Space2Sea Antarctica marks the inaugural voyage in a sequence produced by FUTURE of SPACE (FoS). This revolutionary journey blends Earth’s uncharted territories with the inspiring narrative of human curiosity and exploration. It encapsulates the core mission of FoS to: Embrace New Frontiers, Have fun the Human Expertise, and Elevate the Dialog. Pupil journalist Gabe Castro-Root of American College is chronicling the mission for FoS. You’ll be able to learn his newest dispatch beneath.
The primary indication I’d have the chance to report from Antarctica got here within the type of a frantic sequence of texts from a buddy lower than two months in the past.
I had simply stepped into a gathering when my telephone buzzed, so I couldn’t learn the messages instantly. All I might make out from a fast look was “Antarctica” and “GABE DO THIS.”
An hour glided by earlier than I might work out what was occurring. “A visit to Antarctica appears too good to be true,” I assumed, making an attempt to tame my expectations. However once I caught up on texts and emails, it turned out to be precisely that — one spot for a journalism scholar from my college to accompany legendary explorers and science communicators to Antarctica.
Gabe Castro-Root is a scholar journalist from American College chronicling the Space2Sea Antarctica expedition with the FUTURE of SPACE initiative.
I research at American College in Washington, D.C., a metropolis the place college students have distinctive entry to highly effective establishments and the experiential studying alternatives they provide. However this was totally different. This was an opportunity to see up shut what science and exploration appear to be in one in every of Earth’s most distant corners. I’m immensely grateful that AU’s Faculty of Communication noticed worth in my environmental reporting background and chosen me to hitch this expedition.
All through my week in Antarctica I’ll be asking questions, writing, taking photographs and commonly sharing what I study with the surface world. I, together with a powerful workforce of filmmakers, researchers and explorers, will go to websites of nice historic import comparable to Elephant Island, the place Ernest Shackleton and his crew took refuge within the early 1900s, and of modern-day significance, just like the Ukrainian Vernadsky analysis base. That go to is especially important as a result of our ship will deliver to the bottom two Ukrainian military veterans who’ve lengthy hoped to journey there.
The objectives of Way forward for Area, the expedition organizer, are lofty — “Embrace new frontiers, have fun the human expertise, and elevate the dialog.”
Mine are extra modest: to seek out tales that spark curiosity and make readers need to know extra. Should you study one thing new, I’ve accomplished my job.
This text was offered by Space2Sea Antarctica and FUTURE of SPACE. For extra data on the expedition and FoS go to the Space2Sea Antarctica expedition website, and the FUTURE of SPACE initiative.
