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Mother polar bear and her cub, captured on a Park School Arctic research trip. Photo courtesy of J. Gorman. Picture this: You’re a rising high school junior, school just let out for the summer, and you’re crouched low in a tundra buggy, in the middle of Canada’s Wapusk National Park, an isolated area near the edge of the Arctic Circle where the ratio of polar bears to humans is about 19 to one—950 polar bears live in the area; only 50 or so humans traverse this sparsely populated region each year. One of the privileged few, you’re waiting for a polar bear to come lumbering along within close enough range for you to snap its picture, which will then be used in ground-breaking research measuring the effect of climate change on this animal species. Incidentally, you’re a rising junior in high school. Park School junior Annika Salzberg is one of a very few… Read More
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Mother polar bear and her cub, captured on a Park School Arctic research trip. Photo courtesy of J. Gorman. Picture this: You’re a rising high school junior, school just let out for the summer, and you’re crouched low in a tundra buggy, in the middle of Canada’s Wapusk National Park, an isolated area near the edge of the Arctic Circle where the ratio of polar bears to humans is about 19 to one—950 polar bears live in the area; only 50 or so humans traverse this sparsely populated region each year. One of the privileged few, you’re waiting for a polar bear to come lumbering along within close enough range for you to snap its picture, which will then be used in ground-breaking research measuring the effect of climate change on this animal species. Incidentally, you’re a rising junior in high school. Park School junior Annika Salzberg is one of a very few… Read More
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