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Southern Ocean Research Expedition Goes Full Steam Ahead Despite Pandemic
Important krill research will be the focus of a team of scientists heading to East Antarctica on the research vessel Investigator.
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A team of 20 scientists from the Australian Antarctic Program left Hobart, Tasmania, today to spend two months working in the Southern Ocean off East Antarctica aboard the research vessel Investigator one of the few research missions over the past year that haven’t been canceled because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Their focus? Antarctic krill, which are the largest krill species globally. That puts them at the center of the Antarctic food web and makes them key players in the fight against climate change. But myriad stressors threaten krill, from warming waters and associated ocean acidification to concentrated industrial fishing in coastal areas in the Antarctic Peninsula fishing that is harming krill predators, including p
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Australian Antarctic Division
Australian Antarctic Program scientists will use a range of novel technologies to measure krill, during a ground-breaking voyage to the Southern Ocean that departs tomorrow.
Over the next two months the team on Research Vessel (RV) Investigator, operated by Australia’s science agency CSIRO, will use specially designed camera technologies, for the first time, to study krill and their environment; along with acoustics, trawls, predator observations, oceanography and genetics.
Voyage Chief Scientist, Dr So Kawaguchi, from the Australian Antarctic Division, said the team would determine how much krill (their ‘biomass’) live in waters off Mawson research station in East Antarctica, to ensure the sustainable development of a krill fishery in the region.
Massive 1600 square km iceberg breaks off Antarctica
By: PanARMENIAN.Net
A enormous
iceberg bigger than Los Angeles or
Greater London has separated from the Amery Ice Shelf in Antarctica, the largest to do so in more than half a century herunterladen. The table
iceberg, named D-28 by scientists, broke off the shelf in east
Antarctica on September 26. It measures 1636 square kilometres (632
square miles) in area, is 210 metres (689 feet) thick and weighs a
massive 315 billion tons insta profilbild downloaden. The iceberg will now be tracked because it
poses a potential hazard for shipping. Scientists from the
Australian Antarctic Program, Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies
These Are The Penguins That Don t Live In The Cold Shutterstock
By Debra Kelly/Jan. 19, 2021 9:37 am EDT
Some animals are awe-inspiring, some make us want to cuddle them endlessly, and some are just inherently funny. Penguins are definitely the latter they re flightless little birds who look like they re permanently dressed up for a night on the town, even though they re most famous for living in one of the most inhospitable places on the planet.
Antarctica isn t just cold, it s the kind of cold that makes your insides freeze as fast as your outsides. Aurora Expeditions says the average temperature across the continent which is also one of the driest and windiest places on the planet is a terrifying -70 degrees Fahrenheit. In the winter months, it gets down to -130 degrees Fahrenheit, and the summer maxes out at a not-so-balmy 46 degrees Fahrenheit.