Chris Mead and Geoffrey Bruce from the ETX Center traveled to the Arctic earlier this month to start gathering assets for “Polar Explorer”. Polar Explorer is a virtual reality teaching tool being developed in collaboration with scientists at Northern Arizona University, the Arizona Geological Survey at the University of Arizona, and the National Snow and Ice Data Center at the University of Colorado Boulder,
Funded by a grant from the National Science Foundation, Polar Explorer is an iVFT-based learning experience through which students will learn about permafrost, its importance to the Arctic environment, and how this region is experiencing rapid change due to global climate change.
