WE ARE EXTREMELY GRATFUL
TO:
Ms. Denise Waterbury, Mr. Scott Cole, Ms. Dori Cann and Dr. John Smiley of
the University of California's White Mountain Research Station for giving us
approval
to place the cold frame at Barcroft, and Mr. Tim Forsell for cooking
us
wonderful meals.
Dr. Joel Ransom and Mr. Chad Deplazes, extension agronomists at North Dakota State University, for sending us a particularly cold-hardy and short strain of winter wheat called CDC Falcon.
Dr. Dan Biggerstaff of WestBred, LLC and Dr. Fernando Guillen-Portal of Barkley AG Enterprises, LLP, for advice on choosing and obtaining cold-hardy crops to plant and for sending us camalina seed.
Dr. David Brenner, Curator in the U.S. National Plant Germplasm System, United States Department of Agriculture and Iowa State University, for sending us specially selected seeds of quinoa and chenopodium.
Dr. Dan Hane, agronomist at Oregon State University, for advice on selecting appropriate strains of potatoes.
Dr. John Bamberg, U.S. Potato Genebank, United States Department of Agriculture, Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin, for sending us cold-hardy potato stocks.
Mr. Brad Katuna and Mr. David Reid, Engineering Academy, Sir Francis Drake High School, for help with construction of the cold frame.
Dr. Patricia Holloway, School of Natrual Resources & Agricultural Sciences, University of Alaska at Fairbanks, for lots of valuable advice and suggestions on cold-climate horticulture.
Ms. Jennifer Upshaw and Mr. Alan Dep of the Marin Independent Journal for writing an article on the project.
Mr. Don Drake, our Principal, for his support and confidence in us.
This project is supported by generous grants from the Drake Fund, the Toshiba America Foundation, and the Amgen Corporation's Amgen Award for Science Teaching Excellence.
This project was inspired by a talk given at Drake High school in 2007 by Dr. Pascal Lee, Chariman of the Mars Institute, and Principal Investigator of the NASA Haughton Mars Project in the Canadian arctic.
Michael Wing is also indebted to the Toyota International Teacher Program for sending him on a study tour to the Galapagos Islands, which included a visit to a demonstration farm on Isla Santa Cruz. Many of the preliminary ideas about the project came to him during that trip.