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A group of 20 scientists from New Zealand and abroad are about to head to the bottom of the world to study the impacts of climate change on Antarctica's Ross Sea. Political reporter Anneke Smith has more.

Summary: In this episode, host Robin Cline sits down with seasoned expedition leader Howard Whalen for an unparalleled exploration of the formidable waters and breathtaking landscapes of Antarctica. Howard, who brings decades of experience from both the Arctic and Antarctic, sheds light on the captivating challenges and awe-inspiring beauty that define journeys to the southernmost continent.Key Topics:Navigating the Drake Passage: Delve into the notorious Drake Passage's turbulent waters, known for their strong currents and changing ocean depths. Howard explains how specialized ships mitigate the rough crossings.Diverse Antarctic Routes: Learn about the various travel routes to Antarctica, including the famous Ushuaia to Antarctic Peninsula route, and the forthcoming trips aboard the new ship Aurora from Australia to the Ross Sea and East Antarctica.Seasonal Travel Variations: Discover how travel timings impact exploration possibilities, such as journeys later in the season allowing for ventures past the Antarctic Circle.Unique Antarctic Landscapes: Compare the Western Antarctic Peninsula's steep, picturesque terrains with the Eastern Weddell Sea's grand, ice-laden, and desert-like landscapes.Wildlife Encounters & Historical Sites: Highlight key wildlife hotspots, particularly South Georgia's teeming colonies of penguins and seals, and integrate striking historical narratives surrounding the Falkland Islands.Memorable Expeditions: Relive Howard's unforgettable experiences, including orca sightings and serendipitous fossil field explorations, emphasizing the spirit of discovery in expedition travel.Importance of Flexibility: Discuss the essential need for flexibility in polar expeditions due to unpredictable weather and ice conditions, and how it can lead to unexpected yet extraordinary experiences.Experience of Ice Formations: Admire the ethereal beauty of polar ice formations, with distinct sizes, colors, and sounds, offering a treasured and unique sensory experience.Air vs. Sea Travel to Antarctica: Analyze the pros and cons of flying to Antarctica versus crossing by sea, providing insights for travelers with varying time constraints.Personal Reflections:Howard's Professional Journey: Learn about Howard's unique career trajectory, from journalism at Australian Geographic to leading polar expeditions, and the milestones that shaped his path.Thanks for joining us on today's episode of The Intrepid Traveler podcast! If you enjoyed today's episode, please rate and review our show to help us reach even more aspiring travelers. Don't forget to check out our website, visit us on Facebook, Instagram or follow us on LinkedIn to stay up-to-date on our latest epic travel adventures! Use the following links when planning your own travel!TRAVEL INSURED INTERNATIONALMEDJETVIRTUOSOPROJECT EXPEDITION

This week, Elise (IG: @elise_the_mermaid) chats with Rose Leeger (IG: @researcherose), a Nova Southeastern University alum, 3-time NOAA intern, and current PhD student at University of Colorado Boulder in the Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research. Topics covered include Rose's research experience which spans oysters, penguins, the Antarctic toothfish (aka Chilean sea bass), and more! We also discuss how Rose's interdisciplinary work relates to the Antarctic Treaty and the largest Marine Protected Area in the world, the Ross Sea. Main point: Find your superpower! Get in touch with us! The Fisheries Podcast is on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram: @FisheriesPod  Become a Patron of the show: https://www.patreon.com/FisheriesPodcast Buy podcast shirts, hoodies, stickers, and more: https://teespring.com/stores/the-fisheries- podcast-fan-shop Thanks as always to Andrew Gialanella for the fantastic intro/outro music. The Fisheries Podcast is a completely independent podcast, not affiliated with a larger organization or entity. Reference to any specific product or entity does not constitute an endorsement or recommendation by the podcast. The views expressed by guests are their own and their appearance on the program does not imply an endorsement of them or any entity they represent. Views and opinions expressed by the hosts are those of that individual and do not necessarily reflect the view of any entity that those individuals are affiliated in other capacities (such as employers).  

A team of New Zealand scientists has just returned from studying the sea ice factories in Antarctica, in a joint expedition with Italy

Mong-Han Huang, University of Maryland The Ross Ice Shelf (RIS) in Antarctica is the largest ice shelf in the world. As the RIS flows toward the Ross Sea, a buildup of tensile stress due to increasing ice flow velocity develops a series of flow-perpendicular rift zones. Although these rifts are essential in contributing to future calving and reduction in size of the ice shelf, their material properties and mechanical response to external stress in the rift zone scale (~10-100 km) are poorly understood, partly due to a lack of high spatial-temporal scale in-situ observations to characterize key rift processes. Using a deployment of seismometers and GPS stations from the NSF DRRIS project and recently by our team, we further explore the link between seismicity, tidal cycles, and air temperature at two rifts of different ages. We found that icequakes along the major rift zones on RIS are modulated with the oscillating tidal stressing rate, and icequakes have a stronger modulation with stress rate in older rifts. We adopted the theory proposed by Heimisson and Avouac (2020) about seismicity rate due to oscillating stresses for icequakes. On RIS, the characteristic time scale from elevated icequake seismicity rate to background rate is much shorter than the periodicity of the tidal stresses, and therefore the seismicity rate is proportional to the stressing rate. This also suggests that how stress varies in time, rather than the total quantity of stress, has a higher contribution to brittle fractures in ice shelves. Constraining the current behavior of ice shelf rifts and their modulation by oscillating stresses will help inform their future stability in a changing climate.

rWotD Episode 2481: Southern Cross Expedition Welcome to random Wiki of the Day where we read the summary of a random Wikipedia page every day.The random article for Sunday, 18 February 2024 is Southern Cross Expedition.The Southern Cross Expedition, otherwise known as the British Antarctic Expedition, 1898–1900, was the first British venture of the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration, and the forerunner of the more celebrated journeys of Robert Falcon Scott and Ernest Shackleton. The brainchild of the Anglo-Norwegian explorer Carsten Borchgrevink, it was the first expedition to over-winter on the Antarctic mainland, the first to visit the Great Ice Barrier—later known as the Ross Ice Shelf—since Sir James Clark Ross's groundbreaking expedition of 1839 to 1843, and the first to effect a landing on the Barrier's surface. It also pioneered the use of dogs and sledges in Antarctic travel.The expedition was privately financed by the British magazine publisher Sir George Newnes. Borchgrevink's party sailed in the Southern Cross, and spent the southern winter of 1899 at Cape Adare, the northwest extremity of the Ross Sea coastline. Here they carried out an extensive programme of scientific observations, although opportunities for inland exploration were restricted by the mountainous and glaciated terrain surrounding the base. In January 1900, the party left Cape Adare in Southern Cross to explore the Ross Sea, following the route taken by Ross 60 years earlier. They reached the Great Ice Barrier, where a team of three made the first sledge journey on the Barrier surface, during which a new Farthest South record latitude was established at 78° 50′S.On its return to Britain the expedition was coolly received by London's geographical establishment exemplified by the Royal Geographical Society, which resented the pre-emption of the pioneering Antarctic role they envisaged for the Discovery Expedition. There were also questions about Borchgrevink's leadership qualities, and criticism of the limited extent of scientific results. Thus, despite the number of significant "firsts", Borchgrevink was never accorded the heroic status of Scott or Shackleton, and his expedition was soon forgotten in the dramas which surrounded these and other Heroic Age explorers. However, Roald Amundsen, conqueror of the South Pole in 1911, acknowledged that Borchgrevink's expedition had removed the greatest obstacles to Antarctic travel, and had opened the way for all the expeditions that followed.This recording reflects the Wikipedia text as of 00:07 UTC on Sunday, 18 February 2024.For the full current version of the article, see Southern Cross Expedition on Wikipedia.This podcast uses content from Wikipedia under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License.Visit our archives at wikioftheday.com and subscribe to stay updated on new episodes.Follow us on Mastodon at @wikioftheday@masto.ai.Also check out Curmudgeon's Corner, a current events podcast.Until next time, I'm Brian Standard.

Boulder native and wildlife photographer John Weller talks about his efforts to save The Ross Sea in Antarctica.  The Ross Sea is the world's largest Marine Protected Area.   Weller's photobooks and documentary films have been a big part of explaining why this area is special, and why protecting it is a crucial part of … Continue reading "John Weller – Saving Antarctica"

The South Pole, what an adventure ! In 1911, the Norwegian Roald Amundsen was the first to reach it. A few years later, the Irishman Ernest Shackleton decided to cross the Antarctic continent from end to end, from the Weddell Sea to the Ross Sea : 1800 miles on his dogsled...

Australian Antarctic Division alumnus, Jeff Wilson, recounts his experiences at Australian stations and in the Ross Sea. Road trip with our eldest. Good company at Anglesea. Good food. Good audio. One of the best days 2023 offered up.

Ernest Shackleton was a British explorer who led the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition in 1914-1917. The primary goal of the expedition was to be the first to cross the entire continent of Antarctica on foot, from the Weddell Sea to the Ross Sea, via the South Pole.Shackleton and his crew set sail aboard the ship Endurance in August 1914. However, their journey was ill-fated from the beginning. Shortly after their arrival in Antarctica, the Endurance became trapped in pack ice in the Weddell Sea. The crew spent months trapped in the ice, hoping that the ship would be released by the shifting ice.As the Antarctic winter set in, it became clear that the Endurance would not be freed from the ice. Shackleton and his crew abandoned the ship in October 1915 as it was slowly crushed by the pressure of the ice. They camped on the ice floes and, when those began to break up, launched their lifeboats to reach the relatively safer Elephant Island.Elephant Island was a remote and inhospitable place, and it was clear that rescue was unlikely. Recognizing the dire situation, Shackleton and a small crew set off in one of the lifeboats, the James Caird, on a perilous journey across the treacherous Southern Ocean to reach South Georgia Island, where they knew there was a whaling station.After a harrowing 16-day journey, Shackleton and his crew reached South Georgia Island in May 1916. They then had to cross the island's rugged interior to reach the whaling station on the other side. Eventually, Shackleton organized a rescue mission to Elephant Island, and all of his men were successfully rescued in August 1916, nearly two years after their initial departure.Remarkably, despite their incredible hardships and suffering, Shackleton and his crew managed to survive without any loss of life. Their endurance, teamwork, and Shackleton's leadership in the face of extreme adversity have made this expedition one of the most celebrated stories of Antarctic exploration. Shackleton's leadership and his unwavering commitment to the safety and well-being of his men are often cited as examples of exceptional leadership and determination.(commercial at 7:56)to contact me:bobbycapucci@protonmail.comThis show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/5080327/advertisement

Ernest Shackleton was a British explorer who led the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition in 1914-1917. The primary goal of the expedition was to be the first to cross the entire continent of Antarctica on foot, from the Weddell Sea to the Ross Sea, via the South Pole.Shackleton and his crew set sail aboard the ship Endurance in August 1914. However, their journey was ill-fated from the beginning. Shortly after their arrival in Antarctica, the Endurance became trapped in pack ice in the Weddell Sea. The crew spent months trapped in the ice, hoping that the ship would be released by the shifting ice.As the Antarctic winter set in, it became clear that the Endurance would not be freed from the ice. Shackleton and his crew abandoned the ship in October 1915 as it was slowly crushed by the pressure of the ice. They camped on the ice floes and, when those began to break up, launched their lifeboats to reach the relatively safer Elephant Island.Elephant Island was a remote and inhospitable place, and it was clear that rescue was unlikely. Recognizing the dire situation, Shackleton and a small crew set off in one of the lifeboats, the James Caird, on a perilous journey across the treacherous Southern Ocean to reach South Georgia Island, where they knew there was a whaling station.After a harrowing 16-day journey, Shackleton and his crew reached South Georgia Island in May 1916. They then had to cross the island's rugged interior to reach the whaling station on the other side. Eventually, Shackleton organized a rescue mission to Elephant Island, and all of his men were successfully rescued in August 1916, nearly two years after their initial departure.Remarkably, despite their incredible hardships and suffering, Shackleton and his crew managed to survive without any loss of life. Their endurance, teamwork, and Shackleton's leadership in the face of extreme adversity have made this expedition one of the most celebrated stories of Antarctic exploration. Shackleton's leadership and his unwavering commitment to the safety and well-being of his men are often cited as examples of exceptional leadership and determination.(commercial at 7:56)to contact me:bobbycapucci@protonmail.comThis show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/5003294/advertisement

Just back from navigating through retreating Antarctic ice, Dr Joshu Mountjoy tells Susie what's been discovered in uncharted territory.

