ANTA103

Antarctica: Life in the Cold

15 points

Not offered 2024, offered in 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021

For further information see School of Earth and Environment

Description

This introductory course focuses on biology and explores how plants, microbes, animals and humans adapt to living in the extreme environments of the Antarctic, the sub-Antarctic and the Southern Ocean. Low temperatures and periods of total darkness are just some of the extremes to be endured. Discussion includes human psychology, and our interaction with the polar region lying at New Zealand's back door.