MEMPHIS — An educator at the Pink Palace Museum in Memphis has been selected to do research in Antarctica.
Alex Eilers leaves in January and told The Commercial Appeal that she “cannot wait to go” on the six-week trip in which she will help researchers study Weddell seals.
The trip is offered through a professional development program for educators called PolarTREC, Teachers and Researchers Exploring and Collaborating. The program is funded through the National Science Foundation and managed by the Arctic Research Consortium of the United States.
Eilers is the second museum educator selected to participate in the program since it began in 2004, said Janet Warbuton, PolarTREC project manager.
Warbuton said Eilers was chosen in part due to her extensive work with Weddell seals.