March 21st is World Glacier Day, March 22nd World Water Day, and March 23rd Meteorology Day. To celebrate, we invite you to two special lessons connecting these three holidays. Each of these events is crucial for the scientists working on the LIQUIDICE project.
Online lesson in English – 23.03 at 10.00
Climate change: yes another lesson on climate change!
We have known that climate has been happening for nearly 100 years, and the theorised causes were known for even longer. So why are scientists still studying climate change and what effects is it having? This talk will lead students through how we came to understand that climate change is happening and what we can do as we face a warmer ice free future.
Expert: Warren Raymond Lee Cairns
He is an analytical chemist specialised in trace elemental analysis. His work is to determine the role, fate and toxic effects of heavy metals in the environment and their impact on humanity. All of these parameters are being heavily affected by climate change, so he is a reluctant climate scientist because he has had to study climate change to understand the results he is seeing.
He has participated in 3 Antarctic Expeditions to Concordia Station and Mario Zucchelli Station. He is the Italian Observer on the POPs and Mercury Expert Groups of the Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Program as well as on the Arctic Contaminants Action Program of the Arctic Council.
He has co-authored over 100 publications and he is the coordinator for the Atomic Spectrometry Updates Environmental Analysis review of the Royal Society of Chemistry.
Online lesson in Polish – 23.03 at 9.00
Water from glaciers – discover its super powers!
Where does water come from in the land of ice and snow, and where does it go when the glaciers begin to melt? What flows out from beneath the glaciers with it, why is it cloudy, and what does its composition tell us? I invite you to a lecture on how scientists study polar rivers and lakes and what this research teaches us about climate change.
The lesson, part of the LIQUIDICE project, will be led by Dr. Elżbieta Łepkowska from the University of Silesia in Katowice.