Beneath the Blooming Ice

Opening at NZ IceFest 2014, Beneath the Blooming Ice is an exhibition created by science communicati

Come get immersed under the ice for Antarctica's season of plenty: the annual plankton bloom. Look down the microscope to see live phytoplankton, and learn how sunshine makes them grow. Find out how these tiny organisms feed animals as big as whales, and how they suck up carbon from the air. Come Beneath the Blooming Ice, and see what big things these tiny plankton do.