Chief scientist on the ACE expedition and an expert on the White Continent, David Walton shares his thoughts and impressions about the three-month trip and the science undertaken on board. He knows Antarctica. A scientist with the British Antarctic Survey for 50 years, David Walton has traveled mto the White […]

A voir absolument: l’émission “Thalassa”, le magazine de la mer et des océans, propose un long reportage sur l’expédition ACE. Not to be missed: an in-depth report about ACE expedition will be broadcast on “Thalassa”, a programm dedicated to oceans and seas on the French channel France 3.   Rediffusions: […]

Incredible landscapes, astonishing ice formations, diversified wildlife, numerous opportunities for scientific work and studies…. Antarctica provides beautiful photographs! From May 11th until June 5th, 2017, a set of fifty pictures taken on the white continent and around are exposed in the ArtLab building at EPFL, Lausanne Switzerland. This exhibition shows […]

The Akademik Treshnikov reached Bremerhaven, Germany, yesterday, thus completing the expedition’s fourth leg. In a way, this is a second ending for ACE. The 14 scientists disembarked, and the offloading of all the containers and sample-boxes is now underway. In a few days, the boat and its Russian crew will […]

By Inigo Everson, chief scientist on leg 4. The views of anyone visiting a foreign country are inevitably coloured by the politicians and media at home painting a stereotypical view of the people in the country they plan to visit. So has living on a Russian icebreaker for a couple […]

Atmospheric measurements for project 7 (Study of preindustrial-like Aerosol-Climate Effects) are kept going also during Leg 4 from Cape Town to Bremerhaven. During our journey we expect to see the transition from pristine marine conditions into areas with more and more anthropogenic influence (e.g. from biomass burning and industry) as […]

Text and photos: Inigo Everson, Leg 4 “Chief scientist” We sympathise with you poor people who got off the ship in Cape Town. You had ample time to change your minds though, because we didn’t finally leave until well after dark, too late for those sunset pictures of Table Mountain. […]