When you’re frightened about summer season warmth setting on San Antonio too shortly, the Alamo Group of the Sierra Membership is providing a free presentation this Tuesday that might decrease the temp.
The group’s Tales from the Antarctica Presentation will delve into Ice Station Weddell, a drifting analysis station within the Antarctic Sea run cooperatively by america and Russia and masking the identical space during which Ernest Shackleton’s ship Endurance was crushed by pack ice and sank in 1915.
The realm proved helpful in offering the primary trendy measurements of sea ice thickness, density, ocean circulation and polar ecosystems.
Presenter Stephen Ackley, affiliate professor of analysis, earth and planetary sciences at UT-San Antonio, will talk about his 30-plus years of navigating this unforgiving terrain, its distinctive logistical anomalies and the findings of the primary scientific station constructed on a bobbing platform of roving sea ice.
Free, 6-8 p.m. Tuesday, March 17, William R. Sinkin Eco Centro, 1802 N. Major Ave., (210) 486-0417, sierraclub.org.
