Thornton Academy Postscripts Alumni Magazine Fall 2014 | Page 11

If you would like to share a
holiday or school vacation
with a Thornton Academy
student who comes from
one of more than 20
different countries, please
contact Jade Elliott at
602-4457 or jade.elliott@
thorntonacademy.org

Dan Frost spent his summer researching climate change in the
high Norwegian Arctic (and yes, that really is his last name)

Dan Frost doesn’t just read about climate change and marine biology, he dredges clams from
90 fathoms off the northern coast of Norway to study their tree-ring-like growth patterns
and surveys sand and gravel deposited by ancient glaciers as part of an NSF-funded team
research project. While a student at Bates College (class of 2005), Dan learned field science
in the Canadian Arctic; he hasn’t stopped heading for high latitudes sin