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With the goal of generating awareness about polar bears and their subarctic environment, PBI Adventure Learning Videoconference Classroom, cosponsored by Polar Bears International and Frontiers North's Tundra Buggy Adventure, each fall links polar bear researchers on the Tundra Buggy Lodge with students all over the world.

2006
Putting a cool twist on our traditional videoconference model, leveraging our relationship with National Geographic for the Polar Bear Cam, in 2006 the PBI researchers Dr. Don Moore and Dr. Steven Amstrup conducted a videoconference with National Geographic's huge audience tuning in to watch the Polar Bear Cam. To watch the video of Dr.'s Moore and Amstrup from the National Geographic website, click here.

2005
The link, a web-based videoconference, provides students the opportunity to communicate and learn in real-time about current issues affecting polar bears, their subarctic environment and how the community of Churchill factors into the situation. As part of the initiative, we transport a group of students from Churchill's Duke of Marlborough School to the Tundra Buggy Lodge to participate in a conference with a polar bear researcher and (over the internet) students from a different culture altogether.

Watch questions from students attending a 2004 Careers in Science' symposium at the Orlando Science Center interact with and ask Dr. Jane Waterman polar bear questions while she is in Churchill conducting feild research on the remote tundra (some 4,500 kilometres or 2,800 miles away!!).

For our video, you require a high-speed internet connection and a recent version of Quicktime: Windows XP or Mac OS X 10.3.9. Quicktime support for legacy systems also available: Windows 98, etc. and Mac OS 9 and OS X.

For the National Geogrpahic video, you require a high-speed internet connection and a recent version of Real Player: Windows XP or Mac OS X 10.4.9