Polar Regions - March 2007
Lecture 26 - Dr. Robin Ross, Krill in the Southern Ocean (College of Exploration Website)

Activities for ALL

• Polar Websites – Computer exploration (PDF, 43 KB)
• Unobtrusive Observer aka The Spy Who Went Out in the Cold (PDF, 100 KB)
• Adapted from this website
• Data Sheet (XLS, 74 KB)
• A Penguin Foraging Simulation Game (PDF, 110 KB)
• Adapted from the Los Marineros Curriculum Guide, a marine science curriculum available from the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History. Our version is adapted from this website
• Data Sheet (XLS, 20 KB)

Elementary

• Polar Bear Panic!
• Background articles
• Too Far To Swim
• Strange Behavior by Polar Bears
• What has been happening to polar bears in recent decades

Secondary

• Mark & Recapture (PDF, 9 KB)
• Adapted from this website
• Data Sheet (XLS, 23 KB)

Related Articles

• Teachers, Students to Celebrate International Polar Year NSTA Reports, March 2007
• Low Life, Classroom Antarctic, Australian Antarctic Division
• Krill Conservation

People might need to pay more attention to the conservation of krill around Antarctica. By Emily Laughnan, Earthwatch Radio, 24 Feb 2005

• Melting Ice and Meals Lost

The menu for animals in Antarctica seems to be getting smaller as temperatures go up. By Emily Laughnan, Earthwatch Radio, 10 Feb 2005

• The Cost of Killing Krill

By Virginia Gascon Gonzales & Rudolfo Werner Kinkelin, Taipei Times, Nov 2006

• Marine Life Grows Where Antarctic Ice Collapsed

By MSNBC staff and news service reports, Feb 2007

• Current Events off Antarctica

By Hugh Powell, Oceanus: WHOI Online Magazine, March 2007 Krill: Untapped Bounty from the Sea?
By William M. Hamner, National Geographic Magazine, 1984, 165(5), p626-643.

• Behavior of Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba): schooling, foraging, & antipredatory behavior (PDF)

By William M. Hamner & Peggy P. Hamner, Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 2000, 57(Suppl.3), p192-202.

• Long-term decline in krill stock and increase in salps within the Southern Ocean

By Atkinson A, Slegel V, Pakhomov E, Rothery P. 2004. Nature 432, p100-103.

• Boom and Bust in a Polar Hot Zone

Polar Science News by Erik Stokstad. 16 March 2007. Science 315, p1522-1523.

Resources

• Fast Facts Antarctica (PDF, 74 KB)
• Fast Facts Krill
• Fast Facts the Arctic (PDF, 48 KB)
• Glossary (PDF, 51 KB)
• Resources List Antarctica: Websites, Books, Videos (PDF, 116 KB)
• Additional Resources List the Arctic: Websites, Books, Videos (PDF, 71 KB)
• California Science Standard Correlations for the lessons of this lecture and workshop (XLS, 74 KB)
• Images of Antarctica - Peggy Hamner
• PDF (PDF, 1.51 MB)
• PowerPoint (Power Point, 25.43 MB)
• To access more resources from our International Polar Year Online Workshop (April 2007), click this link.