The international team will sail on Russian research vessel Akademik Treshnikov, leaving Cape Town on 20 December and returning on 18 March next year. The international team will sail on Russian research vessel Akademik Treshnikov, leaving Cape Town on 20 December and returning on 18 March next year. Organisers of the Antarctic Circumpolar Expedition (ACE) hope to foster collaboration in a bid to gain a deeper understanding of humankind’s effect on the Southern Ocean. “A better understanding of Antarctica is critical, not just for its preservation, but for the whole planet,” it added. Frederik Paulsen, a founder of the SPI, David Walton, the expedition’s science coordinator, other contributing scientists and politicians were due to gather in London on Monday for the official launch.

Source: Mint October 17, 2016 17:03 UTC