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L schooner Tara left yesterday, its home port of Lorient in a spring freshness to win the Arctic region more icy. This is the last piece of the giant puzzle that the team formed around Etienne Bourgois – son of fashion designer Agnes B. – Wants to complete: a huge map of the plankton, which represents 98% of the mass of living organisms in the ocean, but we do not know more than 10% today. “To better understand the Arctic ecosystem, we must decipher the interactions of planktonic systems with the environment,” says Chris Bowler Columbia, responsible for scientific coordination. “This is to make an inventory of the Arctic before the place is too impacted by man. This will be the starting point for all other analyzes in ten, twenty or a hundred years … . “
A seven-month missionIf there is no fire to the ice, the Arctic remains relatively preserved urgency is not far, as the CNRS researcher: “A sea route to the north-east will open. It will be a highway near the Arctic. But if there is any problem, it will be a disaster for the ecosystem because there is no harbor or infrastructure. Imagine an oil spill there! However, the road to the north is faster (and 40% less) than the south, policymakers will quickly increase the flow passage … “. Paradoxically, it is the deterioration of the ice and climate change that should make it possible to shift the schooner Tara, designed for cold waters. And marine scientists will intersect in a single summer in the waters of Russia and Canada, making a small circle of 25,000 km, which will last seven months. “We will sample the Russian side and the Canadian side, which is very rare for a single shipment,” slips passing Chris Bowler, in a note more pleasing.
True Adventu reTara will take a mythical way, long considered impassable. The road north-east and north-west was made to navigation since a few years. “Tara is the third boat to go right round the Arctic. There is a very important next adventure on this expedition, we did not have the same level of other shipments of Tara, “further notes Chris Bowler. “It was less extreme. The Arctic is a very hostile place for humans, with sea conditions can deteriorate very quickly, temperatures down to – 10 º C, storms, wind, fog and ice floating around. Not to mention the polar bears … Passage northeast and then northwest way: it is not said that it happens. There are risks. ” Lorient will watch Tara sails on the horizon December, returning from his Odyssey, the bunkers full of plankton, stories and hope.
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