Arctic WARMing Engineering Challenge

This project will introduce students to current research being conducted in the Arctic, through the work of Dr. Hill at Old Dominion University. The WARM research project aims to collect light intensity and temperature measurements under the Arctic ice pack to determine the link between light penetration and surface ocean warming. In this lesson students are challenged by Dr. Hill to support her in her research, by designing and engineering a new prototype of the WARM buoy. Students also will be analyzing numerical and photographic data and presenting their findings and design to Dr. Hill.

Authors: Elizabeth Eubanks, Helen Haskell, Victoria Hill; EARTH 2016

Lesson Resources

• Lesson Plan
• Video | Presentation
• WARM background resources
• WARM Data set for Buoy #3
• Data set support
• Photos
• Arctic lat-lon map
• Maps of buoy drift
• WARM Buoy diagram
• Grading rubric