Fighting Climate Change in Antarctica

        Nowhere is the Earth’s changing climate more apparent than in Antarctica, where some areas are warming at a rate of two to three times the global average. Learn about the dramatic changes affecting this endangered landscape on Fighting Climate Change in Antarctica (December 7-20, 2009) from Professor Jim McClintock, who has been conducting research in polar waters for 25 years.  See the best of the Antarctic Peninsula – vast penguin and seabird colonies, dramatic icebergs and calving glaciers – aboard Abercrombie & Kent’s comfortable expedition ship ‘Minerva’ and deliver a remotely-operated Hyperspectral Irradiance Sensor to Palmer Station to measure the impact of global warming on phytoplankton along the Antarctic Peninsula.   Book by June 30, 2009 and save up to 25% per person on select cabin categories (from $5,697 per person, double occupancy, after discount).

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