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Meet polar scientist, Dr. Rachael Morgan-Kiss :
Meet polar scientist, Dr. Rachael Morgan-Kiss :
3 Fun Facts About Dr. Morgan-Kiss:
I have a very noisy Beagle and a very tall greyhound who both receive a lot of attention when we are on a hike. The whole town can hear the Beagle yelling out the window when he goes for a car ride.
I have been on two high adventure trips with the Boy Scouts. On one trip we canoed and portaged for 2 weeks in the wilderness of Northern Canada.
I love to travel. I have been going to Antarctica for 15 years. Last year I went on a trip to Iceland, Greenland and the Faroe Islands and saw Volcanoes, glaciers, and an ice fiord.
Email: class.scidisc2+polar.exp@gmail.com
Instructor Bio:
Instructor Bio:
Dr. Morgan-Kiss is a professor of Environmental Microbiology at Miami University of Ohio. She studies protist communities living in ice-covered lakes in Antarctica and has a low temperature lab in Ohio for studying cold-adapted algae. She grew up in a small town on an island in British Columbia, Canada. She studied plant biology and physiology at the University of Victoria on Vancouver Island, Canada. For her PhD project, she traveled to Ontario, Canada, and worked on her first Antarctic alga which was isolated from Lake Bonney, McMurdo Dry Valleys. Since she became a professor at Miami University, she has travelled to the McMurdo Dry Valleys many times and she is an investigator of the McMurdo Dry Valley Long Term Ecological Research Program.
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Computer, laptop, tablet or smartphone with access to Internet and Zoom capabilities
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