Episode 131In episode 131 we answer a listener question from Richard about Union Castle Line, another from Carly about Carnival Luminosa. Chris challenges Baz with another Fact or Ficton and of course the latest wrap up of the cruise news. Thank you to John for your recent coffee donations and Garry S in Sydney for the images of Island Princess in Sydney as part of her World Cruise. Support the showListen, Like, Subscribe & Review on your favourite podcast directory.Share the podcast with someone you think will enjoy the showBuy Me A Coffee – This podcast is only possible thanks to our supporters, simply buying a coffee keeps us on air. 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Baz, Chris, what are your thoughts?Cruise NewsWindstar Cruises to Launch High-Speed Starlink Internet Across Global Fleet   Windstar Cruises has announced the launch of its Starlink Maritime high-speed, advanced broadband satellite internet capabilities. Already connecting the world by sea, Windstar Cruises will provide guests one of the most developed high-speed connections in the world both while sailing and when in port.Windstar launched the new Wi-Fi technology on Star Pride during a recent Caribbean voyage and plans to implement Starlink across most of its global fleet by mid-2023. Star Legend will offer the service this spring, followed by Wind Surf, Wind Star, and Star Breeze. Wind Spirit will activate the new technology as soon as it's available in French Polynesia.Currently, all Windstar Cruises use geostationary satellite service, Anuvu, for internet services. The addition of Starlink technology will amplify Anuvu, delivering more reliable and faster internet to Windstar's guests. Starlink is the world's first and largest satellite constellation with a low Earth orbit using lasers so communication can happen further away from ground based stations.Starlink will be available on select Windstar voyages where the service is active; not all global destinations are available. maritime-coverage-map.pdf (starlink.com)World's only luxury icebreaker Le Commandant Charcot arrives in New Zealand for the first timePonant's Le Commandant Charcot was welcomed into New Zealand waters, the halfway point of a round Antarctic journey from Argentina, marking the first time the world's only luxury icebreaker has sailed the antipodes.After the overnight stop in Lyttelton, on the eastern coast of New Zealand's South Island, the polar high exploration vessel, which is the only of its kind in the world, today sets off on the reverse itinerary. The ship will retrace its path all the way to Ushuaia, taking travellers on a half-circumnavigation of Antarctica via the Ross Sea, the world's largest protected marine area.Eco-designed and at the cutting-edge of technology, Le Commandant Charcot is the most ground-breaking ship in the Ponant fleet with its hybrid electric Liquid Natural Gas (LNG) propulsion system, a major innovation aligned with the company's commitment to sustainable tourism.The Polar Class – PC2 ship was designed with the highest attention in mind in terms of safety, comfort and respect for the environment in order to sail and explore the extreme and far-reached territories of the Arctic and the Antarctic, in complete self-sufficiency. Certified ‘Cleanship' by Bureau Veritas, Le Commandant Charcot displays the latest green technologies onboard including waste recycling and sewage management.Carnival's Largest Vow Renewal at SeaValentine's Day, thousands of couples are symbolically renewing their vows, while sailing on Carnival Cruise Line voyages, during special onboard ceremonies virtually officiated by Chief Fun Officer Shaquille O'Neal. Altogether, the fleetwide event will mark Carnival's largest-ever Vow Renewal at Sea.Across Carnival's fleet, couples are taking part in onboard ceremonies while the ships are at sea and docked in beautiful destinations, including Nassau; Puerto Vallarta, Cozumel; Grand Turk; and St. Maarten.An onboard reception follows each ceremony, with a DJ, dancing and a champagne toast honoring the newly renewed couples and wishing love and happiness for all.SeaDream Calls on Monte Carlo During the May 2024 Monaco Grand PrixEmbrace an opportunity that may never come again. During SeaDream's 7-day Southern Spain & the French Riviera voyage, SeaDream I drops anchor off Monte Carlo's playful yachting harbor during the Formula 1 Monaco Grand Prix, one of the world's most iconic motor-racing events—offering guests the opportunity to attend this once-in-a-lifetime dramatic display. In keeping with the SeaDream spirit of discovery, they have created a Yachting Land Adventure (YLA) cantered on the Grand Prix, guaranteed to deliver the thrill of smoking engines, expert moves between F1 drivers, and screeching tires for guests eager to embrace the winding seafront streets of Monte Carlo from another perspective.The Automobile Club de Monaco recently announced that 2025 may be the last year the prestigious auto race is held in Monte Carlo, potentially making the experience unable to be replicated in this destination.Celebrity Becomes First Forbes Travel Guide Star Rated Cruise LineCelebrity Cruises, the brand that revolutionised the cruising industry with its fleet of Relaxed Luxury resorts at sea, is once again raising the bar as it becomes the first ocean cruise line to ever earn prestigious Forbes Travel Guide (“FTG”) Star Awards. The recognition is made more wonderful as Celebrity's ships join an elite and exclusive group of fewer than 20 land-based properties with over 1,000 rooms in the world to ever receive the coveted recognition.FTG is the global authority on luxury hospitality and the only global rating system for luxury hotels, restaurants, spas and now, the new ocean cruise category. Their professional inspectors travel the world to anonymously evaluate the finest hotels, restaurants, spas, and ocean cruise ships based on hundreds of exacting standards that determine their annual Star Ratings.The five inaugural resorts at sea Star-Rated ships are Celebrity Apex, Celebrity Edge, Celebrity Flora, Celebrity Millennium and Celebrity Summit. The remainder of the line's 15-ship fleet will be evaluated in the year ahead, except for the line's smaller Galapagos ships.The newly Star-rated Celebrity ships represent three of the line's class of ships, including:Edge Series – As avant-garde as the name implies, these ships have been hailed as architectural masterpieces, introducing a plethora of industry firsts on a cruise ship, such as an outward-facing resort deck, the world's first cantilevered floating bar known as the The Magic Carpet®, luxurious new state rooms like the two-story Edge Villas with private plunge pools, and more. Celebrity ApexSM (2021) and Celebrity Edge® (2018) remain among the most highly awarded ships at sea, even being named to TIME Magazine's “World's Greatest Places.”Millennium Series – Offering a more intimate cruising experience with just over 1,000 staterooms each, both Celebrity Millennium®and Celebrity Summit®were part of the line's biggest fleet-wide modernisation in 2019, with more than $500 million in luxurious upgrades made.Mega-Yacht – Celebrity Flora® is an exclusive 100-passenger luxury mega-yacht designed specifically and purposefully for expeditions in the Galapagos and built to merge with its surroundings. With all-natural materials, she introduced a state-of-the-art positioning system allowing the ship to remain stationary without dropping anchors to further protect the seabed and solar panels making it one of the most eco-friendly ships sailing anywhere. Fully immersing travellers with the destination, all itineraries are led by certified naturalists from the Galapagos Natural Park.A-ROSA will offer included excursion from 2023In the 2023 season, the upgraded Premium All Inclusive fare offers guests on A-ROSA ships even more individuality, flexibility and locality. An included excursion with a culinary evening experience on board will be an added new element allowing guests to experience a destination with all their senses.For a more intimate discovery of the cities visited, all guests on voyages of 7 nights or longer can join an excursion, which is already included in the price of the cruise. The excursions are guided city tours in destinations such as the Slovak capital Bratislava, the futuristic Linz or the old papal residence Avignon. Along the Rhine, guests can discover Koblenz, Hoorn, Dordrecht or Bernkastel-Kues together with a guide, whereas Seine departures will offer an opportunity to follow Richard the Lionheart's tracks in Les Andelys. During the included excursions, the focus is on experiencing the respective destination and country. Valuable knowledge about its people, life and history can be learned. Thanks to central berths, the informative tours will usually start in the city centre.Complemented are these excursions by a culinary evening on board, also entirely dedicated to the region. Starting with an aperitif and canapés in the A-ROSA Lounge, all guests can then enjoy a gourmet buffet with many local specialities in the Market Restaurant.Service Dog Earns Top Pooch Status with Carnival Carnival Cruise Line has a unique new member joining the top ranks of its loyalty club – a retired U.S. Army service dog named Sarge.While sailing on Carnival Celebration last week, Sarge reached Diamond status of the Very Important Fun Person (VIFP) Club – though in this case, the “P” could also stand for “pooch.”The 14-year-old Belgian Malinois just completed his 55th cruise and was honoured during Carnival Celebration's Platinum and Diamond loyalty event, for spending more than 200 nights at sea.Sarge spent most of his life serving in the military, and now lives and travels with his owner, Justin Marcum, Sr., who is also a Diamond member of Carnival's VIFP Club.Carnival's VIFP Club offers a variety of exciting benefits and perks to the line's most loyal guests. 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An Italian ship in waters near Antarctica has sailed further south than any ship has done before. The ship was able to make it so far south because of an unusual lack of ice in the Antarctic.↳ The ship, called the Laura Bassi, made it into the Bay of Whales in the Ross Sea. The location was confirmed by Italy's Institute of Oceanography and Applied Geophysics. The Laura Bassi is carrying scientists researching in the Antarctic. Franco Sedmak is the ship's captain. He expressed both happiness and sadness when he spoke with Italy's ANSA news agency.南极洲附近海域的一艘意大利船只比以往任何船只都向南航行得更远。由于南极异常缺冰，这艘船能够一直向南航行。↳ 这艘名为劳拉·巴西 (Laura Bassi) 的船驶入了罗斯海的鲸鱼湾。该位置得到了意大利海洋学和应用地球物理学研究所的确认。 Laura Bassi 载着在南极进行研究的科学家。 Franco Sedmak 是这艘船的船长。他在接受意大利安莎通讯社采访时表达了快乐和悲伤。"I am happy with setting a record, but at the same time I am sad to see that things are really changing here in Antarctica and in the world in general," he said. Sedmak attempted a similar trip in 2017 but could not make it as far because the ice was too thick. He said this time, there was much less ice. "I never thought that I would find such a melting of the ice after a few years to be able to go as far south as we managed this year,” Sedmak said.他说：“我很高兴能创下纪录，但同时我也很难过看到南极洲和整个世界的情况正在发生真正的变化。” Sedmak 曾在 2017 年尝试过一次类似的旅行，但由于冰层太厚而未能走得那么远。他说这次冰少了很多。塞德马克说：“我从没想过几年后我会发现冰层融化，能够像我们今年那样向南走。”Satellite images in 2022 showed the area around Antarctica is losing ice very quickly. Researchers on the ship are studying water temperatures and the health of fish in the area. They took samples as far down as 216 meters to help them get a better understanding of the sea currents. Early results show that the water remained extremely cold and that there is still a large number of young fish.2022 年的卫星图像显示南极洲周围地区的冰层正在迅速流失。船上的研究人员正在研究该地区的水温和鱼类的健康状况。他们采集了深达 216 米的样本，以帮助他们更好地了解海流。初步结果显示，水仍然非常冷，还有大量的幼鱼。

"As soon as I heard the sounds of the Ross seals, they reminded me of recordings of space weather radio waves that are made audible through the use of ground-based radio receivers. This so-called ‘natural radio' from the Earth's magnetosphere can be caused by space weather phenomena, like solar winds, as well as lightning, and even the auroras - the Northern & Southern lights. Combining the ethereal sounds of the Ross seal with the aural chorus of natural radio, the composition seeks to draw together the far-flung locales of the Ross Sea, which is the southernmost sea on Earth, and the Earth's magnetosphere, the magnetic field surrounding our home planet. Through sonic alchemy, I seek the merging of the magnetic south with the magnetosphere. "I hope this composition conjures a vision of small, big-eyed Ross seals swimming through a sky lit by the aurora, communing and communicating with mammals and solar winds alike. I imagine that their particular cadence and whirling pitches are conversant with the audible radio waves of space. Perhaps the unique fluency of the Ross seal is that it speaks a language that is both aquatic and celestial. It speaks to both the depths of the sky and the depths of the sea. "Knowing that in actuality the Ross seals live in a mostly inaccessible part of the Antarctic, I imagine them swimming beneath the ice, living their lives, impervious to the impact of humanity on their habitat. But given the reality of a rapidly warming world, I was driven to envision an alternative to the image of the melting of the ice shelf putting them in peril. So, that's why I decided to take the sounds of the Ross seal to a new location - someplace with an eternal quality - an imaginary celestial refuge where they can swim freely without impact from warming seas. "I created this piece in Reaper. I purchased royalty free recordings by long-time recorder of the magnetosphere, Stephen P. McGreevy, and mixed in the sounds with the Ross seal recording. I created 4 tracks of the number 017 Ross seal field recording, and added different effects to each track, including reverb, delay, distortion, compressor and EQ. There are multiple tracks of natural radio, including the crackle of lightning, the whine of whistlers and the voice of the earth chorus. The piece is underlain by waves - ocean waves, sound waves and the audible radio waves of the magnetosphere.  All of these ethereal sounds seemed likely to make the recording float away, so it's anchored with a bass line melody that aims to ground the piece in a feeling of exploration, but also of comfort - because after all, as otherworldly as these sounds may seem, they are all part of our home planet." Ross seal reimagined by Elizabeth LoGiudice. Part of the Polar Sounds project, a collaboration between Cities and Memory, the Helmholtz Institute for Functional Marine Biodiversity (HIFMB) and the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI). Explore the project in full at http://citiesandmemory.com/polar-sounds. 

A team of NIWA scientists will board the research vessel Tangaroa today for a six-week voyage to Antarctica. Their mission is to better understand the ecosystem and ocean physics in the Ross Sea, as well as assess the impacts of climate change. Lauren Crimp spoke with some of the team getting ready for the adventure.

