What Happens in Antarctica Affects You More Than You Think

Antarctica may feel distant, frozen, and disconnected from everyday life, but what happens there can shape sea level rise, ocean circulation, climate systems, and the future health of marine ecosystems around the world. In this episode of How to Protect the Ocean , part of the Surfacing Secrets: Explore the Ocean, Know the Planet series with Ocean Networks Canada , we go behind the scenes of an international mission to install real-time ocean monitoring systems in one of the hardest places on Earth to study. Joining me are Juanjo Canales , a marine scientist from Spain with decades of experience in ocean technology and Antarctic research, Bradley Wells , an engineer from Ocean Networks Canada who helped design and deploy the observatory systems, and Ruchie Custan , who shares her experience working on this groundbreaking expedition. Together, they reveal what it takes to bring advanced ocean science into one of the most remote environments on the planet. This conversation explores why Antarctica has remained one of the least observed places on Earth, how new subsea observatories are changing that, and why better data from the polar ocean could help us understand the future of climate and marine ecosystems worldwide. Follow How to Protect the Ocean for weekday ocean science updates.

You can listen to What Happens in Antarctica Affects You More Than You Think online on Radio and Podcast. Open the player on this page to stream the available audio.

What Happens in Antarctica Affects You More Than You Think is an episode from Speak Up For The Ocean Blue by Andrew Lewin - Marine Biologist and Ocean Conservationist.

This episode is 01:01:05 long.

This episode was published on Apr 17, 2026.

Yes. Use the heart button on the episode page to add it to your favorite episodes list.

Yes. This page shows related episodes from Speak Up For The Ocean Blue when more episodes are available from the podcast feed.