Vision for Earth Day
Earth Day is celebrated sometime in April each year since the 1970s and in 2022, it’s Friday 22nd.
Seas Your Future Ocean Science Update
Back in January, Seas Your Future facilitated a fantastic opportunity for six young Scientists in Residence to carry out research project during a 12 day voyage on the Pelican of London along the Pacific Coast of Costa Rica…. Read More
Royal Meteorological Society
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
Expedition: Done ✓ The Science has only just started …
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
Concluding Message from the Antarctic Quest 21 Expedition Leader Paul Hart
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.
Looking back to the start of Antarctic Quest 21
Simon Newton’s short film of the start of the expedition is now available. See it here!
Antarctic Quest 21 – Team Science
As Antarctic Quest 21 draws to a close, the science team find time to send some video footage of what they have been doing.
Antarctic Quest 21 Science Reaches out to Schools with LikeToBe
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
Sailing and Science in Costa Rica
Our six Seas Your Future Scientists in Residence in Costa Rica have sailed the Pacific Coast off Puerto Rico for a few days now. You might imagine their work to be a breeze, more of a holiday really,… Read More
An Expedition beset by Gruelling Weather Conditions…
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
Our Online Carbon Footprint
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
Metals in the Snow
Oh no (I hear you say) please, not another new story of contamination and its dreadful consequences! And yet…
Challenging Habitat 