Bacteria collected on the sedimental floor beneath Mertz glacier, on the Antarctic continent, as part of Christel Hassler's project (University of Geneva).
Six months after the Antarctic Circumnavigation Expedition ended, the teams that ran the 22 scientific projects are hard at work sorting through the many samples they collected. Some preliminary findings were announced during a conference in Crans Montana organized by the Swiss Polar Institute, who just appointed Konrad Steffen as new academic director. Nearly 30,000 samples were taken during the Antarctic Circumnavigation Expedition (ACE). And now, barely six months after the voyage ended, the research teams tasked with analyzing the samples have already produced some initial figures and findings. These were presented in Crans Montana during a conference put together earlier this week by the Swiss Polar Institute (SPI), the EPFL-based entity that ran the expedition. The event, called "High altitudes meet high latitudes," brought together world-renowned experts in polar and alpine research in an exercise aimed at highlighting the many similarities between these two fields of study. Over the course of three months - from December 2016 to March 2017 - 160 researchers from 23 different countries sailed around the Great White Continent on board a Russian icebreaker.
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