Ocean Solstice
Today, I’m telling a kid’s story about summer solstice below the waves to make a bigger point about how the ocean ecosystem and seasons interact.
Antarctic Krill
I’ve written about Antarctic krill before, just around World Krill Day in 2022, and three years on, the international community is not much closer to protecting krill for krill’s sake, for ecosystem’s sake, for climate regulation‘s and all… Read More
Deep Ocean Fascination
It is National Marine Week and the Wildlife Trusts invite everyone to a multitude of events and actions around the country and to Sea the Connection we have with the ocean. Personally, it is the mysterious deep that… Read More
Plankton and Seaweed
Half of the oxygen that sustains life on Earth is produced in the ocean…
STEAM Education Link XI
Now here is a thought: Fishy breath, trampling and carnage are good things (in the right context).
Biodiversity – COP15
the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) state that around 50,000 wild species are used by humans through hunting, fishing, gathering, logging and harvesting, as well as observing. Around 20% of humanity rely on wild species for income and… Read More
STEAM Education Link V
Did you miss the first WORLD KRILL DAY on 11 August 2022?
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
What did the Team do for Science in the Ice?
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
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
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 