Transarctic Expedition: Understanding the distribution of microorganisms in the air | PONANT
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Microorganisms have a functional role in the environment. So they do things related to climate change.
They're responsible for the albido or the reflectance of the sun's rays around the Arctic.
We're trying to understand the background status for microorganisms under the polar dome and how they're starting to change over time as the climate changes weather patterns.
Being an icebreaker, it's able to go to those parts of the Arctic. It might be very difficult or extremely expensive to charter a research ship to go just to get one data set.
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