Allan Miller
About
Expeditions:
Oden Antarctic Expedition 06
Occupation:
Teacher
Organization:
National Science Foundation
Allan Miller has spent the past 20 years working as an educator and administrator throughout Alaska, teaching science at the elementary, middle and high school levels. He has a Masters degree in Exercise Physiology and coached the U.S. Biathlon team through the 1998 Olympic season. Allan has had a lifelong passion for aviation and space, is a licensed pilot and volunteers as an educator for numerous NASA and Civil Air Patrol Aerospace programs. He has won several awards for his teaching and outreach efforts and was recently named an Albert Einstein Distinguished Educator Fellow. Allan is currently working for the National Science Foundation, helping coordinate K-12 outreach efforts connected with the International Polar Year.
Allan Miller's Content
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March 26, 2007 Mrs. Chippy joins NASA for astrobiology research in the desert! |
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March 23, 2007 Polar Bears in the Desert? |
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January 27, 2007 Story from Peninsula Clarion 1/27 |
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January 13, 2007 Photo of Oden at McMurdo Ice Pier |
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December 28, 2006 How do you get off the ice? |
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December 28, 2006 The cost of exploration |
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December 27, 2006 McMurdo Station - Old Friends and Science |
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December 27, 2006 Goodbye Oden - hello McMurdo Station |
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January 7, 2007 Mrs. Chippy back home |
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January 7, 2007 Note from the Oden |
Read Full Journal | 7 January 2007 |
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| IPY Research Presentation | Presentation | 28 January 2011 |
Good question Megan. Scott's journal is an incredibly sad ending to a journey to the south pole that ended in tragedy. He and his entire team passed away from starvation and cold on their return trip, and his final journals were found months later in their tent along with their frozen...{read more}
Thanks for sharing Lollie - it was really powerful to be in the same hut where these heros lived their adventures. I have two favorite books - one is from National Geographic Press called The South Pole: A Historical Reader edited by Anthony Brandt. It has excerpts from journals from most of...{read more}
Dog teams have played a huge role in Antarctic exploration, they were especially crucial to Roald Amundsen's first successful expedition to the South Pole, allowing him to outrace Scott by a full month. But they are not used any longer - with the advent of airplanes and other dependable...{read more}
Thanks for another question Kimberly - I think I'd like my next expedition to be with my family up to Alaska this summer - to reexplore the wilderness of the Kenai Peninsula where we live. It's incredible to me how similar the Arctic and Antarctic look on the surface - I was talking...{read more}
Marion - I've been really fortunate in that I've had the opportunity to many different places around the world. Mostly I've spent time in Russia - I studied Russian in college and that has enabled me to spend about a year and a half all over the country, teaching, studying and...{read more}
This trip definitely reminded me what a huge planet we have here. From Antarctica we flew for 5 hours to get to New Zealand, then it was another 12 hours of flying to get to Los Angeles California. The weird thing is that according to the clock on the wall in Los Angeles - the whole trip from...{read more}
Emma - great question, since I was a boy I have loved to study explorers - people like Columbus who came to America, Amundsen who went to the South Pole, and Armstrong who went to the moon - and I would always dream that maybe someday I'd get to be part of some great adventure too. So when...{read more}
Well it took about 2 weeks - but one of the first things we saw was the big volcano - Mt. Erebus on Ross Island as we approached McMurdo Station. Even though it has snow on it year round - it was steaming (but not really erupting). It was a very exciting view for our first sighting of land...{read more}
It's amazing but you won't find a single land mammal anywhere in Antarctica - this simply isn't an ecosystem that seems to be capable of supporting polar bears, or moose, caribou, fox, marmot, squirrel, etc - all the things that we are used to having in the Arctic up in Alaska. To...{read more}
We saw hundreds of seals - mostly crabeater seals, some Ross seals and even a few leopard seals - but never an elephant seal. They apparently are found primarily in other parts of Antarctica from where our expedition took us. And we did finally get to Mt. Erebus - it was a beautiful sunny day...{read more}