The Colossus of the Abyss
The legend of "Kraken" is not totally false. In the depths of the Antarctic Ocean lies the refuge of a creature similar in size and appearance to myth. The colossal…
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15/06/2017
Climate Change is starting to affect subsistence in the Arctic
The importance of interactions between physical and social sciences Increased climate change in the Arctic has already led to changes in the interactions between its inhabitants and the available natural…
15/05/2017
Arctic Geo-economy
In the past few years we have witnessed a set of changes in the planet’s climate, with a particular emphasis in the Arctic region. The increase in average temperatures unleashed the…
15/04/2017
Ice cores – precious details of the planet’s past climate
Ice cores are cylinders of ice that results in a sample of snow and ice accumulation over several years and which are obtained by drilling an ice sheet or glacier.…
15/07/2016
Mercury in the Southern Ocean
Mercury is one of the most hazardous elements all over the world. During centuries, mercury was used on medicine, as preservative and anti-bacterial agent, and also largely used in industry.…
15/06/2016
Cameras network remotely operated: a help to enlarge seabird monitoring in Antarctica
Indicative species is a concept used in the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR) as one of the elements used to monitoring and to manage the…
15/05/2016
Antarctic Squids: How the global climate changes affect them?
Cephalopods, particularly squids, are known to play an important role in Southern Ocean (SO). There are eighteen squids’ species in the SO and it is expected that more waits to…
15/04/2016
Decline over time of krill stocks and increase in salp populations in the Southern Ocean
Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba) and salps (such as Salpa thompsoni) are two main grazers in the Southern Ocean. As any other species, the distribution of these two species is profoundly…
15/03/2016
Is it vision or they just smell it: using GPS techniques to track how Wandering albatross find prey
Wandering albatrosses (Diomedea exulans), with a wingspan of 3.2 meters, they can travel thousands of kilometres in open ocean, foraging on one of the most demanding marine environments of the…
15/02/2016
How Do Polar Marine Ecosystems Respond to Rapid Climate Change?
Climate change will alter marine ecosystems. However, the complexity of the food webs combined with the chronic undersampling, constrains efforts to predict their future and to optimally manage and protect…
15/12/2015