‘Pass the pool noodle’: the ordinary items doing extraordinary things for science at sea By Lucinda Duxbury, IMAS/ACEAS (University of Tasmania) and Joline Lalime, Sea2SchoolAU ‘Who’s seen the toothpicks?’ ‘Pass the pool noodle.’ From what we’re saying, you wouldn’t guess we’re in a floating lab in East Antarctica. And no, the pool noodles aren’t […]
Science and art meet in the Southern Ocean By Luca Magri, Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies/University of Tasmania and Joline Lalime, Sea2SchoolAU The Southern Ocean is an immense water mass. The way it moves directly affects how other water masses circulate all around the globe, shaping the resulting climate systems from the tropics to
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Sailing on the spectrum: an autistic perspective of life on a research voyage By Rebecca Knight, University of Exeter, UK In middle of the night, I jolt awake to the sound of a distant alarm. Is it an emergency? No, it’s just one of the many everyday sounds of living on a ship. I’d wear
Finding stranger things: catching a real-life ‘Demogorgon’ from the Antarctic deep By Kat Prata, James Cook University/Securing Antarctica’s Environment Future (JCU/SAEF), Sarah Jessop, Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies/University of Tasmania (IMAS/UTAS) and Joline Lalime, Sea2SchoolAU At first glance, you might think this strange-looking organism slipped through a fracture in space-time, perhaps via an Einstein-Rose
COOKIES wrap up: 55 Days in the Southern Ocean By Dr Linda Armbrecht, Australian Centre for Excellence in Antarctic Science/Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (University of Tasmania) and Joline Lalime, Sea2SchoolAU Fifty-five days in the Southern Ocean is long enough to lose track of which day it is, but not long enough to lose
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