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From Antarctica!

If you look closely you will see the Palmer Research Station on one end of Anvers Island. It will be my home for several weeks.

This afternoon I go from Miami to Punta Arenas, Chile, to embark on an icebreaker from the National Science Foundation bound for the Antarctic Peninsula . You can follow my trip daily dispatches will be sending a specially created website VERY INTERESTING, with photos, videos, audio and text. There are interactive maps and more, and you can send me questions.

The trip will last 36 days, and is part of the scholarship that I won for a journalist, awarded by the Marine Biological Laboratory. The aim is to report on studies carried out in Palmer Station, one of three bases that the U.S. maintains open all year on the Antarctic continent. Palmer, through his study of Long Term Environmental Research, LTER, has over 20 years by storing critical information about how the ecosystem responds to climate change. The Antarctic Peninsula is a place where global warming is feeling stronger and 5 times faster than the rest of the planet.

Then Palmer Station scientists want to understand the interaction between the triple border of the ice, the sea and wind, from a microbe to whale, the structure of ice, etc..
But first, I expected the dreaded 4-Day shipping the Drake Passage , the scene of the violent seas of the globe ... ay, ay ...