Antarctic Marine Explorers Reveal First Hints of Biological Change After Collapse of Polar Ice Sheets

10-week Voyage Yields Likely New Species -  Insights into Polar Ecology

Once roofed by ice for millennia, a 10,000 square km portion of the Antarctic seabed represents a true frontier, one of Earth’s most pristine marine ecosystems, made suddenly accessible to exploration by the collapse of the Larsen A and B ice shelves, 12 and five years ago respectively. Now it has yielded secrets to some 52 marine explorers who accomplished the seabed’s first comprehensive biological survey during a 10-week expedition aboard the German research vessel Polarstern.

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Interview with Dr. Julian Gutt, Head of the expedition.

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