News of EducaPoles
This section presents the latest news on the International Polar Foundation's educational activities and projects. It also contains general interest news on the polar regions, climate change and sustainable development for the educational world. Our RSS feeds will inform you when news are published on this website.
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Polarstern / CAML expedition: day of the Minkes
23.01.2007
Yesterday we left Larsen A, sailing towards the North-East, once more in magnificent light and with a sea as flat as a mirror. The ice conditions also continued to improve, so we arrived early this morning at our last sampling area, south of the "Antarctic Sound".
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Polarstern / CAML expedition: review of the CAML campaign
20.01.2007
The sea floor under ice shelves is extremely difficult to access. The fauna that exists there can only do so by feeding on what currents carry under the ice. When an ice shelf vanishes, the phenomenon also allows the return of light, phytoplankton, zooplankton and finally of the sea floor animals feeding on the "plankton rain". However, the return of this rich and diversified fauna so typical of Antarctic bottoms…
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Polarstern / CAML expedition: a glacial delay ...
10.01.2007
8th and 9th of January: if the Cape Petrels have now left us, Snow Petrels and Emperor Penguins are back. There are less icebergs, but sea ice gets denser and denser. And at the end of the afternoon, we entered a huge ice floe.
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Polarstern / CAML expedition: from Joinville Island to Larsen A
08.01.2007
Night of the 6th of January: end of a great day, with a remarkable last bottom trawl from the fish campaign, also yielding several big brittle stars with endless arms (starfish with tin and motile arms). We can finally set sail to Joinville Island and its surroundings islets, and enter the Antarctic Sound, the narrow stretch of water which separates the islands from the Peninsula.
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Polarstern / CAML expedition: amphipods captured !
04.01.2007
A traps-dedicated evening ! Christian prepares his fish traps to obtain the specimens he needs for his physiology research. Captured fish will be put in an aquarium for several days to recover from the stress of being caught. They will then be transferred to a "chamber", where a sophisticated device will measure their blood flow rate in various organs, at varying temperatures, with the aim to better understand their sensitivity…
