Tag: drift

The Tara Polar Station, on the front line of Arctic atlantification

Camille Lin

Oceanographer Benjamin Rabe plans to study the phenomenon of upwelling of warm water and nutrients already observed at the edges of the Arctic Ocean to see if it will extend towards the North Pole over the next decade. His project is based on the Tara Polar Station and its series of Polaris expeditions. An Interview.

Claudio Gonzalez - The history of Austral currents under a snail's shell

Camille Lin

Back from Macquarie Island, a marine biologist from Chile's Milenio Base Institute fulfills a scientific and personal dream by collecting rare specimens of mollusks.

Spiders have been around Antarctica for 9 million years

Camille Lin

Take a look under the rocks of the sub-Antarctic islands and you'll probably see a spider crawling out. A study shows that they were not introduced by explorers.

A23a, a giant iceberg adrift

Mirjana Binggeli