Newsletter Issue 03
Catlin Arctic Survey Newsletter | Issue 03 | June 2010
Our Explorers Reach North Pole After 60-Day Catlin Arctic Survey
The Catlin Arctic Survey Explorer Team – Ann Daniels, Charlie Paton and Martin Hartley – reached the Geographic North Pole at on 12th May, ending a gruelling 60-day trek across the floating sea ice of the Arctic Ocean.
The team has been collecting water and marine life samples from beneath the floating sea ice as part of this year’s leading-edge science programme, which is assessing the impact of carbon dioxide on the Arctic Ocean and its marine life.
The Polar Treadmill - Backwards Drift on an Expedition
Imagine being chilled to the very bone … where every step brings pain and discomfort … where hauling a sledge twice your body weight is like dragging a car with the handbrake on … and where, despite trekking for over eight hours in biting winds, you are getting nowhere. Literally nowhere.
The Explorer’s Science Routine
Two out of three days, the Catlin Arctic Survey Explorer Team concentrated on making their way across the floating sea ice towards the North Pole.
Catlin Arctic Survey Sends Vital Marine Species ‘Into the Future’
Whilst activities at the Catlin Arctic Survey Ice Base were completed at the end of April, the Ice Base scientists continue to work on a series of experiments to determine how microscopic crustaceans - vital to the marine food chain – may respond to increasing levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide absorption by our oceans.
Explorers Cast Votes From Arctic Sea Ice
This year’s Catlin Arctic Survey achieved many milestones, but one was unexpected: the members of the Explorer Team were likely the coldest persons casting ballots in the recent UK election.
Photographs 1 and 4 from left
to right © Catlin Arctic Survey
Photographs 3 and 5 from left to right © Martin Hartley
www.martinhartley.com