This week's critter is the Antarctic sea pig - a rotund pink sea cucumber that lives on the muddy seafloor of the Ross Sea. Sea pigs are like living vacuum cleaners for the ocean. They spend their days ambling about on their many legs, hoovering up delicious decaying matter with their feathery tentacles.

Lewis Pugh has swum across seas and in between melting sea ice, but the hardest part of his work is what comes after – contributing to negotiations to protect those same bodies from development. And he's been successful: In 2016 he got the Russians to sign a pact to create a marine protected area in the Ross Sea – one of the few healthy seas left, and the size of Britain, France, Germany, Italy put together. A negotiation should be an exploration, not a battle, he tells Akshat Rathi. Pugh also talks about how he got his start, the swim that made him into an environmental advocate and what he wants to come out of COP27. Akshat speaks with Salma El Wardany, a Bloomberg News energy and commodities reporter based in Cairo, and Zero producer Oscar Boyd, about their experiences of COP27. Read a transcript of this episode, here. Zero is a production of Bloomberg Green. Our producer is Oscar Boyd and our senior producer is Christine Driscoll. Special thanks to Kira Bindrim and Stacey Wong. Thoughts or suggestions? Email us at zeropod@bloomberg.net. For more coverage of climate change and solutions, visit https://www.bloomberg.com/greenSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Antarctica New Zealand has recently deployed new underwater robots to document the bottom of the ross sea.  The new robots conduct “speed-sampling” , a new style of sampling allowing quick capturing of areas regular divers cannot receive.  These robots are being deployed in efforts to understand as much of the ross sea as possible, before the changing climate makes that task impossible.  Liam had a kōrero with MIles Lamar, an investigator on the Antarctica New Zealand programme, about the robot and the climate.  

New Zealand's Antarctic scientists are using underwater robots to survey the seafloor of the Ross Sea. Through videos and specimens collected by the robots, they want to understand how climate change has impacted the marine ecosystems in Antarctica. Antarctic Science Platform ecology research programme leader Dr Ian Hawes spoke to Corin Dann.

'Plankton" consists of phytoplankton (~plants) and zooplankton (-animals). It represents the basis of the ocean food chain and it includes many species; it's a very complex 'multi-species soup' representing a true science frontier hardly tackled, understood or managed yet. Copepods are part of that taxonomic set up and they contribute usually to the majority - up to 70% - of zooplankton abundance in oceans. Using field data of the Italian National Antarctic Program from the 1980s and 1990s here we model-predict in an interdisciplinary international team effort for 26 copepod species at three ocean depth classes (0-10m, 11-70m, 71-750m) the relative index of occurrence (RIO) for the wider study area of the Ross Sea Region Marine Protected Area (a world-record MPA and ocean wilderness area of global size and relevance). This research uses Machine Learning/AI ensembles and Open Source Geographic Information System (GIS) methods to generalize from the Open Access dataset available from the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF.org) using the 'Macroscope predictors' (see Huettmann et al. 2015 for details, source and use). Further details are provided in Grillo et al. (2022; compare also with Pinkerton et al. 2010). This work matters as a global workflow template and it allows to obtain 3D models in GIS for plankton abundance, e.g. as needed for foraging estimates of marine mammals, penguins and fisheries. It can also be used for life-history research, carbon sequestration work in climate models as well as for baselines in carrying capacity formulas for fisheries and generic predator-prey studies. The relevance of sound harvest models for krill and fish, e.g. in the so-called 'experimental' fisheries work with CCAMLR and the MPA in the Ross Sea has been outlined by Ainley et al. (2012) and others. Here we offer a solution towards sustainability in times of a generic ocean crisis. References (selection; in order of citation) Grillo M, F. Huettmann, L. Guglielmo and S. Schiaparelli (2022) Three-Dimensional Quantification of Copepods Predictive Distributions in the Ross Sea: First Data Based on a Machine Learning Model Approach and Open Access (FAIR) Data. Diversity 14:355. https://doi.org/10.3390/d14050355 Huettmann, F., M.S. Schmid, and G.R.W. Humphries (2015) A First Overview of Open Access Digital Data for the Ross Sea: Complexities, Ethics, and Management Opportunities. Hydrobiologia 2015, 761, 97–119. Pinkerton, M. H., A.N. Smith, B. Raymond, G.W. Hosie, B. Sharp, J.R. Leathwick and J.M. Bradford-Grieve (2010). Spatial and seasonal distribution of adult Oithona similis in the Southern Ocean: predictions using boosted regression trees. Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers 57: 469-485. Ainley, D.G., C.M. Brooks, J.T. Eastman and M. Massaro (2012) Unnatural Selection of Antarctic Toothfish in the Ross Sea, Antarctica. In Protection of the Three Poles; Springer: Berlin/Heidelberg, Germany, pp. 53–75.0 (Photo credit: Andrei Savitsky - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=78800127) --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/falk-huettmann/support

