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: ice-fish, birds and ROV
30.12.2006
After the close of 2006 and 10 days of fishing near Elephant Island, we finally went south, off King George Island, the most "crowded" place in Antarctica (about ten stations!). As a daily routine, fish trawls land, one after another, on the deck. Like every day, "Antarctic Cods", or Notothenias, were found side by side with the legendary ice-fish.
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Polarstern / CAML expedition: Christmas whales
25.12.2006
Christmas was a celebration that felt strange when spent at sea, far away from loved ones. However, this didn't prevent the big Polarstern family from enjoying it as much as possible. After the traditional dinner, we all gathered together in the "Blue saloon" for a Christmas glass, following the captain's speech. But there was more, a choir practising for more than a week offered to the assembly a suite of…
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Polarstern / CAML expedition: 5 tons of antarctic cod and a few whales
22.12.2006
Only two days after fish stocks monitoring operations began near Elephant Island, we've already had a day to go down in the record books. Our first record was in term of whales: 13 whales were observed today, belonging to 3 different species. In detail, there were two Humpback Whales, famous for their huge "arms" and their spectacular leaps, as well as eight Fin Whales and three Sei Whales. Although less…
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Polarstern / CAML expedition: crossing of the Weddell Sea
21.12.2006
Finally, our journey from the East to the West of the Weddell Sea is coming to an end ... 8 days since we left Neumayer, the German station, 8 days in a sea ice light enough to avoid complex maneuvers, 8 days in the "grey", except for the day before yesterday, when we saw a bright sun above a sea as flat as a lake, perfect conditions for our whales…
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Polarstern / CAML expedition: the emperor penguin, star of the day
15.12.2006
Now that the unloading of the containers was under way, the researchers finally got the green light to visit the sea ice surrounding Polarstern. With a crane, small groups were lifted from the ship and placed on the ice. Four hours of exhilarating exploration followed: for most of us, it was the first opportunity to look at our ice-breaker in her "natural environment"... and at the same time to get…
