South Pole | Antarctic Science & Polar Exploration
by Pine Forest Media | Environmental Science Podcasts · 26 episodes
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South Pole is an Antarctica podcast exploring the science, wildlife, history, and human stories of the world’s southernmost continent. Hosted by science communicator Clark Marchese, each episode features conversations with the researchers, historians, explorers, policymakers, artists, and conservation practitioners working to understand Antarctica and its global importance.Travel from ice shelves, glaciers, and Southern Ocean ecosystems to Antarctic wildlife, climate change, sea level rise, and the remarkable research made possible at the South Pole. The series also examines polar exploration, overlooked histories, literature, tourism, environmental law, and the Antarctic Treaty System that governs the continent.Whether you are an An...
Latest episodes
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24 min
24. What is Antarctic Blue Carbon?
Antarctic seafloor life stores carbon for centuries. Marine ecologist Dr. Narissa Bax explains Antarctic blue carbon, the carbon captured and stored by marine organisms and ocean h…
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49 min
23. Elephant Seals Can Be Scientists Too
Elephant seals collect data beneath the Southern Ocean. Dr. Clive McMahon explains how researchers equip southern elephant seals with miniature conductivity, temperature, and depth…
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29 min
22. Breaking the Ice Ceiling: Jackie Ronne’s Antarctic Expedition
Jackie Ronne changed who could explore Antarctica. Polar historian Dr. Joanna Kafarowski recounts how Ronne joined the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition in 1947 as a full expedit…
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37 min
21. The Antarctic Treaty System: A Continent for Science and Peace
The Antarctic Treaty turned rivalry into cooperation. Political and environmental philosopher Dr. Alejandra Mancilla traces how overlapping territorial claims, international tensio…
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2 min
NEW Science Pod: Oceanography (Trailer)
Pine Forest Media is proud to present Oceanography, a new podcast hosted by South Pole creator Clark Marchese. This weekly series explores the science and global cooperation needed…
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33 min
20. Putting Antarctic Women on the Map with Carol Devine
Women are written across the map of Antarctica. Researcher and writer Carol Devine connects two projects exploring polar history and environmental stewardship. Mapping Antarctic Wo…
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37 min
19. Antarctic Permafrost, Cold Dirt, and a Greening Continent
Antarctic soil offers a preview of a warmer continent. Geomorphologist and planetary scientist Dr. Joe Levy takes listeners into the McMurdo Dry Valleys, where water, ice, salt, mi…
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38 min
18. Antarctic Soundscapes and Musicology: the Not So Silent Continent
Antarctica is not as silent as it first appears. Musicologist and Antarctic studies scholar Dr. Carolyn Philpott explores how sound, silence, and music shape the ways people experi…
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35 min
17. What if Antarctica had legal personhood? with Cormac Cullinan
A legal movement wants Antarctica to have rights. Environmental lawyer Cormac Cullinan introduces Earth jurisprudence, the rights of nature, and the Antarctic Rights initiative. Wh…
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45 min
16. Antarctic Ice Cores and Paleoclimatology
Ancient air survives inside Antarctic ice cores. Antarctic climate scientist Dr. Tas van Ommen explains how compacted layers of snow preserve atmospheric gases, dust, volcanic sulp…
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32 min
15. Antarctic Krill: where science, governance, and industry meet with Dr. Javier Arata
Antarctic krill connects wildlife, fishing, and policy. Marine biologist Dr. Javier Arata explains how a tiny crustacean supports penguins, seals, whales, and entire Southern Ocean…
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43 min
14. Biodiversity, Food Webs, and Climate Resilience in Antarctica
Squid beaks can reveal an entire Antarctic food web. Marine ecologist Dr. José Xavier explains how researchers use squid beak identification and predator diets to trace the relatio…
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26 min
13. Exploring Antarctica's Wildlife from Space
Satellites found fewer Weddell seals than expected. Dr. Michelle LaRue explains how satellite wildlife monitoring is transforming the study of Antarctic wildlife, including Weddell…
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34 min
12. Antarctic Ice Sheet Loss and Sea Level Rise
Antarctic ice holds 57 metres of sea level rise potential. That figure represents the theoretical effect of melting the entire Antarctic ice sheet, not a near-term prediction. Ice…
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24 min
11. Lincoln Ellsworth and the first flight across Antarctica with Jeff Maynard
Lincoln Ellsworth crossed Antarctica by air in 1935. Yet the explorer behind this landmark achievement nearly disappeared from polar history. Jeff Maynard, author of Antarctica’s L…
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19 min
10. Parasitology and Elephant Seal Lice
Seal lice survive underwater with their diving hosts. Parasitologist Dr. Soledad Leonardi explores the coevolution of seals, sea lions, and the blood-feeding lice that followed the…
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27 min
9. IceCube and Astrophysics in Antarctica
IceCube turns Antarctic ice into a cosmic detector. Astrophysicist Dr. Jim Madsen explains how the IceCube Neutrino Observatory uses instruments embedded deep in South Pole ice to…
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21 min
8. Avian Flu in Antarctica
Avian influenza has reached Antarctic wildlife. Wildlife disease specialist Dr. Meagan Dewar explains how highly pathogenic avian influenza, or HPAI, spread through wild bird popul…
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30 min
7. Antarctic Literature and Public Perception
Stories have shaped how the world imagines Antarctica. Literature scholar Dr. Elizabeth Leane joins Clark Marchese to explore how novels, poetry, film, and expedition narratives cr…
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40 min
6. Antarctic Toothfish, Climate Genomics, and the Southern Ocean
Antarctic fish evolved to survive below freezing. Marine biologist Dr. Jilda Alicia Caccavo introduces the pelagic notothenioids, the fish group that dominates much of the Antarcti…