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According to Science Alert, next week the group British scientists led by BAS (British Antarctic Survey) will leave the Falkland Islands and head towards Antarctica – specifically to the Larsen S glacier, from which last June A giant iceberg A-68 (the size of Estonia) broke away, freeing thereby the bottom of the sea, hidden from sunlight at least 120 thousand years. Due to this, a special ecosystem that researchers planned to study Great Britain.
That’s how the head of the expedition doctor of biology says about this Katherine Lins:
This is the most urgent expedition, since with the end Antarctic nights in the area for the first time in many thousands of years the effect of sunlight on the already existing in dark ecosystem. Iceberg breakaway last summer provided biologists with a unique opportunity to study in this place life of marine life, their reaction to all these cardinal changes in their familiar environment. Hard even imagine with what riddles, secrets and, undoubtedly, with scientific discoveries we can face here!
Professor David Vaughan, who is also part of this The team of British scientists adds:
We will conduct all research using underwater cameras and many other specialized equipment that will allow us to make high-quality pictures and videos of the deep sea, quickly collect samples of animals living here, plankton and even microbes. The most important thing is that we have time to do all this before how the underwater environment will begin its irreversible changes under exposure to sunlight coming here. In our team there are various scientists, that is, the spectrum of their knowledge, skills and the possibilities are relatively wide, which is necessary to collect as much as possible more information – and certainly in the shortest possible time. All that we find here is of great interest. This information will allow primarily answer fundamental questions about sustainability of continental shelves in the face of abrupt climate change. But of course, not only that. However, we won’t do anything yet. to make up.
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