Episode 91In Episode 91, Chris discusses the historical changes to the Cunard Logo and Livery and we delve deep in to the latest cruise news from around the world.RMS Caronia (ca. 1956) (colorized)https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:RMS_Caronia_(ca._1956)_(colorized).jpgThis file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license.Support the showListen, Like, Subscribe & Review on your favourite podcast directory.Share the podcast with someone you think will enjoy the showBuy Me A Coffee – This podcast is only possible thanks to our supporters, simply buying a coffee keeps us on air. It is just like shouting your mate a coffee, and we consider our listeners close mates. https://bit.ly/2T2FYGXSustainable Fashion – choose a TBCP design or design your own… all using organic cotton, green energy and zero plastic https://bit.ly/32G7RdhSupport Chris in his walk from Cape to Cape: All donations support zero2hero empowering young people to deal with mental health.  https://donate.mycause.com.au/cause/263123?donateToMember=156839Cruise NewsCarnival Donates $50,000 to Ukrainian Relief EffortsCarnival Cruise Line today marked a half a century since its maiden voyage from PortMiami with a celebration aboard Carnival Conquest. Carnival Cruise Line President Christine Duffy was joined by Carnival Corp. Chairman Micky Arison and Carnival Corp. CEO Arnold Donald; U.S. Representatives Frederica Wilson and Vern Buchanan; Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava; Doral Mayor Juan Carlos Bermudez; Miami industry and community leaders; as well as Carnival leadership.At the event, Carnival announced a $50,000 donation to World Central Kitchen to support Ukrainian relief efforts and in the name of its more than 300 team members from the country. Duffy also presented a $50,000 donation to Carnival's long-standing partner Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Miami. Mayor Levine Cava presented Duffy with a commemorative gift marking the occasion and Mayor Bermudez read a proclamation declaring March 11, 2022 as Carnival Cruise Line Day in Doral. Carnival currently employs more than 40,000 team members from 120 nationalities. As America's Cruise Line and the flagship brand of Carnival Corporation, Carnival has made cruising accessible and fun for more than 90 million passengers since its inception. Each year, approximately six million passengers set sail on 23 ships from 14 U.S. homeports and call on popular international destinations.In addition to today's party in Miami, Carnival's year-long 50th birthday celebrations included 17 commemorative Sailabrations cruises that featured at-sea ship meetups, special entertainment and programming.AND…As part of Carnival Cruise Line's year-long 50th birthday festivities and its Sailabrations cruises in the U.S, seven ships – Carnival Breeze, Carnival Ecstasy, Carnival Glory, Mardi Gras, Carnival Pride, Carnival Sunrise and Carnival Vista – met up near Cozumel yesterday for one of the biggest birthday parties at sea.During the meetup, each cruise ship hosted their own party on the Lido deck, where guests joined the Cruise Director, Playlist Productions cast and the ship's DJ for a birthday party complete with music and entertainment. Guests also participated in the biggest Ship-Tok at sea, where the ships' Cruise Directors and Fun Squads taught and led a choreographed dance inspired by Carnival's 50th birthday. Don't buy us a coffee this week instead… A HOTEL IN KYIV IS USING DONATIONS FROM AIRBNB TO DELIVER 15,000 MEALS A DAY DESPITE CONSTANT AIR RAID SIRENS AND MILITARY ATTACKS ON THE UKRAINIAN CAPITAL.£22,830 ($AUD40,628) has been donated to Campus Community A-Hotel in the city centre to keep their kitchen open and cook for military personnel, orphanages, nursing homes, and hospitals in Kyiv.The hotel is situated above a bomb shelter where an internet company set up online education for children in the shelter.“When the (sirens start), people can easily go downstairs and stay safe in the bomb shelter,” Gabovich said.“The guys from the internet company are doing a great job. They support all the connection so teachers from one shelter can teach children in another shelter.”The rooms at the hotel cost between £7-10 ($AUD12-18) per night and the cost of meals, medicine, and shipment fees to transport the food are covered.To donate to the Campus Community A-Hotel via Airbnb click HERE.Oceania World Cruise Record…Oceania Cruises, announced that the 2024 Around the World in 180 Days voyage aboard Insignia sold out within 30 minutes of opening for sale on March 2nd. In conjunction with the world cruise, the company also launched four new 72- to 82-day Grand Voyages in the Asia-Pacific region aboard Regatta, Nautica, and Riviera. The sell-out of the six-month-long world cruise and the enthusiastic response to the four Asia-Pacific voyages resulted in a new single-day booking record that surpasses the previous record set in September 2021 by almost 12%. JLo Partners with Virgin Voyages Entertainer Jennifer Lopez, has joined Virgin Voyages as an investor, with the singer to also serve as the cruise line's Chief Entertainment & Lifestyle Officer. With Jennifer Lopez on deck, the glamor, the energy, and the creativity just amped up, and they have unbelievable plans on the horizon.Virgin said it is “redefining” the nautical tradition of appointing a godmother from a ceremonial role to a modern, “change-making partnership”.Princess Cruises Celebrates the Madrina of Discovery PrincessPrincess Cruises recently celebrated and honoured the Discovery Princess Madrina – Hotel General Manager Terri Cybuliak – currently serving onboard Sky Princess, leading a team of 1,200 crew members within the hotel department. Her main role is to ensure exceptional guest experience from entertainment to food and beverage, housekeeping, and guest services.  Terri first joined Princess in 1998 as a Junior Assistant Purser on the original Crown Princess. As Hotel General Manager, Terri helped launch Majestic Princess in China and was heavily engaged in the planning of that ship. With Sky Princess, Terri became the first female Hotel General Manager at Princess to launch a newbuild from a shipyard. Discovery Princess was delivered on January 28, 2022, at the Fincantieri Shipyard in Monfalcone, Italy. The 3,660-guest Discovery Princess is the sixth and final Royal-Class newbuild and shares all the spectacular style and luxury of her sister ships – Enchanted Princess℠, Sky Princess®, Majestic Princess℠, Regal Princess℠ and Royal Princess℠. With an array of innovative new experiences, guests will enjoy 270-degree sweeping views from the largest balconies at sea in the Sky Suites, unwind in ultimate comfort at The Sanctuary and indulge the senses with world-class dining options. Plus, Princess live entertainment presents mesmerizing Broadway-style production shows that can only be seen in the state-of-the-art Princess Theatre, including the newest show, Spotlight Bar. Discovery Princess uses the latest technologies to reduce fuel consumption, treat wastewater, and support our environmental compliance efforts.Discovery Princess is making make her way to the Port of Los Angeles to sail on a series of Mexican Riviera and California Coast voyages from March 27 – April 24, 2022. She will then head up the Pacific coast to begin a season of seven-day Alaska cruises from Seattle, making her the newest ship sailing in the Alaska region.Oh Canada! Echoing the travel industry's excitement at the news that the Canadian authorities are once again welcoming cruise ships, Cunard is eager to call on Vancouver and the spectacular region of Alaska this summer and beyond.Cunard returned to Alaska in 2019 to much fanfare and excitement, and now looks ahead with great enthusiasm to their 2022 summer Alaska season on Queen Elizabeth. The ship will again sail through the storied waters and landscapes of the Last Frontier, featuring the blue hues of the immense Hubbard Glacier, and Glacier Bay National Park – where visitors are awed by some of the world's most spectacular tidewater glaciers.The ship will sail a coastal transit from Los Angeles to Vancouver on May 30, and begin sailing in Alaska on June 5, offering seven and 10-day voyages through July. At the conclusion of the season in late July, Queen Elizabeth will sail down the west coast, providing guests the option to join the ship in San Francisco and in Los Angeles, as the ship journeys onward through the Panama Canal to cap off her Alaska voyages this year. Queen Elizabeth sails in Alaska again in 2023 with an expanded series of itineraries.Following the recent announcement of the safe resumption of cruising in Canadian ports by the Federal Minister of Transport in Canada, Princess Cruises has finalised programs and guest experiences for a full summer season of 2022 cruises and cruisetours to Alaska, as well as its popular summer and fall Canada & New England program. Meanwhile for Holland America Line. The line's first ship to arrive in Canada is Koningsdam, which calls at Victoria April 9 en route to Vancouver for an April 10 arrival. On the eastern seaboard, Zaandam calls at Halifax, Nova Scotia, May 17 while on a nine-day Atlantic Coast cruise sailing Fort Lauderdale, Florida, to Montreal.Carnival Launches Health Verification App (US)Carnival Cruise Line is making health screening simpler and quicker for guests. After a successful pilot of VeriFLY™ by Daon, a secure and free digital health app allowing vaccinated guests to easily submit pre-embarkation information, Carnival has launched the app fleetwide for all ships in all of its U.S. homeports, making Carnival the largest cruise line to utilize VeriFLY. Guests who use the VeriFLY app can expect the time it takes to complete the health assessment process during embarkation to be cut in half.“VeriFLY helps our guests easily and securely complete pre-embarkation tasks right from their smartphone. Guests can save time at the port and get on board faster by completing the process via VeriFLY,” said Carnival Cruise Line President Christine Duffy.Using the app has been an easy choice for guests from the start. In the pilot program's first test in January, ahead of a cruise on Mardi Gras from Port Canaveral, more than 85 percent of the 2,000 guests who opened an email invitation followed through by downloading the VeriFLY app.Available in the App Store or Google Play, once guests download VeriFLY, they can then search for Carnival Cruise Line and complete the required steps. Guests will be asked to submit required documentation, including vaccination status and COVID-19 test results. When the process is successfully completed, a VeriFLY pass will be issued in the app to present at embarkation. For more information on VeriFLY and the process, click here.Guests who choose not to complete the VeriFLY process are still able to complete their pre-cruise tasks on Carnival.com and present required COVID-19 documents during their embarkation.MSC to sail year round from New YorkMSC Cruises has announced that for the first time it will base one of its ships in New York and operate year-round sailings.  The glamorous MSC Meraviglia will homeport in the Big Apple from April 2023 for year-round cruises to the Caribbean, Bermuda, New England and Canada. Many of the cruises from New York will visit Ocean Cay MSC Marine Reserve – the line's stunning private island destination in The Bahamas.The deployment is set to enhance MSC Cruises' presence in the North American market by complementing the rich choice of ships and itineraries sailing from both Miami and Port Canaveral/Orlando in Florida and will give guests the opportunity to extend their holiday with a stay in New York either before or after their cruise.New York Itinerary Highlights:Caribbean itineraries of either 7 or 8 nights, featuring calls in Nassau, The Bahamas and Ocean Cay MSC Marine Reserve—MSC Cruises' beautiful private island also in The Bahamas.Bermuda itineraries lasting 6 nights and offering three days docked at King's Wharf combined with several relaxing days at sea.Northern itineraries of either 10 or 11 nights, featuring calls at Boston, Massachusetts; Portland, Maine; Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island; Halifax and Sydney, Nova Scotia; and Saint John, New Brunswick. 11-night itineraries include an additional call in Newport, Rhode Island.About MSC MeravigliaAt 315 metres long and 65 metres tall, with an impressive 19 decks and capacity of up to 5,700 guests, MSC Meraviglia is a holiday destination in its own right—packed with innovative features to provide an unforgettable experience:10 different types of cabins to choose from, including solo cabins, popular balcony cabins, and stylish accommodations in the MSC Yacht Club – the premium ‘ship within a ship' featuring butler service, along with exclusive restaurant, lounge and pool areas.Galleria Meraviglia, a promenade lined with shops, restaurants and bars that stretches more than 90 metres and lined with an impressive LED sky screen.20 bars and 12 restaurants, including the popular Butcher's Cut steakhouse and Kaito Sushi and Teppanyaki.Indoor and outdoor pools and hot tubs, together with a water park and ropes course.Different theatrical extravaganzas in our 985-seat theatre.The extensive MSC Aurea Spa, providing massage therapy, body treatments, facial treatments, and a dedicated thermal area.557 square-metre gym featuring state-of-the-art equipment from Technogym™.MSC Kids' Club for children from 0-17 years old, with dedicated areas for babies, toddlers, children and teenagers, plus the Lego® Experience.Azamara Names Godmother of Azamara OnwardAzamara, announces Beth Santos, Founder and CEO of global community and lifestyle brand Wanderful, as Godmother of its newest ship, Azamara Onward. Recognized by Business Insider as a changemaker transforming the hospitality industry, Santos is a seasoned traveler who helps an inclusive community of over 45,000 women travel the world – aligning with Azamara's mission to bring guests to hidden gem destinations, inviting them to dive deeper with country intensive itineraries, immersive land programs, and overnight stays.While living abroad in São Tomé and Príncipe, Santos began Wanderful in 2009 as a travel blog, aiming to capture the diverse and shared experiences of women traveling the world. More than a decade later, Wanderful now connects over 45,000 women travellers through local events in more than 50 cities worldwide, group trips, and its online social network. Both the brand and Santos herself continually advocate for equity and inclusion in the travel industry, a mission that Azamara aims to support and uplift through this relationship with Santos. In addition to founding Wanderful, Santos created the Women in Travel Summit in 2014, the premier event for women and gender diverse travel creators, entrepreneurs, and industry which is now hosted annually on two continents. Santos also started the Bessie Awards, which honor women of impact in the travel industry, and Wanderfest, the first major outdoor travel festival by and for women.Having first cruised at the age of two with her family, Santos appreciates that cruising has a unique ability to bring people together. As a Portuguese American, Santos is especially excited about Azamara's 16-Night Portuguese Pursuit Voyage, which begins in Lisbon and ends in one of Santos' favorite cities in the world, Rio De Janeiro, allowing travelers to explore many destinations that have been influenced by the Portuguese people and culture.Santos will christen Azamara Onward in Monte Carlo on the evening of May 2, the first day of the ship's maiden voyage. Ship christening is a longstanding naval tradition dating back thousands of years, and in keeping with maritime tradition, Santos will christen the ship with champagne as a part of the official naming ceremony. Guests will be a part of this historic sailing followed by an 11-night itinerary stopping in iconic Italian cities such as Florence, Rome, Amalfi, and concluding with an overnight stay in the romantic floating city of Venice.INGER KLEIN THORHAUGE NAMED FIRST CAPTAIN OF NEW CUNARD SHIP QUEEN ANNEFollowing the eagerly anticipated name reveal of Cunard's newest ship, Queen Anne on February 8th, the luxury brand now introduces her first Captain, Inger Klein Thorhauge. Thorhauge will lead the team responsible for on board operations and take charge for the new Queen's maiden season.Thorhauge, Cunard's first female Captain, celebrates 25 years of service this year with the company and will sail Queen Anne from Italy, where she is currently being built, to Southampton ahead of her inaugural sailing in early 2024.Thorhauge, who became Captain of Queen Victoria in 2010, started her career in 1997 as Second Officer on board Cunard's Vistafjord. Originally from the Faroe Islands, her career with the company has seen her travel the world many times over as captain of Queen Victoria and more recently Queen Elizabeth.Sharing captain duties will be David Hudson who started his career with Cunard in 2006.Itineraries for Queen Anne will be revealed in May 2022. Further news about Queen Anne's senior leadership team will be revealed over the coming months.PONANT's Le Commandant Charcot sets new world record in the AntarcticOn the 27th of February 2022 in the Ross Sea, Le Commandant Charcot set a new world record in reaching the navigable latitude closest to the South Pole. PONANT's latest addition to the fleet, the high polar exploration hybrid-electric vessel powered by Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG), Le Commandant Charcot, is the first ship in the world to reach the extreme latitude of 78°44.3 South in the Bay of Whales in the Ross Sea. Le Commandant Charcot is the world's first hybrid electric LNG powered luxury polar exploration ship. It is a major innovation that signals PONANT's deep commitment to sustainable tourism and to minimising the environmental impact. A ship of scientific opportunity, she is also the only exploration ship in the world to host researchers on board and provide them with dedicated work areas. With Le Commandant Charcot, PONANT is helping the scientific world collect data and gain new insights into the world because “we protect better what we know”. Oceanwide Expeditions announces Antarctica 2023-24 programDutch polar tour operator Oceanwide Expeditions has opened its Antarctica 2023-24 program for bookings, including in the program some of its most ambitious itineraries to date.Both classic expeditions and all-new voyages make up the 2023-24 season, which offers numerous trips for returning explorers as well as travellers discovering Antarctica for the first time.Among the program's many highlights are wildlife cruises that seek out prime hotspots for viewing exotic species, exploratory voyages that emphasize rarely visited areas, and outdoor activities that immerse guests in some of Earth's most remote and wild locations.The remote Weddell Sea, Wilkins Ice Shelf, Falkland Islands, South Georgia, and iconic Antarctic Peninsula are all possibilities – along with our classic Basecamp cruises.A-ROSA to offer PremiumPLUS cruises from 2023A-ROSA Flussschiff GmbH unveiled its strategy for further developing its Premium all inclusive tariff from the 2023 season onwards. Based on detailed guest surveys and market research, the company has developed a new concept for its cruises to meet the changing needs of its guests.More than 200 improvements – large and small – will ensure that A-ROSA, currently a premium operator, becomes a ‘PremiumPLUS' operator from the 2023 season onwards. Taking into account the entire customer journey – before, during and after travel – the company will focus on making its cruises more customizable, as well as providing even better service, improving its culinary offering, becoming more family-friendly and developing its well-being portfolio. A-ROSA also plans to place greater importance on sustainability and on offering authentic experiences at its destinations.Authentic, personalised experiences in the cruise regionsAnother new area of focus for A-ROSA's city breaks by ship is helping guests experience the different destinations in an authentic way. They'll have the opportunity to get to know chefs, artists and local people from the various regions. A-ROSA will also introduce Destination Scouts. This innovative idea involves locals advising guests visiting their hometown on how to get the most out of their trip. “We'll be looking for people from the cities we call at who can give our guests insider tips about the best places to eat or shop and the best current exhibitions, concerts and events,” explained Eichler. “This will give our guests a really in-depth experience of the region and provide insight into local life beyond the tourist areas.”When it comes to excursions, there will also be a focus on personalised experiences. With 500 different excursions available, there will be something for everyone. Guests who book excursions in the new ‘exclusive tours' category will enjoy individual tours with a vehicle and driver plus their own tour guide. One particular highlight is the half-day excursion with dinner, which will be included in the cruise price from 2023 and guarantees guests an unforgettable evening.More entertainment and relaxationA-ROSA's onboard entertainment programme is set to provide even more value from 2023. Cruises with a duration of five nights or more will include an evening concert, while cruises lasting seven nights or more will feature two. Cruises of nine nights or longer will also have a subject-matter expert on board to give lectures about the destinations. The musical artists will either come from or be influenced by the cruise regions. Through their music – whether traditional songs or global hits – they'll convey the artistic flair of their homeland to the guests.A-ROSA is also responding to its guests' desire for more relaxation and well-being by widening the range of activities available. The SPA-ROSA will provide new treatments and massages, while yoga and fitness classes will be added to the onboard programme. As well as going on guided bike tours, guests will also be able to borrow e-bikes and explore destinations on their own. What's more, as the industry's only provider of family cruises, A-ROSA will also be extending its offering for children. “As well as running dedicated family cruises during the school holidays, we'll provide a Kids Club with organised activities on almost all our ships if there are more than ten children on board,” explained Eichler.Focusing on sustainability“When we were working on our realignment plan, it quickly became clear that sustainability would play a central role,” said Eichler. “A-ROSA has always been involved in environmental and social actions, but taking responsibility will be a special area of focus for us in the future.” With this in mind, A-ROSA opened its own sustainability department on 1 February 2022. Department head Sandra Wendland introduced herself at the press conference. “We've brought a high-level partner on board – the Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research – and we'll be working together to develop an integrated, long-term sustainability strategy for A-ROSA,” explained Wendland. The plan for the next twelve months is to determine A-ROSA's current sustainability footprint and, on the basis of field analyses and stakeholder surveys, create a clear roadmap to 2030, which will set out indicators, actions to take and targets. “We'll be presenting the entire development and implementation process in a transparent way, and the roadmap will be unveiled at the start of the 2023 season,” concluded Wendland.Viking Mississippi Floats Viking® celebrated the new 386-guest Viking Mississippi® was “floated out” in Louisiana, marking a major construction milestone and the first time the ship has touched water. Set to debut in June 2022, the Viking Mississippi will sail Viking's highly-anticipated voyages on the Lower and Upper Mississippi River, between New Orleans and St. Paul.The traditional float out took place at Edison Chouest Offshore's LaShip shipyard in Houma, Louisiana and is significant because it denotes a ship moving into its final stage of construction. In keeping with maritime tradition, the ship's ceremonial godmother, Dionne Chouest, General Counsel of Edison Chouest Offshore, assisted with the float out.Viking's arrival to the Mississippi will represent a major commitment to tourism and economic development in many communities along the river, with the new voyages expected to bring more than 7,500 guests to the region in 2022 and 17,600+ during the first full sailing season in 2023. Currently scheduled ports of call on Viking's new Mississippi River itineraries comprise seven U.S. states: Louisiana (Baton Rouge, Darrow, New Orleans and St. Francisville); Mississippi (Natchez and Vicksburg); Tennessee (Memphis); Missouri (Hannibal, St. Louis); Iowa (Burlington, Dubuque and Davenport); Wisconsin (La Crosse); and Minnesota (Red Wing, St. Paul).The Viking Mississippi  Hosting 386 guests in 193 all outside staterooms, the new state-of-the-art Viking Mississippi is inspired by Viking's award-winning river and ocean ships and will feature elegant Scandinavian design, as well as public spaces that are familiar to guests but reimagined for Mississippi River voyages. Purpose-built for the Mississippi, the five-deck ship's cutting-edge design, expansive windows and comfortable amenities will make it the largest and most modern ship in the region.Fred. Olsen companies fund lorry to send team donations to UkraineSuffolk-based companies Fred. Olsen Ltd, Fred. Olsen Cruise Lines and Fred. Olsen Travel have jointly funded a lorry to send aid donated by team members to support Ukrainian refugees.Between them, the team filled 61 boxes to help those in need, containing women's, men's and children's clothing, medication for adults and children, toiletries, nappies, blankets, batteries and power packs, thermal flasks and more than 70 soft toys.The donations were collected from Fred. Olsen House, in White House Road, Ipswich, yesterday by Ruslan Postupalenko, who is providing lorries to transport the goods from his Felixstowe-based company RPER Ltd.Ruslan, aged 23 and who was born in Ukraine, is working alongside fellow Suffolk firms A2B-Online Ltd, who have donated trailers to carry the donations, and OLMAR Ltd whose drivers are donating their time to transport the goods safely.The three Fred. Olsen companies will be jointly funding the cost of the fuel for one of Ruslan's lorries to travel to Ukraine.Endurance is FoundThe Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust is pleased to confirm that the Endurance22 Expedition has located the wreck of Endurance, Sir Ernest Shackleton's ship which has not been seen since it was crushed by the ice and sank in the Weddell Sea in 1915.One hundred years after Shackleton's death, Endurance was found at a depth of 3008 metres in the Weddell Sea, within the search area defined by the expedition team before its departure from Cape Town, and approximately four miles south of the position originally recorded by Captain Worsley.The team worked from the South African polar research and logistics vessel, S.A. Agulhas II, owned by the Department of Forestry, Fisheries and Environment and under Master, Capt. Knowledge Bengu, using Saab's Sabertooth hybrid underwater search vehicles. The wreck is protected as a Historic Site and Monument under the Antarctic Treaty, ensuring that whilst the wreck is being surveyed and filmed it will not be touched or disturbed in any way.And MoreJoin the show:If you have a cruise tip, burning question or want to record a cruise review get in touch with us via the website https://thebigcruisepodcast.com/join-the-show/ Guests: Chris Frame: https://bit.ly/3a4aBCg   Chris's Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/ChrisFrameOfficialPeter Kollar: https://www.cruising.org.au/Home Listen & Subscribe: Amazon Podcasts: https://amzn.to/3w40cDcApple Podcasts: https://apple.co/2XvD7tF Audible: https://adbl.co/3nDvuNgCastbox: https://bit.ly/2xkGBEI Google Podcasts: https://bit.ly/2RuY04u I heart Radio:  https://ihr.fm/3mVIEUASpotify: https://spoti.fi/3caCwl8 Stitcher: https://bit.ly/2JWE8Tz Pocket casts: https://bit.ly/2JY4J2M Tune in: https://bit.ly/2V0Jrrs Podcast Addict: https://bit.ly/2BF6LnE Hosted on Acast. 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This insight episode is from episode 041, Michael and Courtney's interview with Cassandra Brooks.  Cassandra is an assistant professor of environmental studies at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Prior to joining CU Boulder, Cassandra was a core member of The Last Ocean, a grand-scale media project focused on the Ross Sea, and her efforts helped lead to the adoption of the world's largest marine protected area in the Ross Sea, Antarctica.  In this insight episode, Cassandra talks with Michael and Courtney about her work to establish marine protected areas in the Southern Ocean, and the complicated nature of international geopolitics.    Cassandra's homepage: https://www.colorado.edu/envs/cassandra-brooks  A recent paper by Cassandra and colleagues on the policy development process in the Antarctic:  Brooks, C.M., L.B. Crowder, H. Österblom, and A. L. Strong. 2020. Reaching consensus for conserving the global commons: The case of the Ross, Sea, Antarctica. Conservation Letters 13(1):289.    In Common Website: www.incommonpodcast.org  Connect with us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/InCommonPod Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/incommonpodcast   

