7 April 2017:
A free, five week course has been developed that will help you learn about and explore more than 500 million years of geological history and 250 years of geographical discovery from Antarctica. Available as a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC), “Antarctica: From Geology to Human History” launches on April 15 2017 on the edX open education platform.
The course has been produced by the Victoria University of Wellington and with support from Antarctica New Zealand, Dr Rebecca Priestley and Dr Cliff Atkins visited Antarctica in 2014 to film lectures on location on Ross Island, in the McMurdo Dry Valleys and the Transantarctic Mountains.
Dr Priestley, a science historian and writer, visits historically important places and talks to some of the people who are part of shaping today’s Antarctica. Dr Atkins, an Antarctic veteran with 12 seasons on the ice, introduces some of the planet’s most remarkable landscapes and the stories they tell about the past and future of the world’s climate.
For more information and to sign up for the course visit: http://tinyurl.com/ice101x