Re-Post and Critical Context: STEMM Storytellers #12 Antarctic Ice-shelf collapse, iceberg calving and future research
This is a re-post and a wider conservation science policy context of an earlier podcast interview with STEMM Storytellers with Rachel Villiani's
#90 Antarctica Series 12: https://anchor.fm/storytellersofSTEMM/episodes/90---Antarctica-Series-12-Falk-Huettmann-eom8au
It is c. 1h long, tackles issues of research directions for sustainability with NSF, the international community and Antarctica, and is based on the initial internationall mass-co-authored publication by Ingels et al. 2020 below.
I report that to you because in my view, metling ice in Antarctica is widely due to man-made causes like CO2, Economic Growth, industrial society etc. And for public science in an international wilderness area of global relevance to be effective, it's not really ethical to divorce and magrinalize conservation from the sciences - any sciences -, and it should directly tackle the issue and push for sustainability and such a policy without relevant delay, certainly in the Antarctic Treaty System (ATS) and when collapsing iceshelf and icebergs are concerned. It's quite absurd to do and engage any other, I find.
Citations (PDFs available on request):
Ingels J., R. Aronson, C. Smith, A. Baco, H. Bik, J. Blake, A. Brandt,M .Cape, D. DeMaster, E. Dolan, E. Domack, S. FireH, H Geisz, M. Gigliotti, H. Griffiths, K. Halanych,C. Havermans, F. Huettmann, S.Ishman, S. Kranz,A. Leventer, A. Mahon,J. McClintock,M. McCormick, B.Mitchell, A. Murray, L. Peck, A. Rogers, B. Shoplock, K. Smith, B. Steffel, M. Stukel, A. Sweetman, M. Taylor,A. Thurber, M. Truffer, A. Van de Putte, A. Vanreusel, M. Zamora-Duran (2020). Antarctic Ecosystem Responses following Ice Shelf Collapse and Iceberg Calving: Science Review and Future Research. WIREs Clim Change. 2020;e682. https://doi.org/10.1002/wcc.682
Huettmann, F. (ed) (2012) Protection of the Three Poles, Springer Tokyo, Japan, p. 337 https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9784431540052