Collection Credits: Polar Sciences Collection

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The Teachers' Domain Polar Sciences Collection is a collaboration of WGBH Educational Productions, WGBH Media Library, and WGBH Interactive. Major funding for this project is provided by the National Science Foundation. Teachers' Domain is a Pathways project of the National Science Digital Library. This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 0632085. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.

Production Credits

Project Management

Denise Blumenthal

Karen Cariani

Christine Dietlin

Ted Sicker

Amy Tonkonogy

Resource Production Team

Anna Brooks

Julie Ecker

Mary Ellen Gardiner

Jessica Gidal

Salme Lopez

Emily Lu

Dan Paquin

Lisa Rosenthal

Contextual Content Development

Anna Brooks

Emily Lu

Christopher Riegle

Web Production, Design, and Development

Jon Alper

Jamie Biggar

Joe Brandt

Bob Donahue

Jason Kahn

Dan Paquin

Peter Pinch

Christian Wise

Business Management

Jim Barton

Sue Chalifoux

Maria Constantinides

Amy Stahl

Copy Editor

Cindy Bond

Video Closed Captioning

The Caption Center

Advisors

Ray Barnhardt, University of Alaska Fairbanks

Brian Campbell, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

Sally Crissman, TERC

Russanne Low, GLOBE

Resource Credits

36Clicks - Fotoliacom

Genevieve Anderson

Antarctic Geological Drilling (ANDRILL)

Arctic Athabaskan Council

Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (AMAP) 2002 Assessment

Australian Antarctic Division/Robert Reeves

Beerkoff - Fotoliacom

British Antarctic Survey (BAS)

Igor Dutina - Fotolia.com

Elena Elisseeva - Fotolia.com

Lloyd Fales/Sweetspot Pictures, Inc.

Yaroslav Gnatuk - Fotolia.com

International Institute for Sustainable Development/Hunters and Trappers Committee of Sachs Harbor

Library of Congress

Loke Films, Denmark

L. David Mech

NASA

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center/Josefino Comiso, Robert Gersten, and Claire Parkinson

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio

NASA/Ben Holt Sr.

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)

NOAA Department of Commerce

NOAA/Rear Admiral Harley Nygren

NOAA/Mike Dunn

NOAA/Commander John Bortniak

NOAA/Captain Budd Christman

National Park Service

National Science Foundation/Joe Mastroianni

National Science Foundation/Steven Profaizer

National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) and NSIDC World Data Center for Glaciology

Jerome Pine

Alice Rawson - Fotolia.com

James Roth/University of Delaware/NSF

Texas A&M University: Ocean Drilling Distance Learning Program

Tinka - Fotolia.com

United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)/GRID-Arendal

U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)

USGS/Alaska Science Center

USGS/Dr. Steven Amstrup

USGS/Richard Waitt

WGBH Educational Foundation

Jan Will - Fotolia.com

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI)

WHOI/Henry Dick

Feng Yu - Fotolia.com

Zemlanin - Fotoliacom

Image Credits on the Special Collection Page

Atmosphere: © Gwich'in - Fotolia.com

Ice: Lloyd Fales/Sweetspot Pictures, Inc.

Oceans: NOAA/Rear Admiral Harley Nygren

People: International Institute for Sustainable Development/Hunters and Trappers Committee of Sachs Harbor

Land: © Gwich'in - Fotolia.com

Special thanks to AFTRA and AF of M for granting permission to use segments produced with participation of their members.