In Antarctica, ocean conservationists and citizen scientists are teaming up to make travel a force for good in a precarious ecosystem.
Outside, snow falls like confetti into the silver ocean. A storm petrel glides above the water, its bronze wings flashing as it navigates the swells. The petrel is one of a handful of bird species a small group of us on board our Antarctic expedition ship have spotted and recorded as part of a Southern Ocean seabird survey.
“The numbers are there, and the science is there, but what it really takes to get people to care about Antarctica is for them to be moved,” says Earle. “Travel is one of the great forms of educating and inspiring people to get outside their limited point of reference and also see that there’s immense common ground across all humankind and, in fact, all life.
The Zodiac up ahead is dragging a large net through the water, hoping to collect phytoplankton, microscopic plant- like organisms. The sample will then be sent to scientists at FjordPhyto, one of the other PCSC projects that Aurora Expeditions supports, so they can measure different phytoplankton species and behaviour and monitor how melting glaciers are affecting the population.
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