Learn what it takes to prepare for and conduct an Antarctic research expedition. Presented by Professor Atsuhiro Muto, who is part of the largest-ever United States-United Kingdom collaborative scientific field campaign to investigate the forces that could eventually collapse the massive Thwaites Glacier in the West Antarctic Ice Sheet. The Thwaites already accounts for 4 percent of global sea-level rise, so scientists seek to understand how the glacier could potentially disappear in the next several decades or centuries.
Explore how one scientist works to identify species decline in the Caribbean. Professor Jocelyn Behm, a principal investigator at Temple University's iEcoLab research center, is a biologist who studies the mechanisms that cause species decline and the solutions that reduce future declines. Using a mix of field surveys, lab and field experiments, and modeling, she has studied the human impacts on biodiversity on the island of Curacao, the spread of exotic species and impact of biodiversity on sustainability questions.