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HANOVER, N.H. – ERDC Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (CRREL) Researchers Jackie Richter-Menge and Leonard Zabilansky recently hosted a group of students from St. Paul’s School’s (Concord, N.H.) Advanced Marine Biology course.
The students’ interests ranged from topics in climate change to experimental design and engineering.
Richter-Menge, an Arctic researcher, provided a presentation, “A front row seat to climate warming,” and a walk-through of the cold rooms. She also shared her educational background with the students and strongly recommended an engineering major, explaining that engineering is a good starting point by providing a very beneficial understanding of math and science they can use in whatever they decide to do as a profession.
Civil Engineer Zabilansky briefed the students on the experimental design to understand his recent work with others on detecting and mitigating oil under ice. This, according to Zabilansky, with the recent oil exploration efforts in the Arctic makes this research particularly timely and important, especially to the environment.
Founded in 1856, St. Paul’s School is a coeducational boarding school for grades nine through 12. Since 1958, the school has provided an Advanced Studies Program, a five-and-a-half-week intensive study program for approximately 260 juniors annually from the state’s public and parochial high schools.