IGERT women digging a snow pit at Summit Station on the Greenland Ice Sheet. (photo by Courtney Hammond)

The IGERT Polar Environmental Change PhD Program at the Institute of Arctic Studies sends a number of young women into the field to do polar science and engineering. In fact a majority of the 24 IGERT fellows are women. In the most recent cohort of students who started in September, five of the six are women.

After the Summer 2012 field season in Greenland, they wanted to show their enthusiasm for science and field work by creating a video. Read about some of the reasons they created it and watch it for yourself on Dartmouth Now.