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Around the Americas: Photographing Climate Change in the Arctic

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Channel: FORA.tv · 2010 · News & Politics

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Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/06/01/Around_the_Americas_Expedition_Team

Mark Schrader, Captain and Project Director of Around the Americas, retells the challenge of going the "wrong way" (against the wind and against the current) through the Northwest Passage. Flipping through photos the crew took in Barrow, Alaska, Schrader discusses evidence of climate change in the area.

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This unprecedented expedition began on May 31, 2009, when the ship, Ocean Watch, departed Seattle Washington for a daring voyage through the Northwest Passage, a goal few ships have achieved but which is now possible due to rapid warming of the Arctic.

On the final leg of their trip on their way back to Seattle, the team visits the California Academy of Sciences to talk about their adventure and about the science they have conducted along the way. - California Academy of Sciences

Mark Schrader is Captain of the Ocean Watch and Project Director of Around the Americas. Schrader was a member of the First Team in 1982. He has two single-handed circumnavigations of the world and was the first American to single-handedly circumnavigate the world via the five Southern Capes in 1982-3. He has lived in Washington State for over 35 years and is an avid marine conservationist and wildlife advocate.

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