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			 **   THE GEM MESSENGER   **
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						     Volume 6, Number 60
						     November 26, 1996

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Request to PIs :  Hosting a Teacher/Student Pair
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From: Odile de la Beaujardiere (odelabe@nsf.gov)

OPP and EHR plan to expand the "Research Experiences for High School
Teachers and Students" program in the Arctic for FY97.  This program
selects outstanding high school students, matches them with teachers
and assigns them to Arctic projects.

The costs are covered by OPP and EHR by supplements to funded PIs
and direct support to the teachers, allowing students and teachers
to work with Arctic researchers.  In a pilot program last year, Tim
Buckley, a high school teacher from Barrow joined PI Deb Meese,
oceanographer from CRREL, and worked on her project.

We would now like to hear from interested Arctic PIs (in all areas
of Arctic science who are funded or have reasonable expectations for
funded field programs in FY97).  If you would like to volunteer to
host a  teacher/student pair, please respond no later than December
15 to tpyle@nsf.gov with copies sent to cseyfrit@nsf.gov,
wsukow@nsf.gov, and your program manager.

EHR will conduct a national competition to choose teachers and
students.  When they have made their selections, EHR and the Arctic
Section will make decisions about the best matches of teacher/student
teams to PI hosts.  At this point we are asking for a show of interest
from Arctic PIs.

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