Mystery beneath the ice / a Nova production by Dox Productions for WGBH ; writer and director, David Sington ; executive producers, Emmanuel Laurent, Martin de la Fouchardière, David Sington ; producer, Heather Walsh.



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Documentary. Widescreen presentation; stereo. Originally produced as an episode of the television series: Nova. Running time indicated on container: approximately 60 minutes; actual program running time: 54 minutes. Originally broadcast by PBS January 20, 2016. TV Parental Guidelines rating: TV-G (general audience; most parents would find this program suitable for all ages). Editor, David Fairhead ; music, Tal Zana. Narration, Jay O. Sanders ; commentators, Hugh Ducklow, Oscar Schofield, Christine Klaas. In English with optional English subtitles.

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Mystery beneath the ice / a Nova production by Dox Productions for WGBH ; writer and director, David Sington ; executive producers, Emmanuel Laurent, Martin de la Fouchardière, David Sington ; producer, Heather Walsh.
Artist
Sington, David, television director, television producer, screenwriter.
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English
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Abstract
Examines how increasing temperatures are causing diminished populations of krill, a small, shrimp-like crustacean integral to the Anarctic ecosystem. Chronicles the efforts of a team of researchers to find juvenile krill inside caves within the Antarctic ice pack. , "They're so tiny you might not notice them if you weren't looking for them. But these delicate, transparent, shrimp-like creatures are crucial to the Antarctic ecosystem and, maybe to the future of all our oceans. The population of krill has crashed since the 1970s for reasons that continue to baffle the experts. A leading theory says that krill's life cycle is driven by an internal body clock that responds to the waxing and waning of the Antarctica ice pack. As climate change alters the timing of the ice pack, their life cycle is disrupted-or so the theory goes. To test it, NOVA travels on the Polastern, a state-of-the-art research vessel, to a place rarely, if ever, visited before: the vast ice pack that grows around Antarctica in the winter months, a frigid seasonal continent twice the size of the U.S. The Polarstern fights it ways through the pack to establish camps on the ice, from which scientists dive beneath the surface in search of the ice caves in which juvenile krill shelter during the winter. The implications go well beyond the Antarctic ecosystem, for it's through similar shifts in the timing of the seasons that climate change may have its most devastating impact on the natural world across the globe."--Container.
Year
2016
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