IGERT Students Experience "Big Science"
by Lee McDavid, Program Manager, Institute of Arctic Studies Photos by Courtney Hammond '11 Five Dartmouth graduate students in engineering, earth sciences, and ecology are bundled into puffy parkas and insulated pants standing on a layer of ice a mile thick marveling at a panoramic 360-degree blanket of white. "It makes me feel so small. It's humbling," says earth sciences graduate student Lee Corbett. Tonight it will be near zero and she'll be sleeping in a tent.
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