Antartica+gl

I attended the Antartica Lecture at the Teen Science Cafe on March 2. We started off with learning about extinction and playing Extinction Bingo, and then the speaker began his talk. The speaker studies death and recently went on an expedition to Antartica where he spent a lot of time near the reefs. He spends most of his time doing genomic work (work with DNA and biotechnology). The speaker discussed how Antartica's sea life is being impacted by rising global temperatures. He also discussed the lemur extinction research in Madagascar and where their rainforests came from.

This TSC overlaps with the curriculum and things we learn in this course. The overlaps include biological extinction (when a species is no longer found anywhere on earth), habitats (the physical location where organisms making up a species live), and population dynamics (the change in size, density, dispersion, and age distribution in a population in response to environmental stress or changes in the environment, we recorded the population numbers of the species we observed).