Life and (Cold) Hard Times in Antarctica: Mixing Science and Travel While Unraveling the Frozen Continent's Climatic and Ecological History
Location
Massey Business Center (MBC) 400
Presentation Type
Presentation
Start Date
12-11-2007 7:00 PM
Description
Antarctica is the coldest, driest, and highest continent. It is also the only continent that is not owned by any country, is effectively governed and fiercely protected by international treaty, and is reserved for scientific research. Rocks exposed in the Trans antarctic Mountains (TAM) preserve fossils and features demonstrating that forests and animals thrived 250 million years ago, in spite of the location then, as now, near the South Pole. The TAM document the magnitude of natural earth change, whereas northern Antarctica's rapid recent warming reflects human effects on the climate system. Finding evidence of life in the remote and seemingly lifeless TAM puts human life in a unique perspective of time and space.
Recommended Citation
Miller, Molly F., "Life and (Cold) Hard Times in Antarctica: Mixing Science and Travel While Unraveling the Frozen Continent's Climatic and Ecological History" (2007). Humanities Symposium. 17.
https://repository.belmont.edu/humanities_symposium/2007/2007/17
Life and (Cold) Hard Times in Antarctica: Mixing Science and Travel While Unraveling the Frozen Continent's Climatic and Ecological History
Massey Business Center (MBC) 400
Antarctica is the coldest, driest, and highest continent. It is also the only continent that is not owned by any country, is effectively governed and fiercely protected by international treaty, and is reserved for scientific research. Rocks exposed in the Trans antarctic Mountains (TAM) preserve fossils and features demonstrating that forests and animals thrived 250 million years ago, in spite of the location then, as now, near the South Pole. The TAM document the magnitude of natural earth change, whereas northern Antarctica's rapid recent warming reflects human effects on the climate system. Finding evidence of life in the remote and seemingly lifeless TAM puts human life in a unique perspective of time and space.
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