27 January 2010
A college professor from Stevens Point will spend the next three weeks in Antarctica researching how climate change affects carbon dioxide levels in the soil. UW-Stevens Point College of Natural Resources professor Dr. Les Werner left Saturday to join 20 other international research scientists and students at a Russian research station on King George Island.
… Internal grants will make it possible for Werner to conduct the research. He also credits Jenny Baeseman, a 1998 alumna, with the Association of Polar Early Career Scientists who has made an effort to include UWSP as a collaborating research university.
Read the rest of the article here: http://new.wsau.com/news/articles/2010/jan/11/uwsp-professor-conducts-polar-research/
Watch a video interview from a television news program here: http://www.waow.com/Global/story.asp?S=11793220
