Polar CAP (Climate Ambassadors Program)
A program from youth for youth, that brings together high school/secondary age students interested in learning and communicating about the importance of our polar regions. Designed around the principles of INSPIRE - INFORM - ACTIVATE, we first engage youth through resources that showcase the Arctic and Antarctic, then through a range of tools we explore the climate messages and connections that link us to these incredibly important areas, and finally we support these ambassadors as they create their own resources and assist in locating opportunities to share and inspire others! Interested? If you would like to learn more about our resources you can contact us here! And to learn about our summer in person internship program read more here and see more below!
Summer 2025 In-Person Polar CAP Internships!
Our Summer 2025 in-person high school/community college student Polar CAP (Climate Ambassadors Program) is recruiting now through March 1st, 2025! Read all the details here!
The summer Polar CAP participants meet in person over 6 weeks July 7th & August 15th M-Th from 10am-3:30pm, some independent work a few Fridays. We will also have two Saturday outreach sessions with the public at Piermont Pier, Piermont, NY. APPLICATION FORM!
Check out these short videos, including What Scientists Say We Can Do to Fight Climate Change and more!
The Polar Climate Ambassadors are solutions-focused, creating this graphic and this list of what you can do in your life. Keep growing by adding your ideas!
Explore Thwaites Glacier by selecting a topic and interacting with a map and related data.
Polar Ambassador Video
GreenDrill Project Finds a Greenland That is Changing Rapidly
The GreenDrill Project is exporing when Greenland was last ice free by drilling through the ice to the bedrock below and using cosmogenic nuclide test to determine when the rock was last exposed to the atmosphere. The Polar Climate Ambassadors created a set of vidoes that focused on the scientists working on this project. You can find the videos on our youtube page. Here is a playlist selection to review!