Ocean innovation is more important now than ever. That’s why I went down to UC Santa Cruz to spend a day with the Blue Pioneers. I shared how science communication can drive sustainability.

(Antarctica Blog Series Part 3) We’ve reached our final post in this series on the links between Antarctica and our global future. I closed our far-ranging conversation by asking polar oceanographer Dr. Mark Brandon about his vision for the future. Spoiler alert: despite everything we’d talked about, he has hope. Read on to find out why!

(Antarctica Blog Series Part 2) | After hearing polar oceanographer Dr. Mark Brandon’s key insight for policymakers—that Antarctica is coming home to us through rising sea levels, weather changes, and more—I asked him the trillion-dollar question for futureproofing: How would he uncover human impacts in the far South, and extract better insights into how changes in the polar regions are likely to affect us back home?

(Antarctica Blog Series Part 1) | In my previous post in this series, I pointed to Kim Stanley Robinson’s claim that “First you fall in love with Antarctica, and then it breaks your heart.” Here, I ask polar oceanographer Dr. Mark Brandon about the most important thing for policymakers to know about how Antarctica affects the rest of the world.