A little follow-up to the Ernest Shackleton story which was covered in episodes 2 and 3. In this bonus episode, Tyler and Andy talk about the Ross Sea Party, who would provide support for the Trans-Antarctic Expedition from the opposite side of the continent.

Die Ross Sea Party war der Hilfstrupp von Ernest Shackletons Antarktis-Expedition. Sie scheiterte grandios. Die Männer der Ross Sea Party gingen als „Shackleton's Forgotten Men“ in die Geschichte ein.

For many of us, isolation is disconcerting and challenging, but for wildlife sound recordist Chris Watson, it is something he actively seeks, so he can fully immerse himself in a place and capture its unique sounds in his recordings. In the first of five illustrated essays, Chris recalls a trip to Antarctica, to a landscape which has been described as ‘The Great White Silence' to record one of the greatest transitional events on the planet; the sounds of a glacier being transformed over the Antarctic summer from a solid mountain of freshwater ice into the salt water of the Ross Sea. Produced by Sarah Blunt for BBC Audio in Bristol. Photo courtesy Chris Watson.

Join your host C.J. and special guest Zak as they discuss the final leg of the odyssey of the crew of the Endurance. They talk about the landing of the James Caird on South Georgia, the trek through the mountains, and the eventual rescue of the men on Elephant Island. They also discuss the Ross Sea party and the cultural context of the Transantarctic expedition, as well as finally getting to the bottom of why four of the crew were not put up for the Polar Medal.

A study of the feces of Adélie penguins from Inexpressible Island on the Ross Sea of the Antarctic sheds new light on how the avian population may survive during climate change. Plus, the possibility for life on Mars and understanding destructive meteors.  

In Episode 45, Jeff in Adelaide asks Chris a Maritime History question about dogs on the Titanic (and other transatlantic ships). Chris and I then discuss the latest cruise news and finally, Shane from Virgin Voyages drops by to talk all things Virgin Voyages.This podcast is not possible without the support of our coffee club. https://bit.ly/2T2FYGXVirgin VoyagesThe Sea Terrace Cabin (Day)The Sea Terrace Cabin (night)The Loose Cannon pubTest KitchenThe Grounds ClubPink Agave Restaurant EntranceRichards RooftopAthletic ClubWellbeing Zone Pool Bimini Beach Club 1Bimini Beach Club 2Bimini Beach Club 3Bimini Beach Club Night 1 Bimini Beach Club Night 2CRUISE NEWSAustralian Borders now closed to JunTHE three-month extension to 17 Jun of Australia's biosecurity emergency declaration by Health Minister Greg Hunt, cites the ongoing COVID-19 situation overseas which continues to pose an unacceptable health risk to Australia, including the emergence of more highly transmissible variants.  “The extension of the emergency period…is about mitigating that risk for everyone's health and safety,” noting the move extends restrictions on outbound international travel, predeparture testing and mask wearing on international flights, restrictions on trade of retail outlets at int'l airports, and restrictions on the entry of cruise vessels within Australian territory.Path to cruise resumption needed as losses approach $5 billionAustralia's cruise industry will continue to advocate strongly for a phased and controlled return to domestic cruising following the Federal Government's decision to continue its year-long biosecurity ban. Cruise Lines International Association (CLIA) said $5 billion had been lost to the Australian economy over the past 12 months since the industry stopped operations in March last year. The cruise industry, which has been amongst the hardest hit in the travel sector, supports more than 18,000 full time equivalent jobs across a range of sectors including thousands of Australian travel agents, farmers, entertainers, tour operators, ports, and marine and logistics services.P&O Cruises to offer UK summer sailings, other cruises cancelled through August/SeptemberA series of short sailings and weeklong cruises in the UK this summer will go on sale later this month, while cruises on Arcadia, Aurora, Azura and Ventura have been cancelled until the end of August, and on Britannia and Iona until the end of September. The coastal sailings will be from P&O's homeport of Southampton and available for bookings later this month. Extended Pause on Cruises Round-trip Southampton through Sept 25, 2021Following the recent UK Government announcement on the roadmap to ease lock-down and related international travel restrictions, Princess Cruises is extending the pause of its UK-based cruise vacations, sailing round trip from Southampton, through September 25, 2021 on Sky Princess, Regal Princess and Island Princess. For UK guests, Princess Cruises will launch a series of new short cruises departing in late summer on Regal Princess and Sky Princess from Southampton that will go on sale later this month.Royal Caribbean to resume sailings in the Med from Haifa with vaccination mandate on Odyssey of the SeasRoyal Caribbean International's Odyssey of the Seas will debut in May, sailing from Haifa and offering Israelis a combination of three- to seven-night cruises visiting the Greek Isles and Cyprus.In conjunction with Israel's health and tourism authorities, Royal Caribbean will offer fully vaccinated sailings, where both crew and guests above the age of 16 will be vaccinated against COVID-19. Details on the additional health and safety measures to be implemented will be announced at a later date.Originally planned to debut in the Eastern Mediterranean based out of Civitavecchia (Rome) in November, Odyssey's delivery from Meyer Werft was delayed until April 2021. It will be the first Quantum Ultra-class ship to homeport in the region. The itineraries, round-trip from Haifa, will feature Rhodes, Santorini, Mykonos and Piraeus, Greece; and Limassol, Cyprus.Odyssey of the Seas' features include the next-generation SeaPlex, a reimagined Adventure Ocean kids program and Social180 teen lounge. Dining venues include Teppanyaki and the cruise line's first Giovanni's Italian Kitchen & Wine Bar. Signature features include the FlowRider surf simulator, skydiving with RipCord by iFly, the North Star , and robot bartenders at Bionic Bar.Aurora to sail Australia after 30 yearsAurora Expeditions is set to launch a new extensive season of domestic journeys in Australia from Jun. It is the first time in Aurora's 30-year history the cruise line will offer a full season of voyages ex- Australia, with adventures to also visit Antarctica's Commonwealth Bay and Ross Sea.Other destinations for the season will include the Bass Strait Islands; the Coral Coast, Western Australia; South Australia's Kangaroo Island; the Kimberley; the Ningaloo Coast, the South West; Tasmania and more.Bookings will open on 11 Mar.Scenic Eclipse Kimberley 2021 Discovery VoyagesScenic Eclipse Kimberley 2021 Discovery Voyages Scenic Eclipse home to Australia, with the launch of our 11 Day Kimberly Coastline cruises. As a proudly Australian founded travel company, we are delighted to invite your clients to cruise the Kimberley with Scenic Eclipse. Guests will have an unrivalled ultra-luxury discovery experience with up to 228 guests during this exclusive Australia 2021 season (June through Aug 2021).Guests will enjoy the experience of a lifetime, as we reveal the many wonders of this remarkable region from the elegant surrounds of Scenic Eclipse, The World's First Discovery Yacht™. Soar above the horizon by Helicopter to view iconic waterfalls and landscapes. Explore by Zodiac with an expert Discovery Team who will share unique insights of the region's native flora, wildlife and ancient spiritual heritage. Season on sale from Friday 5 March.New for 2022 European River Cruises Riviera Plus – Luxury additions for premium suite passengersLuxury European river cruise line, Riviera Travel River Cruises, will debut a new VIP guest program in 2022 called Riviera Plus which offers premium suite passengers luxury additions designed to enhance the enjoyment of their five-star cruise.From next year, guests booked in deluxe and superior suites and all upper-deck cabins will receive a host of complimentary benefits including use of a smart handset with maps, translator, currency converter, unlimited calls, text messages and internet service for use onboard or ashore. Premium suite guests will also receive L'Occitane en Provence luxury toiletries, a bottle of chilled Prosecco on arrival, a platter of fresh seasonal fruits during the cruise and a refreshing aperitif each evening. VIRGIN VOYAGES Shane Riley Associate Vice President of International Sales joins the podcast to update us on all things Virgin Voyages including their onboard policies post COVID.Voyage Well: http://bit.ly/30i3seVShips: http://bit.ly/3kRFVuTOnboard: http://bit.ly/38g9pNYWhen looking for a travel advisor seek out a CLIA accredited and “Certified First mate” with the below logo. Only Certified First Mates have undertaken the “Seacademy” to truly understand what makes a Virgin Voyage experience so unique and how to secure and available Sailor Loot (onboard credit).Ethical Cruise T-Shirts Now available branded podcast t-shirts, cruise-tees and Christmas gifts or design your own in the studio. 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Dr Craig Stevens Principal Scientist in Marine Physics at NIWA joins us for an antarctic update. They've had a big Antarctic Ocean Science year since last he spoke with Bryan. - releasing a major study looking at how hidden oceans work and the Tangaroa just got back from the Ross Sea with some new ocean data from the continental shelf edge.

