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Science on Ice: Polar Expeditions and Adélie Penguins
Mon., March 5, 6:30 p.m.
Notebaert Nature Museum, Chicago
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Science on Ice: Polar Expeditions and Adélie Penguins
with Chris Linder, International League of Conservation Photographers / Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
"Polar exploration is at once the cleanest and most isolated way of having a bad time which has been devised," wrote Apsley Cherry-Garrard of his time with the 1910 Scott expedition to the South Pole. And that's how most of us still imagine polar expeditions: stolid men with ice riming their beards risking death for scientific knowledge. But polar science has evolved over the past century. Using images from his recent book Science on Ice: Four Polar Expeditions, photographer Chris Linder will explore how Adélie penguins — and the researchers who study them — survive and thrive at Cape Royds and Crozier, the southernmost penguin colonies in the world.
Monday, March 5th, 6:30-7:30pm
Notebaert Nature Museum
2430 N. Cannon Drive, Chicago
Free parking on Cannon Drive and in Harbor lot across street.
Books available for signing.
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