Our Projects
As part of our expedition, we will be undertaking projects as individuals and a project as a group as a way of contributing to knowledge of our polar regions. Our hope is that what we learn from our time in the Arctic will aid scientific research. We also aim to share our findings with supporters back home.
Individual Projects
As part of our objectives to support polar research, all participants and leaders will be undertaking a personal project. Current project themes include:
- health, fitness and wellbeing on boats
- historic and present day forms of navigation
- understanding the changes in landscape and atmosphere
- story telling and writing an ethnography
- marine ecology and aquatic life.
In due course, we will start to publish more information about our studies and projects.
Developing Our Research Skills
To help us refine and develop our research skills so that our information and data can be used by other researchers, we undertook a specialist skills day to learn how to collect data, set parameters for our projects and methods to ensure the efficacy of our projects. We were fortunate enough to learn from an organisation, who is greatly involved in conservation and surveying, Wildwood Trust. To learn more about what we got up to, click the link here.
Image taken from the International School Manila
Group Project
Our current group project idea is influenced by the ever-growing concern for plastic pollution, notably microplastics. Microplastics are plastics that breakdown in our water ways but never truly degrade and disappear. Instead these minuscule pieces of plastic build up in digestive systems of marine animals. Such accumulation causes toxicity and ill health to animals and humans alike.
Image from the Forbes article: The Invisible Threat: How Microplastics Are Poisoning Our Health And What We Can Do About It by Bill Frist. Published 13th March 2025.