18 Oct 2017

A lot less sea ice could mean a lot less research

From Afternoons, 1:21 pm on 18 October 2017

NIWA's Natalie Robinson is off t with her research team next week to look at sea crystals.o Antarctica But satellite pictures suggest there's a lot less sea ice around the McMurdo Sound, which could force the team to set up at Scott Base and travel daily to their research site. That could seriously hamper the amount of research Dr Robinson and her team could get done.

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