Beneath the Blooming Ice

Beneath the Blooming Ice Opening at NZ IceFest 2014, Beneath the Blooming Ice is an exhibition created by science communicati

Come get immersed under the ice for Antarctica's season of plenty: the annual plankton bloom. Look down the microscope to see live phytoplankton, and learn how sunshine makes them grow. Find out how these tiny organisms feed animals as big as whales, and how they suck up carbon from the air. Come Beneath the Blooming Ice, and see what big things these tiny plankton do.

Over 7000 visitors, 3200 animal rubbings, and 81 plankton slides later, and IceFest is done! Thanks to everyone who was ...
14/10/2014

Over 7000 visitors, 3200 animal rubbings, and 81 plankton slides later, and IceFest is done! Thanks to everyone who was a part of it all, and to our last visitor, who didn't wee inside :)

We've had over 1,500 people through so far! The Orrery is a hit with the toddlers :)
29/09/2014

We've had over 1,500 people through so far! The Orrery is a hit with the toddlers :)

...and we're off to a blooming good start!
27/09/2014

...and we're off to a blooming good start!

Penguin!
23/09/2014

Penguin!

Beautiful day in Christchurch for Day 1 of install. 17 MDF boards later, we now have walls and a roof :)
20/09/2014

Beautiful day in Christchurch for Day 1 of install. 17 MDF boards later, we now have walls and a roof :)

Some late night panel making at the Otago Polytech. It's the cutting edge! Ba doom chh.
18/09/2014

Some late night panel making at the Otago Polytech. It's the cutting edge! Ba doom chh.

In the run up to NZ IceFest we'll be posting updates of our progress and information about the festival here. For now, h...
11/09/2014

In the run up to NZ IceFest we'll be posting updates of our progress and information about the festival here. For now, here's a beautiful little film about why plankton are so great, narrated by Sir David himself.

"Ocean Drifters, a secret world beneath the waves" is a short film about plankton written, produced and directed by Dr Richard Kirby (Marine Institute Research Fellow,…

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