Guest Speaker -Nancy Porter

As students have been full of wonder about their plants in the science unit, we were able to expand our view of what it means to have wonder in many areas of scientific exploration. Today, Nancy Porter, a retired ICCSD teacher and advocate, came to speak about her daughter, Tracy Gregg, a former City High student. Tracy is a volcanologist. She, and several other scientists took a month-long research cruise on a research vessel, Atlantis,to the Galapagos Spreading Center to investigate exactly how lava erupts at an intermediate spreading rate mid-ocean ridge. The goals included trying to figure out how big, how fast, and how long the eruptions are. Nancy shared some of her literature published, research, photos of the crew and mission, and the Galapagos area.

You can access the GRUVEE (Galapagos Ridge Underseas Volcanic Eruptions Expedition) site at:

http://www.gruveecruise.org/GRUVEEeducation/Home.html