Reducing my online carbon footprint
It is one thing to be aware of the carbon emissions of online activities (running a website, internet searches, emails, social media, video/music streaming), yet quite another knowing how to reduce it.
It is one thing to be aware of the carbon emissions of online activities (running a website, internet searches, emails, social media, video/music streaming), yet quite another knowing how to reduce it.
Posted on February 28, 2022 by Dr Charlotte Braungardt
When the Royal Meteorological Society invited me to write a guest blog about the Antarctic Quest 21 expedition for their MetMatters page, I analysed the daily SitReps provided daily from the Antarctic Peninsula by expedition leader Paul Hart… Read More
Posted on February 18, 2022 by Dr Charlotte Braungardt
In his concluding situation report, Paul leaves it to others to judge whether Antarctic Quest 21 was a successful expedition. I’ll try to provide him with an answer for his Priority 3: Science
Posted on January 22, 2022 by Dr Charlotte Braungardt
The team safely back in Argentina and preparing to go their separate ways to rejoin families and pick up their lives back home, Paul find time for a concluding message.
Posted on January 21, 2022 by Dr Charlotte Braungardt
I have explained the background to the scientific projects we are supporting in a number of blog posts and on our website. Now I provid an insight into what ‘doing science’ on the ice actually entails, with the example of sampling… Read More
Posted on January 17, 2022 by Dr Charlotte Braungardt
Simon Newton’s short film of the start of the expedition is now available. See it here!
Posted on January 17, 2022 by Dr Charlotte Braungardt
As Antarctic Quest 21 draws to a close, the science team find time to send some video footage of what they have been doing.
Posted on January 16, 2022 by Dr Charlotte Braungardt
It was such fun to do this webinar for school kids from different ages and I was truly astonished what well-considered and pertinent questions I was asked. Well done, all of you! There was one question I couldn’t… Read More
Posted on January 14, 2022 by Dr Charlotte Braungardt
Antarctica, education, learning, resilience, Science
Antarctic Quest 21, atmosphere, carbon cycle, carbon pump, climate change, Environment, essential elements, expedition, food web, ice, ice balance, ice loss, isostatic rebound, metals, Microplastics, nutrients, ocean, Ocean Science, pollution, Shackleton, snow, Weddell Sea
The Antarctic Quest 21 expedition I’m supporting as scientific advisor has been beset by most arduous weather conditions – storms alternating with snow blizzards and zero visibility… Nevertheless, the team are in good spirit and ingenious in repairing… Read More
Posted on January 7, 2022 by Dr Charlotte Braungardt
The awareness of the carbon footprint of IT and online activity is increasing as a result of media reports, for example thought-provoking articles by the Royal Society, BBC Future and Carbonbrief.org However, ready-to-use carbon footprint calculators, including the… Read More
Posted on December 28, 2021 by Dr Charlotte Braungardt
Oh no (I hear you say) please, not another new story of contamination and its dreadful consequences! And yet…
Posted on December 21, 2021 by Dr Charlotte Braungardt
abundance, Angela Milne, Antarctic Quest 21, atmosphere, carbon pump, Cat Cameron, climate change, Environment, expedition, food web, limitation, Martin Densham, mitigation, nutrients, ocean, ocean circulation, ocean current, phytoplankton, pollution, primary productivity, regulation, Science, Simon Ussher, Southern Ocean, University of Plymouth, Weddell Sea, zooplankton
It snows on the Antarctic Peninsula. (Still :))
Posted on December 19, 2021 by Dr Charlotte Braungardt
Challenging Habitat