Ever thought about how scientists measure sea ice thickness without a giant drill and metre ruler or how to spy on Antarctic seals from space? Then you’ll particularly love this one because we are joined by two remote sensing specialists, Prof. Wolfgang Rack and Masters Student, Shanelle Dyer! Prof. Wolfgang Rack is a glaciologist at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand. During his PhD, Wolfgang discovered the instability of Antarctic outlet glaciers following the Larsen-A ice shelf collapse in 1995. Since then, his work has used remote sensing to map ice dynamics and ice thickness in the Antarctic. This tool enables him to study the mass balance of the polar cryosphere, which includes sea ice, ocean and ice shelf interactions right from his office desk! Shanelle also works in Antarctica from space! She is currently researching the detection and monitoring of Weddell seal populations using remote sensing, GIS, and deep learning. Shanelle is awesome because she’s passionate about applying technology to conservation! Seeing as Weddell seals are one of the focal species for the Ross Sea region Marine Protected Area, the largest High-Seas MPA in the world. We will delve into how researchers can work in Antarctica from satellites in space, what ground truthing their data entails? and why two very different fields of science, cryosphere and conservation, are so connected! Enjoy this informative discussion from a field of research that’s making a major breakthrough for marine conservation!

Russia and China voted against approving 3 Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) on the East Coast of Antarctica this past week thwarting another attempt to implement more MPAs in the region. 5 Years ago, the same 26 member committee that manages Antarctica, which includes Russia, China, the US, and others, approved the largest MPA in the Ross Sea. The vote against the 3 MPAs is disappointing, but not all hope is lost.  3 new countries swung their vote to approve the MPAs. Uruguay, Norway, and Australia all voted for approving the MPAs as they changed their votes. This change in momentum provides hope for next year's vote.  More hope is expected as it will be the 40th meeting of the 26 member committee called the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR) and the 60th anniversary of the Antarctic Treaty System. Anniversaries like this can give countries a sense of pride in the work that has been conducted over the past 60 years and could lead to a vote in the right direction.  The quest to get these MPAs approved will continue until all of the countries are in favour. The Conservationists that are involved are very persistent to achieve their goals. They will not give up and it is why I have hope that the MPAs will get approved at some point. I think the fact that the Ross Sea MPA went through a similar process and trend enforces my hope that conservation will win out. We just can't give up.  When do you think the MPAs will be approved? Link To Article: https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/11/once-again-new-antarctic-reserves-fail-win-backing Register for the Mindful Conservation Conference:  https://www.absolutelysmashingllc.com/mindful-conference Want To Talk Oceans? Join the Speak Up For Blue Facebook Group: http://www.speakupforblue.com/group. Speak Up For Blue Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/speakupforblue/ Speak Up For Blue Twitter: https://twitter.com/SpeakUpforBlue Check out the Shows on the Speak Up For Blue Network: Marine Conservation Happy Hour Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/2k4ZB3x Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2kkEElk Madame CuriosityApple Podcasts: https://apple.co/2xUlSax Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2V38QQ1 ConCiencia Azul: Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/2k6XPio Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2k4ZMMf Dugongs & Seadragons: Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/2lB9Blv Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2lV6THt Environmental Studies & Sciences Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/2lx86oh Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2lG8LUh Marine Mammal Science: Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/2k5pTCI Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2k1YyRL Projects For Wildlife Podcast: Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/2Oc17gy Spotify: https://spoti.fi/37rinWz Ocean Science RadioApple Podcast: https://apple.co/3chJMfA Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3bnkP18 The Guide To Mindful Conservation: Dancing In Pink Hiking Boots:Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/31P4UY6 Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3f7hDJw

Jennifer Turner, Director of the China Environment Forum for the Woodrow Wilson Center, talks with Dr. Liu Nengye and Julian Chen. How does China’s investment in new fishing vessels and icebreakers bound for Antarctica impact their decision to approve three new marine protected areas in the Southern Ocean?GuestsDr. Liu Nengye, Macquarie Law School Julian Chen, Greenovation HubHighlights:03:27 China’s history with Antarctica governing body CCAMLR07:12 Why did China agree to the Ross Sea marine protected area proposal in 2016?11:25 China’s marine research capability and challenges15:40 Is it likely for China to want to protect more areas in Antarctica?Further Reading and ListeningWebinar: China's Role in Saving the Wild Southern Ocean from The China Environment Forum of the Woodrow Wilson InstituteWebsite: Protecting Antarctica’s Southern Ocean from The Pew Charitable TrustsProduction credits:Executive Producer: Marcy Trent Long Associate producer: Chermaine LeeSound Engineer: Chris WoodIntro/outro music: Alex Mauboussin Follow us on Twitter@SustainableAsia and Facebook@sustainableasiaco. Sign up for email updates on our website.

Oceanographer Peter McComb studies the giant waves of the Southern Ocean and the Ross Sea to make the region safer for fishing vessels, and for the ships of The Royal New Zealand Navy.

00:00:00 - Patrick puts forth proposals for less automobile-focused cities (see more on his Twitter feed @pvwheatley) before we dive into part 1 of Ryan’s interview with UCSD Scripps Institution of Oceanography Ph.D. Student Maya Becker. She attended the UN’s climate change conference last year (COP25) and then wrote an op-ed about climate change for her local paper. We talk about how scientists can find advocacy that works for them. 00:28:52 - Getting a lot done can be aided by the right beverage. Maya is a coffee fiend and enjoys The WestBean Coffee Roasters for her local fix. Ryan got to go to a farm for beer, which lured him into trying the white IPA Barred Owl from the Brookeville Beer Farm. 00:35:12 - Since Patrick hasn’t been around for a minute we double down on the drinks segment. You’re welcome. Patrick walks Ryan through his home fermentation experiment trying to make some homemade ginger beer. You’ll have to listen in for the results. Ryan has a beer mimicking a style from across the pond with a Proper Porter from Elder Pine Brewing & Blending. 00:47:51 - Enough about policy and beverages, let’s get down to some science. Maya tells us about her research, which involves the dynamics of ice along the underside of the Ross Ice Shelf in a rapidly warming Antarctica using satellites. You can follow along generally by checking out Scripps’ Twitter (@scripps_ocean) and Instagram (@scripps_ocean) feeds. 01:17:41 - PaleoPOWs can also sit on a shelf if they’re physical and sent to us in such a way that they can be displayed. We begin with an inspired 5-star iTunes review from Jackdu24. Thanks, Jackdu24! And we then bestow a thesis upon patron Lindsay M. who has successfully defended: Paedomorphosis of Penguins: Exploring the environmental biology of childlike chicks on Antarctica’s Ross Sea. Thanks, Lindsay! If you write an op-ed or make some ginger beer, let us know so we can feature you on a future segment! More cool rewards await you if you decide to support us on our Patreon! Music credit: Ice Pack - Poddington Bear

Michael and Courtney interview Cassandra Brooks, an assistant professor of environmental studies at the University of Colorado, Boulder. We talked about her path from rural New Hampshire to Maine and later on to California, and most of all her transdisciplinary involvement in the development of marine protection in the seas around Antarctica. Cassandra discussed her initial exposure to this space, what drew her to it, and how she and her colleagues have worked to establish marine protected areas in the Southern Ocean. Cassandra's website: https://www.colorado.edu/envs/cassandra-brooks A recent paper by Cassandra and colleagues on the policy development process in the Antarctic: Brooks, C. M., L. B. Crowder, H. Österblom, and A. L. Strong. 2020. Reaching consensus for conserving the global commons: The case of the Ross Sea, Antarctica. Conservation Letters 13(1):289. Cassandra's famous youtube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNZu1uxNvlo  

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Links:Ryan Waters on IGMountain ProfessionalsMountain Professionals IGAbout Ryan:Working in the professional guiding and outdoor education field for seventeen years has taken him all over the world. His resume includes guiding the Seven Summits on over 50 occasions to the various summits. His background includes well over 35 expeditions in the Andes Range and 24 expeditions to the Himalayas. He is a veteran of seven expeditions to Mt. Everest, leading groups to the summit via both the Tibet and Nepal sides and three expeditions to Cho Oyu in Tibet. He has led expeditions to K2, Broad Peak (2 times), and Gasherbrum II in the Karakoram Himalaya of Pakistan and Lhotse (2 times), Manaslu (3 times), Dhaulagiri and the Southeast Ridge of 7,200 meter Pumo Ri in Nepal. A team unsupported West to East ski traverse of Greenland expanded his interests into the polar regions. In 2010, Ryan and Cecilie Skog completed a 1,117 mile/1,800 kilometer Antarctic ski expedition over 70 days from Berkner Island in the Ronne/Filchner Sea to the South Pole, continuing to the Ross Sea to complete the first ski traverse of Antarctica without resupplies or the use of kites to the ice shelf. He and Eric Larsen skied unsupported to the North Pole in Spring 2014, completing the journey in 53 days, making Ryan the first American to complete the True Adventurers Grand Slam with unsupported and unassisted full ski trips to both poles. He is the first American to ski unsupported/unassisted full length trips to both poles and has also guided clients twice on unsupported full South Pole trips. A 44 day full trip to the South Pole via the Messner/Fuchs route and a 53 day full trip to the South Pole via the Hercules Inlet route. Ryan has a Master Polar Guide certification with the International Polar Guides Association (IPGA), has a Wilderness First Responder certification, the American Institute of Avalanche Research and Education (AIARE) Level II certification. He has a B.S. degree in Geology.

Te Radar is a highly respected and well-known comedian, documentarian and social and political commentator who has worked in war-zones, dived with sharks, played with scorpions and even plunged into the Ross Sea in Antarctica wearing only a skimpy pair of togs. You know Te Radar from his various shows including Off The Radar, Eating the Dog, Nine to Noon and War Tourist – Christmas in Bethlehem. We have an action packed conversation about how recent events have impacted the entertainment world, his innovative approach to touring, the art of comedy, working in war-zones, the time he couldn't find the war, the one question he asked Yasser Arafat and his thoughts and ideas towards an uncertain future. Do it!

On this episode of Marine Tech Talk we hear from Dr. Alexander Forrest, an Associate Professor for the Environmental Robotics Laboratory in the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of California, Davis. Dr. Forrest’s group focuses on applying autonomous robotic systems, like AUVs and gliders, outfitted with seafloor mapping and water column measurement sensors to examine how localized topography influences water flow in lakes and nearshore coastal zones in the ocean.

How does Lewis Pugh dive in at such places as the North Pole and complete endurance swims in below-freezing water temperatures? He says he is motivated by his "driving purpose,” which is saving our oceans. His interview with Kelly Palace and Maria Parker is guaranteed to inspire you to get out of your comfort zone and find your own purpose. Tune in to part one of this two-part exclusive interview with Lewis Pugh. Subscribe to the Champion's Mojo podcast on YouTube. Leave us a review, too! If you subscribe on YouTube you could win one of our monthly prizes. Champion's Mojo is also on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and Google Play. More About Lewis Pugh Lewis Pugh is an endurance, ice water swimmer and the United Nations Patron of the Oceans. Pugh is the only person to have completed a long distance swim in every ocean of the world. Over 7 million people have viewed Lewis Pugh’s TED Talks and videos and countless others have followed his journeys on BBC, Good Morning America, CNN, Jon Stewart, National Geographic, Sky News and more. His autobiography Achieving the Impossible is a bestseller and was chosen for Oprah’s Exclusive Book List. Episode Topics and Mentions North Pole South Pole English Channel The Long Swim Mount Everest Capetown, South Africa Norway Boston Cold water swimming Open water swimming Indian Ocean TED Talks Anticipatory thermogenesis Ross Sea, Antarctica  Zodiac Shuhari - Japanese martial art concept British Special Service China United Kingdom Russia Slava Fetisov Kremlin Achieving the Impossible  Driving through Tunnels Takeaways from Kelly and Maria Kelly - 1) When we have a driving purpose we can accomplish superhuman feats. 2) Martial arts concept of Shu Ha Ri, Obey the law, break the law, make the law. This is a great road map for achieving extraordinary things. Maria - 1) Courage is a muscle and it can get flabby. We need to do things that build our courage muscle. 2) We all need a team. Surround yourself with a brave, courageous team.  Quote of the Week “Courage is contagious and equally, fear is contagious. I try to surround myself with courageous people." -- Lewis Pugh Have something you want to share with us? Email it to championsmojo@gmail.com  Keep up with the show by visiting YouTube, ChampionsMojo.com and visiting the Facebook page, Instagram page, and Twitter page.

Dr. Andrew Wright joins us on a special episode today as we recorded this interview about his field work in Antarctica while he was still in ANTARCTICA!!!! Andrew is working with on a team of scientists to gather information on fish-eating Orcas that frequent the Ross Sea as part of a monitoring program for the Ross Sea MPA.  Andrew and I discuss the field work that involved great encounters with Orcas, Emperor Penguins and Seals, but we also discussed the challenges that the team faced while working in such a tough environment.  Take a listen to find out about Andrew's experience in Antarctica and what an Orca gave the principle investigator.  Do you have questions for Andrew? Ask them in our Facebook Group: http://www.speakupforblue.com/group. Want to get started on living for a better Ocean? Sign up for the Grove Collaborative and get a free gift: http://www.speakupforblue.com/goocean. 

