Oceanographer Oscar Schofield and a team of researchers try to understand climate change by studying its effects on a rapidly declining species of penguin.In 2014, scientists declared West Antarctic ice sheet melt unstoppable, threatening the future of our planet. A group of world-class researchers is in a race to understand climate change in the fastest winter-warming place on earth: the West Antarctic Peninsula. Trekking through dangerous and uncharted landscape, these scientists push the limits of their research and come to terms with the sacrifices necessary to understand this rapidly changing world.
Director: Dena Seidel
Genres: Documentary
Distributor: First Run
Storyline
In 2014, scientists declared West Antarctic ice sheet melt unstoppable, threatening the future of our planet. A group of world-class researchers is in a race to understand climate change in the fastest winter-warming place on earth: the West Antarctic Peninsula. Trekking through dangerous and uncharted landscape, these scientists push the limits of their research and come to terms with the sacrifices necessary to understand this rapidly changing world.
About Movie
Take another expedition to the end of the world and encounter the next important climate change documentary with Antarctic Edge: 70° South, for which we’re happy to premiere this new trailer. The documentary, directed by Dena Seidel, presents the work of the National Science Foundation’s Long Term Ecological Research Project at Palmer in the West Antarctic Peninsula. And from what I can tell from this footage, it’s as much an adventure doc as issue film. If you like what you see, it opens in New York on April 17, 2015.
For the last twenty-years, oceanographer Oscar Schofield and his team have witnessed rapid change in the West Antarctic Peninsula. Winter sea ice has declined by three months and temperatures have increased by 11 degrees Fahrenheit, six times greater than the global average. In 2014, experts declared Antarctic ice sheet melt unstoppable, placing the pressure on Schofield and his team. Their mission: to study the vulnerable wildlife populations along the West Antarctic Peninsula, particularly the Adelie Penguin whose populations have declined by 90%. For Schofield and his crew, these declining birds are the greatest indicator of climate change and are a harbinger of what is to come. While navigating through 60-foot waves and dangerous icebergs on a world-class icebreaker, these scientists must travel to 70° South—a rugged and inhospitable island called Charcot—with an arsenal of cutting-edge technology that will revolutionize how climate change is studied. There, they hope to study a fragile Adelie population living in a true polar climate.
There is urgent need to improve science communication to the general public. Too often research narratives fail to illustrate the excitement, challenges and passion required to explore the planet. As such, the Rutgers Film Bureau—a professional documentary office that directly engages undergraduate students in the production of its films—has partnered with the Rutgers Institute for Marine and Coastal Sciences to create a multi-tiered documentary film project featuring the transformative science of the National Science Foundation’s LTER project at Palmer Station.
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