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Working with Inuit community is part of scientific expedition

05-16-2007 · EurekAlert!

When Elizabeth Thomas, a graduate student at the University at Buffalo, travels this month to Baffin Island in the northeast Canadian Arctic, she not only will be sampling sediments from the bottom of frozen lakes, she also will be educating a native Inuit class about global warming, taking local schoolchildren on a sediment-coring field trip and may participate in a call-in radio show with translators that will be broadcast in Inuktitut, the local language.

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