At the meteorological station of Little Halkirk in Antarctica’s Ross Sea, our heroes have found some sanctuary. A storm is brewing outside, however, and threatens to trap them with whatever dangers or secrets are lying in wait in this unassuming cabin.The Infinite Bad is a Definitely Human production. Visit our website to see full credits and check out our other shows. Follow us on Twitter for updates, and support us on Patreon for lots of exclusive bonus content. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Stat: Antarctica is home to more than 9,000 species found nowhere else on Earth. Story: They include Adélie and emperor penguins that depend on the nutrient-rich waters that surround the continent. In 2016, 24 countries and the European Union created the world’s largest marine protected area—encompassing 1.9 million square miles—in the Ross Sea. In this rebroadcast of a Pew event, the former president of Costa Rica and other ocean conservationists discuss the need to give other Antarctic waters this same protection.

In the inaugural episode of the podcast, Klaus Dodds, political geographer and Professor of Geopolitics at Royal Holloway University of London, explains the ways in which the geopolitics of the polar regions are distinct from other parts of the globe. The discussion with Prof. Dodds further includes two recent cases of marine spatial planning—the Ross Sea Marine Protected Area, and the fisheries moratorium in the Central Arctic Ocean—that illustrate some of the major themes of the Polar Geopolitics podcast, i.e. the intersection of environmental protection,  economic exploitation, science diplomacy and international relations in the polar regions. The discussion in this episode is inspired by the article Antarctic Geopolitics and the Ross Sea Marine Protected Area by Klaus Dodds and Cassandra Brooks. 

On this episode we are joined by Raquel Bryant and Benjamin Keisling, PhD candidates in the Geoscience Dept. at UMass Amherst and co-founders of the BRIDGE program to bring early-career scientists to speak at UMass. Raquel explains what single-cell organisms called forams can tell us about the ocean that covered the western North America during the Cretaceous 90 million years ago. Benjamin discusses his coring expeditions to the Ross Sea and on the Greenland ice sheet and why he wouldn't have wanted to sail on the Beagle. Comedian and poet Tom McCauley joins as co-host.

John B Weller and Cassandra Brooks are a married couple based in Boulder, Colorado. Cassandra Brooks is an incoming Assistant Professor in Environmental Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder. She’s worked in marine science and public outreach for twenty years, with the last 13 years largely centered on the remote reaches of Antarctica. She recently completed her PhD at Stanford University studying international ocean policy, with a focus on marine protection in the Antarctic. During her previous graduate work at Moss Landing Marine Labs, she studied Antarctic toothfish in the Ross Sea, a population that supports the most remote fishery on Earth. Cassandra was formally trained as a Science Communicator through the University of California Santa Cruz and has published more than 150 articles and multi-media stories about marine science and the environment. She has also worked with international non-profits to produce media promoting policy designed to protect ecologically important regions of the globe while writing policy reports to identify important areas for marine protection in the Antarctic and elsewhere. She currently contributes to National Geographic’s Ocean Views blog while working as a science advisor for international conservation organisations. John Weller is a partner with organizations that fight for marine protections around the world. After graduating from Stanford in Economics, he achieved critical acclaim as a writer and photographer. An impassioned observer of nature, he followed a path through the Colorado desert to the waters of the Antarctic, and has been working on Ross Sea conservation as a SeaWeb Fellow since 2005. After four trips to the Ross Sea, including three months of diving under the ice as a guest of the United States Antarctic Program, Weller compiled a library of Ross Sea photographs that has been published in dozens of magazines; used by conservation organisations to publicize the Ross Sea all over the world; and showcased at the 2009, 2011, and 2013 Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meetings. He produced many short films, has an upcoming book, and has worked closely with scientists, policy-makers, and conservation organizations invested in the Ross Sea. John co-founded The Last Ocean project to campaign for the protection of the Ross Sea, which Cassandra also became involved in. In our conversation they describe the incredible story of their campaigning work over many years to seek strong protection for one of the remotest and most pristine marine habitats on Earth. We cover learning to deep sea dive, why toothfish are some of the most interesting marine creatures out there, how to prepare equipment for an Antarctic trip, John’s underwater discovery about how Weddell seals stun their prey, and how you get 24 nations plus the EU (including China, Russia and the US) into a room to negotiate together. And of course we find out whether they were successful in getting global protection for this incredible place. This is one of the longer, maybe the longest, conversation I’ve recorded so far. But it is rich in detailed descriptions of the Antarctic landscape, tips on photographing in extreme environments and analysis and background on how to run an international nature conservation campaign. Image by John B Weller.

The Ross Ice Barrier claims its final victim of the Heroic Age as Joyce, Richards and Wild struggle to get the depot party back to safety, then McMurdo Sound takes two more lives when a gamble on the weather goes against Mackintosh and Hayward.

Shackleton's depot laying party head to the Ross Sea and fight to get food and fuel to the foot of the Beardmore.  Part one of a two parter recounting one of the most harrowing chapters to arise in the heroic era.

Mon 4th Dec 2017World Antarctic Day, December 1st- 2017 was celebrated by a huge Marine Protected Area in the Ross Sea coming into force. As the head of International Greenpeace Antarctic Campaign Frida Begtsson said “Healthy oceans take in vast quantities of CO2 and are essential in tackling climate change”Tonight BZE radio goes to the cryosphere where you will meet scientists and sustainability leaders we can be proud of. You will hear about Katabatic winds,krill, ice cores that show Australian droughts centuries ago and ocean circulation that controls the climate.After visiting the replica of Mawson’s hut in Hobart, Vivien went past a sculpture of Roald Amundsen and into the epicentre of Antarctic research ACE CRC. It’s near Salamanca Place.Dr Jan Lieser is a marine glaciologist. His satellite technology helps him advise ships as the summer seasonstarts.. Sea Ice is his speciality as it expands and contracts every year. It doesn’t affect sea level but its great pulse churns the ocean circulation that controls our climate. A film he wants us to watch is called “Chasing Ice”David Reilly is the public affairs manager at ACE CRC. He talks with pride about the united nations of scientists beavering away in the labs and the benefits of co-operation. Their research can be immediately used by farmers, as a snowfall in Antarctica can predict a drought in W.A. Publications and media outreach have taught him to tell it straight. Climate deniers may cherry pick the data but the scientists’ job is to inform the world in a clear and dependable way.Corey Peterson is at The University of Tasmania. His interest is more with krill, penguins and the policies that will protect them. He sent Christine Milne two jars of deep Antarctic water to remind her that climate change may be happening out of sight but her battles for enlightened climate policies in parliament were appreciated. He feels that Governments mostly follow, so it up to this generation of Antarctic scientists, ecologists and students in every sector to show them what has to be done. MUSIC tonight thanks to Kristin Rule and her cello pieces from The Knife that cuts a tear and Tiny Tim for The Icebergs are melting !Production- Andy BrittInterviews- Vivien LangfordPodcasts-Jodie Green and Roger VizePromotions? – YOU!. Please forward this podcast to advance knowledge and inspire action.Links : ACE CRC – http://acecrc.org.au/https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/oct/26/sea-levels-to-rise-13m-unless-coal-power-ends-by-2050-report-says?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_OutlookChasing Ice– https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hC3VTgIPoGUAn Activist Life by Christine Milne-Sea Ice and Climate change – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RG9dWq9PLgY 04 Dec 2017|Categories: Community Show

We talk to Lewis Pugh, long distance swimmer and UN Patron of the Oceans, about the successful campaign that led to a Marine Protected Area in the Ross Sea.

We hear a lot in the news about the Antarctic ice sheet melting – but other than climate change, it’s hard to imagine what else threatens a place so cold, so remote, and so seemingly barren. What other ecological protection could the southern continent possibly need? But Antarctica is...a really weird place. No single country “owns” or governs Antarctica, so decisions about conservation are a huge challenge that involve diplomacy and cooperation. On today’s show, we learn about polar history and the recent fight to save the surprisingly biodiverse waters of Antarctica’s Ross Sea. Image: John B. Weller

Marine Protected Areas are a big tool in the Ocean Conservation toolbox because they work. It has taken some time for them to catch on, but if they are created in the right way where they bring in stakeholders at the beginning of the process and it is science based, then they can do well. These types of protected areas have been documented well in the scientific literature.  It seems as though more and more protected areas are being designated every month. Since September, one US Marine Monument in Hawaii was expanded to 4 times its original size, another has been created in the Atlantic Ocean (the size of Connecticut), the Ross Sea has been declared an MPA, and now the Philippines and Canada declared MPAs.  I talk about how these last 2 MPAs got designated and where each country is going with Marine Conservation in the future.  Enjoy the podcast!

The Ross Sea, Ocean stats that will blow your mind, Typhoon lagoon, Deus's Slidetober, Bonzers, twin fin rails,  surf tax and corruption in Indo, best surfing podcasts, new A.I. documentary, computer modeling surfing, plus confirmation bias and how to know if you're wrong. Photo by Prof. Sam Purkis

Scientific research into the ocean and ocean floor is based on what we can exploit from the ocean. Yet, science is also unveiling the possibility as to where ‘ocean mind’ resides. Some researchers believe that bacteria in ocean sediments are connected by a network of microbial nanowires. These fine protein filaments could shuttle electrons back and forth, allowing communities of bacteria to act as one giant super-organism. In James Cameron’s movie Avatar, the inhabitants, the Na'vi people of Pandora, plug themselves into a neural network that links to all the elements of Pandora’s biosphere, from phosphorescent plants to pterodactyl-like birds. It turns out that Pandora's interconnected ecosystem may have a parallel back here on our planet: sulphur-eating bacteria that live in muddy sediments beneath the ocean floor, as a tightly coupled living mat or network. Going back 4 billion years where bacteria have been living in the ocean and creating the conditions for life to prosper on our planet – evolving the conditions for multi cellular life to eventually we humans. There is emerging evidence that bacteria in the oceans form massive mats connected with things called nanowires. These nanowires allow the bacteria to breathe externally from their bodies – so it is collective breathing – and that they could be connecting as a neural network – so it is possible that the ocean floor is a vast neural network or ocean mind, with deep thought – 10,000 years of thought process that we humans may only take a couple of seconds to grok. What kind of thoughts might the ocean be having?   We are finding out that we live on a planet that is alive and that the ocean is a living being. Hence James Lovelock’s Gaia Theory that our planet is gigantic super living organism.  Here is the original Our Planet description posted on the world wide web in 1996. http://www.ourplanet.org/original-site/gaia.html     It’s only in the last 60 years has man created the tools to look around underwater – with masks, oxygen tanks and more lately bathyspheres. As we become more sensitive and knowing, immersing ourselves into the sea and becoming one with the marine environment and ecology - makes it possible to dissolve into a greater knowing of the ocean - to osmotically take in information. To address the big oceanic issues, in Glenn’s opinion - it’s about addressing our own personal relationship. Western civilisation including we here in NZ have over the years become more distant and separated from nature. We have in numerous ways become disengaged from natural processes and from our planet as a whole. Note NCEA -the National Certificate of Educational Achievement in high schools in NZ that they do not teach ecology. It is not part of the curriculum. Thus students are leaving school not realising that they are an intrinsic part of the web of life within the biosphere. Now we know why the young are disconnected – they are being deliberately severed from our planet. Whereas Maori children in many cases intuitively understand they are an extension of Papatuanuku, our planet.   This interview covers: The International Union for Conservation of Nature recently passing a resolution to protect 30% of the world’s oceans by 2030  At this meeting 129 countries or 89%  said yes – and signed. But 29 countries said NO. And 35 abstained from voting. Note that ‘Clean Green’ NZ was one of the countries that abstained. That NZ could not in this time of declining fisheries and in an ecologically challenged world, mindfully look at this  important 30% protection, particularly for our children and grandchildren’s future, gives us cause for concern Yet, in Antarctica 24 countries and the European Union agreed to protect 1.5 million square  kilometres of the Ross Sea - the largest marine protected area on our planet, so far. 1 million square ks will be a ‘no take’ marine reserve. This is worth celebrating. Yet it is set to expire in 35 years time. Why? The NZ administered Kermadec Ocean Sanctuary will be possibly the 4th largest protected marine reserve on earth. Covering 620,000 square kilometres, and the most significant of a fully protected area. It will be 35 times larger than the combined area of all of New Zealand’s existing 44 marine reserves. The following activities will be prohibited in the sanctuary:      commercial fishing and aquaculture recreational fishing fishing-related tourism oil, gas and mineral prospecting, exploration and mining. This is similar to prohibitions in place in marine reserves in our NZ territorial sea. Challenges to our Oceans Military testing sonar and microwave tech, even passing through some of these reserves!  Plus electromagnetic energy that ships emit. These have been correlated to whale strandings and more science is needed? Covering Professor Daniel Pauly of Canada – who says that there is no fishery on our planet that we could consider as sustainable. In 2004 he came to NZ and mentioned that we need to lock up 25% of our fishing grounds so as to rebuild up our fish stocks. He was criticised vehemently by commercial fishing interests here in NZ, but remains focused and undeterred. In NZ, DOC, the Department of Conservation care for many offshore islands that are prohibited for humans to land on and they could in turn be extended to include fishing reserves around each island. So as to build up fish colonies again and create a “no take” marine reserve. The ancient Hawaiians had an understanding that from the mountain top, down the valleys onto the beach into the water to the reef and out beyond the reef as one living holistic system. They did not partition nature. Loss of NZ’s Endangered Maui Dolphin? There is a belief with ocean ecologists that we are going to lose the Maui dolphins to extinction, because the NZ Government has no will to change the current situation.  (34 minutes into the interview ) cut out before we email). Possibly only 44 are alive today. They are found  along the West Coast of the central North Island from Northern Taranaki in the South to Northland, just South of Opononi. In June 2014, the government decided to open up 3000 km2 of the West Coast North Island Marine Mammal Sanctuary – the main habitat of the Maui's dolphin – for oil drilling. This amounts to one-quarter of the total sanctuary area. In May 2015, estimates suggested that the population had declined to 43-47 individuals, of which only 10 were mature females. Set netting in particular is seen as very problematic. The Maui dolphin is becoming a very charged emotional issue in NZ as it appears that we could lose them whilst on our watch, possibly by 2025 or 2030. In a country that brands itself as Clean & Green, if we lose the Maui’s dolphin this will be a disaster from the standpoint of lack of mindfulness and the precautionary principle. To add insult to this loss it would affect the Maori people, as it will be a slap in their collective face, as their oral history tells of the God Maui, fishing up the North Island (Te Ika O Maui) out of the sea. This loss would be devastating for both Maori and New Zealanders as a whole.   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maui%27s_dolphin Government Changing the Rules. At present the NZ Government is taking away from DOC, the Department of Conservation many decision making processes and handing them over to the Department of Primary Industries, because DPI is more of a commercial concern, based around monetary policies. This is where the government, our elected political servants are taking their own Agenda. We as a people, need to instruct our government to do our bidding to enable 10% of our coastline to be designated as marine reserves and become far more informed. Here in Aotearoa NZ the Te Urewera Park and the Whanganui River have been designated as having special privileges and rights. This was Government sanctioned and is an exceptionally visionary policy. If it can be done on the land (whenua) then it can be accomplished on the ocean (moana). http://www.ourplanet.org/articles/new-zealand-government-acknowledges-a-river-as-a-living-entity-and-a-park-as-having-human-rights#at_pco=smlrebv-1.0&at_si=5819316157fd1305&at_ab=per-2&at_pos=0&at_tot=1 Interspecies Communication? Whales and Dolphin communication. By acoustics and sonar is covered. The www. - World Whale Web of Sperm whales connecting by clicks at deep ocean levels across the Pacific and deep levels.    Telepathy and possibilities of instant connection with large brain mammals?   Changing and cleaning up our oceans and our possible future. We once had pristine oceans?    Prior to the 17th century. Will we (among our numerous and mounting challenges) realise our connection to the planet that loans us bodies, free air, free water and a free food chain? As oceans bear the brunt of wastewater, from our homes and from sinks and bathtubs, to pipes, drains, creeks, streams and rivers all eventually find their way to the ocean. One way or another. As we humans are composed of around 70% water and our bloodstream is about 3.5% salt - why have humans disconnected from our oceans? When in NZ the bulk of NZers are only 100 kilometres or less from the ocean. Today, ocean plastic is outnumbering plankton 6 to one. That is correct - In certain areas of the ocean, specifically the subtropical gyres, micro plastic pieces outnumber plankton by 6 to 1. In other words, for every individual plankton there are 6 pieces of micro-plastic (micro-plastic being any plastic fragment smaller than 2 mm in diameter). Micro plastic can now be found in every part of the Ocean, even in Antarctica, and on the ocean floor. The majority has already sunk below the surface and out of our reach the only answer to stop this plastic onslaught from continuing is to stop putting plastic into the ocean. Most of today’s challenges are extremely recent - especially in the last 70 years exponential acceleration and has grown across the whole realm of industry from products to pollution has escalated and the ocean is taking this all in. Including the nuclear radiation from Fukushima in Japan, that the world’s media and scientists remain tight lipped about. Humanity has much to do in a very small window of time. The imperative is to connect with other people in your locality and voice your needs to commit to organise. Write letters and phone you local MP and speak to them, either on the phone but better still with a small delegation of 4 or 5 of you and your friends. Let your Member of Parliament know your vote counts. Glens web site: http://www.oceanspirit.org

