June 16 was a free day in Hobart, all took in the Salamanca market near the waterfront.
June 17:
June 17 Sunday was a chance for our group to learn about the Antarctic facilities and research efforts underway at both the Institute for Antarctic and Southern Ocean Studies (IASOS at the Univ. of Tasmania) and the Australian Governments Antarctic Division.
Fig. 44: Students are greeted and introduced the complex of buildings that comprise the Australian Antarctic Division, the funding, logistical, and scientific agency that handles most work in Antarctic Territory.
Fig 49: Dr. Patti Virtue explains the colored cultures of diatoms that are used to feed the world’s only sustainable Antarctic krill aquariums. These diatoms are each dominated by a different chlorophyll pigment and all are needed to provide proper nutrition to the Division’s krill stocks which are kept in large circular tanks.
Fig 50. Rick M. and Andrew D. admire the life size mount of the Patagonian Toothfish, a southern ocean threatened species due to over fishing and illegal global marketing.
Fig 51. Here in the seminar room at the IASOS the institute’s director Dr. Andrew McMinn explains the mission of the institute and the opportunities available to students through the International Antarctic Institute (which Hamilton College is a founding member).
