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Photo of Shakira Brown, right, and Howard Koss on a C-17 en route to Antarctica.

November 24, 2008

Shakira Brown, right, and Howard Koss on a C-17 flight en route to Antarctica.

Shakira Brown, right, a science teacher at New York's Harlem Children's Zone Promise Academy, and Howard Koss, a graduate student at Queens College, CUNY, on a C-17 flight from New Zealand to McMurdo Station in Antarctica as part of the Offshore New Harbor Project team. The project is conducting research into climate conditions over millions of years and participating in several outreach efforts that enable schools across the country to chart their progress.

Credit: Courtesy of Stephen Pekar, Queens College, CUNY.

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