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SUMMARY:EESS talk on "ACE\, an interdisciplinary expedition around Antarct
 ica"
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DESCRIPTION:Dr Danièle Rod\, Swiss Polar Institute @EPFL\, ACE expedition
  2017\n\nShort biography:\nDanièle Rod works at the Swiss Polar Institute
  (SPI) and is a political scientist by training. Before coordinating the A
 ntarctic Circumnavigation Expedition (ACE) from 2015-2017\, she spent her 
 career working for science funding organisations (FNSF\, ERC) and science 
 policy organisations (SERI). She has worked for the Swiss National Science
  Foundation and managed international research programmes and partnerships
  for 10 years. From 2011\, she was in charge of the Education (Erasmus) an
 d Science (Horizon 2020) agreements at the Mission of Switzerland to the E
 U\nAbstract:\nThe Antarctic Circumnavigation Expedition (ACE) was organise
 d by the new Swiss Polar Institute. It circled the Antarctic continent and
  most of its sub-antarctic islands over a period of 3 months from December
  2016 to March 2017 supporting 22 projects and almost 150 scientists from
  18 countries. Conceived as an opportunity to better characterise the role
  of the islands in the Southern Ocean as well as providing circumpolar mea
 surements of many variables in a single summer the cruise offered the oppo
 rtunity to link physical and biological measurements in air\, water and on
  land.\nAs well as vertical profiles at fixed stations using both CTDs and
  radio sondes\, there were also continuous underway measurements of phytop
 lankton\, surveys of airborne particles and aerosols\,  collection of pla
 stics\, bird and whale surveys\, measurements of trace metal availability 
 and trace gases\, studies on the evolution of flora and fauna   as well a
 s investigations into palaeoclimate from ice and peat cores. Linking of th
 e data sets and joint analyses will promote a more holistic understanding 
 of dynamic change in the Southern Ocean and help provide baselines for fut
 ure measurements.\nDuring the presentation we will present the vision behi
 nd the expedition and its implementation\, outline the journey and main sc
 ientific experiments performed over its three months journey and give insi
 ghts into the follow-up work and legacy of this unique expedition.\n 
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