Allen's+Teen+Science+Cafe+Antartica

On March 2nd, I attended a Teen Science Cafe meeting at the Daily Planet cafe in North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences. The subject of this meeting was Expedition Antarctica. The speaker of this presentation is Alex Dornburg, the Research Curator of Ichthyology at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences. During his presentation we played a game of bingo with vocabulary words for candy. These terms are related to ways animals have adapted to the environment such as Antarctica for survival. He later gave a presentation and told us stories about his exciting expedition to Antarctica.

This is related to the course because of global warming. Global warming will drastically increase temperatures on earth and cause ice sheets to melt. Another significant impact of global warming is the disruption of food webs. One example he talked about was the king crab, which will come in and disrupt the Southern Ocean food web.