Author: Rebecca Porritt

Rebecca is a polar specialist at Swoop who has made multiple trips to both Antarctica and the Arctic. On her voyages south, she’s been delighted by orcas on the Peninsula, said hello to the king penguins of South Georgia, and been mad enough to do the polar plunge twice in quick succession.

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Measuring ocean health with citizen science in Antarctica

The seas around Antarctica teem with life, from penguins by the thousand to enormous humpback whales gorging themselves on krill. But what supports these ecological riches? Phytoplankton, that’s what: tiny single-celled plants converting sunlight into chemical energy to feed the ocean, sucking carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere at the same time. On my most […]

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