Imagine spending the last ten years (really the first 10 years) of your career trying to get a piece of Ocean protected that is managed by 24 countries with a treaty that was written in 1959. There are countries who can't win the argument to establish Marine Protected Areas within their own country, let alone getting 23 other countries to agree to your propositions. That is what happened to Cassandra Brooks with Ross Sea MPA. Cassandra followed the MPA process from every aspect possible starting as a Fisheries Biologist to a Science and Conservation Communicator then to studying a PhD in Marine Policy where she was able to sit in the MPA planning meetings during the last part of the process. Listen to the podcast to find out how she found the process and the evolution of her career. Enjoy the podcast! Are you looking to change the way you eat for a better health and environment? Start using Arbonne nutrition and health care products that are all natural and environmentally friendly. I use them all the time and their nutrition line has transformed the way I eat and my health. Email me today, andrew@speakupforblue.com to find out how you can transform your health. Looking to transform your health and wellness using Arbonne products? Learn about our starter package to get you living for a better Ocean by contacting me at andrew@speakupforblue.com.

Bridget Kendal is joined by Professor in Water Management Arjen Hoekstra to discuss the idea that we urgently need to change industrial and agricultural practices to reduce our water footprint and avert a global crisis. Esther de Jong specialises in water usage in the developing world. She believes water use and gender are closely related. Also joining the discussion is scientific diver Henry Kaiser who is inspired by waters beneath Antarctica to create haunting soundscapes. Photo: Henry Kaiser working under the ice at Arrival Heights, beneath Ross Sea ice near McMurdo Station, Antarctica (Credit: Rob Robbins)

A medley of marine science news including the challenges facing mussel bed restoration in the Hauraki Gulf, a multi-level habitat cascade that depends on cockles at its base, the discovery that prickly dogfish eat the eggs of other deep sea sharks, and Antarctic toothfish eggs, discovered for the first time in the Ross Sea in mid-winter.

A medley of marine science news including the challenges facing mussel bed restoration in the Hauraki Gulf, a multi-level habitat cascade that depends on cockles at its base, the discovery that prickly dogfish eat the eggs of other deep sea sharks, and Antarctic toothfish eggs, discovered for the first time in the Ross Sea in mid-winter.

Video impression Ross Sea Cruise

This FrostByte has been on ice for quite some time, but it has been defrosted so we can show it again. This Frostbyte was originally created for the International Polar Year conference in Montreal, 2012 by Marcos Tonelli. The very first batch of Frostbytes.

Olivia Wix considers moves to protect the Ross Sea and asks if a sanctuary will ever be agreed on

On Tuesday, Nov. 26, How On Earth brings you two features: Feature #1: (start time 5:53) STEM, as you may well know, stands for Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics. Many math and science topics are introduced throughout most years of primary education, but technology and engineering -- not so much. We live in a world surrounded by things imagined and designed and built by engineers, from roads and buildings to computers and appliances and even food, drugs and clothing. So it's important to understand engineering if we want to understand these life necessities. An educator tackling this issue is  Dr. Christine Cunningham, vice president of research and educator resource development for a project called "Engineering is Elementary." It was developed by the Museum of Science in Boston. Cunningham is featured in an article, written by former How On Earth contributor Breanna Draxler, called "E is for Engineering" in the December issue of Discover magazine. Cunningham talks with host Joel Parker about how teaching engineering to very young students can be done. Feature #2: (start time 14:45) Arguably the healthiest marine ecosystem on Earth is the Ross Sea in Antarctica. It’s so pristine largely because it is protected by a 500-mile-wide shield of floating sea ice, and, well, it’s not exactly easy to get to.  But in recent years the Ross Sea has come under threat, largely from New Zealand industrial fishing ships that are hunting as far south as they can for the Antarctic toothfish, which was rebranded as Chilean sea bass for U.S. and other consumers. John Weller is a nature photographer and conservationist living in Boulder. He has documented the beauty and fragility of the Ross Sea in his new book, The Last Ocean. Weller also co-founded a nonprofit, called The Last Ocean Project, that is dedicated to protecting the Ross Sea and other fragile marine ecosystems. Weller talks about the science and art of these environments with host Susan Moran. (You also can hear a previous interview with Weller on KGNU's Morning Magazine.) Hosts: Susan Moran, Joel Parker Producer: Susan Moran Engineer: Joel Parker Executive Producer: Beth Bartel Additional contributions: Brian Calvert, Jim Pullen Listen to the show here:

Sponges are abundant and species-rich in Antarctic waters, and play important roles in the benthic ecosystems of the continent. The taxonomy of Antarctic sponges is, to some extent, well established, yet the phylogenetic relationships of this fauna remain unknown. Here, the first contributions to the knowledge of the evolution of Antarctic sponges are presented. A molecular phylogeny for the common Antarctic shelf glass sponge genus Rossella is provided. Based on nuclear and mitochondrial markers, it is shown that many of the species described for the genus, which usually are morphologically poorly defined and difficult to differentiate, likely, represent a single species (Rossella racovitzae) or a species complex. The deep Southern Ocean has yielded numerous, most likely new, species of the demosponge Familiy Cladorhizidae. Cladohizidae groups sponges largely known by their carnivorous habit, which is usually accompanied by the lack, or strong modification, of the sponge aquiferous system and by a distinct stipitate body shape. Cladorhizids are also important for the broader understanding of the phylogenetic relationships of the Order Poecilosclerida. In this study, the debated phylogenetic position of the genus Abyssocladia is clarified using recent collections of cladorhizid sponges and a (remarkable) new species of the genus Phelloderma (Phellodermidae) from the Southern Ocean, and partial sequences of the (nuclear) 28S rDNA and of the (mitochondrial) COI. The results show that Abyssocladia is a cladorhizid sponge and that Cladorhizidae is monophyletic, the consequences of these results for the prevalent interpretation of the evolution of poecilosclerid sponges are also discussed. The diversity of Antarctic sponges occurring on the shelf has been compared to that of tropical and subtropical ecosystems. Less is known about the sponge communities inhabiting the deeper waters of the Southern Ocean. The lack of information on deep benthic habitats, mainly due to the fact that sampling remote ecosystem such as Antarctica or the deep sea is expensive and technically difficult, hampers the determination of the number of species that inhabit the vast area of the deep Southern Ocean. In this work, estimation methods are used to predict lower bounds for the number of deep sea sponge species occurring in the Weddell Sea, Western Antarctica, and to show that the deep sea can be as rich as the shelf and that the total number of sponge species in Antarctica could be more than previously considered. Finally, a middle throughput DNA barcoding workflow for processing sponges was established and the performance of this analytical pipeline was analyzed based on a large collection (∼8300 specimens) of sponges from Australia avail- able for DNA barcoding. The barcoding workflow was also used to provide a comprehensive DNA-barcode database for the Ross Sea comprising ∼50 species of demosponges and covering ∼80% of the sponge species characteristic for this area. The generated barcode database was used to provide evidence for a long history of in situ evolution in Antarctic sponges, which is congruent with previous biogeographic hypotheses suggesting an ancient origin for Antarctic sponges.

A functioning population of apex predators in a pristine Antarctic marine environment provides a unique opportunity to learn more about our world, and how animals interact with their environment. Interview with Montana State University ecologist Jay Rotella on location in the Weddell seal colony at Big Razorback Island, Erebus Bay in the Ross Sea.

It’s ‘Science Season’ down in Antarctica, or rather it’s just kicking off, when all the learned folk head down to the Ross Sea and begin studying. Matt Vance is the Communications Advisor from Antarctica New Zealand and he popped into the studio on his way to work to tell us what’s happening down there right now. Christchurch is the gateway to Scott Base - all the planes leave from ChCh Airport - so there are a lot of excited people in town. Matt gave us a fascinating insight as well as told us about the radio station down there - our immediate competition really.

Dr. Stacy Kim is a Benthic Ecologist and diver who studies sea floor creatures in Antarctica waters that are below freezing. Her research team has developed a cool new ROV named SCINI (Submersible Capable of Under Ice Navigation and Imaging) for deployment beneath the ice to study depths below where divers can go. In this video, Stacy tells about diving the extreme cold water beneath Antarctic ice, and how SCINI makes possible even greater capabilities to explore and record the sea floor life in polar regions. Video includes wonderful underwater footage by Henry Kaiser of Stacy with SCINI diving beneath the Ross Sea ice near the Antarctic Base, McMurdo Station.

Dr. Stacy Kim is a Benthic Ecologist and diver who studies sea floor creatures in Antarctica waters that are below freezing. Her research team has developed a cool new ROV named SCINI (Submersible Capable of Under Ice Navigation and Imaging) for deployment beneath the ice to study depths below where divers can go. In this video, Stacy tells about diving the extreme cold water beneath Antarctic ice, and how SCINI makes possible even greater capabilities to explore and record the sea floor life in polar regions. Video includes wonderful underwater footage by Henry Kaiser of Stacy with SCINI diving beneath the Ross Sea ice near the Antarctic Base, McMurdo Station.