The John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding

Polar Passion

Feb 18, 2016

Alden Adolph is a PhD student at Thayer School of Engineering who accompanied fifteen high school students to Greenland on the Joint Science Education Project.

The Dartmouth Engineering Magazine has a story about Thayer PhD graduate student Alden Adolph, who accompanied fifteen high school students to Greenland last summer with the Joint Science Education Project (JSEP), funded by the National Science Foundation. JSEP is run jointly by the Institute of Arctic Studies at the Dickey Center for International Understanding and the Government of Greenland. The students are from the US, Greenland and Denmark.

Adolph was accompanied by Thayer PhD candidate Amber Whelsky and Lauren Culler, Co-PI of JSEP and a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute of Arctic Studies. Adolph and Culler were students in the Polar Environmental Change IGERT.