During an expedition to the Southern Ocean, microbial ecologist Jane Younger tests Antarctic marine life, including penguins, for bird flu to better understand how the pathogen is spreading around the continent and the globe.
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Younger and a team of scientists on the Schmidt Ocean Institute’s R.V. Falkor (too) set a course for the dead seals’ last location. The group was part of the National Geographic and Rolex Perpetual Planet Ocean Expeditions, an expansive project sending researchers to study the Earth’s five oceans. After three and a half days navigating icy waters in December of last year, they arrived. But by then, everything had changed. An ice edge had broken into small pieces, which made searching the large area by ship hopeless. So they launched a drone.
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