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Of information between the tourists but the tourists can help with the science. this professor has a five year research grant from the us national science foundation to study snow algae and how it affects the rate that snow melts, but she can't spent five years straight in antarctica so joining a trip like this works well for her. i am able to collect some samples and data for my research and i can use some of the facilities on the ship, such as the microscopes, to look at the samples and also work with the tourists to show them what i am sampling in the snow. most of the ship's expedition cre...

This professor has a five year research grant from the us national science foundation to study snow algae and how it affects the rate that snow melts, but she can't spend five years straight in antarctica so joining a trip like this works well for her. i am able to collect some samples and data for my research and i can use some of the facilities on the ship, such as the microscopes, to look at the samples and also work with the tourists to show them what i am sampling in the snow. most of the ship's expedition crew also have science backgrounds and help run citizen science projects for the pa...