As Antarctic Quest 21 draws to a close, the science team find time to send some video footage of what they have been doing.
Here is a friendly hello, where microplastic pollution expert Cat Cameron and meteorologist Martin Densham introduce themselves (I heard they had a fun time of many takes for this :))
Martin provides an overview of science projects and partners at Durham, Manchester, Plymouth and Utrecht universities.
Cat shows you how snow samples for microplastics are taken.
The team are now back at basecamp and can look back on taking 15 snow samples for microplastic analysis, more than 70 samples for metal analysis, numerous meteorological observations, some 60 patches exposed to daylight for UVB irradiation analysis and a dozen or so measurements of snow accumulation.
I am looking forward to seeing all the data and scientific discussion of their meaning over the coming months!
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