah R. Johnson
- Jun 10, 2022
Colorado Mountains to the North Pole - Sending Wooden Boats to the Arctic
Community members in rural western Colorado mountains learned all about the Arctic Ocean with Float Your Boat library programs.
arcticfloatboat
- May 23, 2022
Boat Found: Northern Coast of Norway
Guro Kvåle Fredriksen reported a wooden boat in Sør-Rekvikbukta, Arnøya, Nord-Norge 2 years after deployment by KV Svalbard CAATEX campaign
Dave Forcucci
- May 7, 2022
Guðni's Quest
Guðni Hrafn Pétursson Olsen discovers multiple wooden boats in the Westfjords region of Iceland 7 years after being deployed in Arctic Ocean
arcticfloatboat
- Apr 12, 2022
Boat Found: East Coast of Iceland
Zbigniew Krysztopa reports boat on east coast of Iceland after it was more than seven years at sea.
Sarah R. Johnson
- Apr 7, 2022
Spring 2022 Utqiagvik Deployment
During the International Arctic Buoy Programme's expedition to Utqiagvik, Alaska, to deploy buoys, the team also deployed wooden boats.
arcticfloatboat
- Nov 18, 2020
2020 KV Svalbard Wooden Boat Deployment
The KV Svalbard deployed boats at three locations in the Arctic Ocean during the CAATEX campaign.
arcticfloatboat
- Apr 15, 2020
Found Boat: Isle of Harris, Scotland
Etta May Olley found a boat on Northton beach, Isle of Harris, Scotland
arcticfloatboat
- Oct 1, 2015
Healy Ship Wood Boat Deployment 2015
From Bill Schmoker Read all about it during his GEOTRACES PolarTREC Expedition US GEOTRACES participated in the “Float Your Boat” an...
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