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UNE’s Stephen Zeeman shares expertise on Antarctica with ‘CTV News Channel’

Stephen Zeeman in Antarctica
Stephen Zeeman in Antarctica

When the news broke that the Ross Sea in Antarctica would become the largest marine protected area in the world, Canadian television network CTV News Channel turned to the 51Ʒ for a marine expert who could shed light on the significance of that announcement.

Stephen Zeeman, Ph.D., professor in the Department of Marine Sciences, traveled to Antarctica earlier this year for a month-long research expedition. In a live interview that aired nationwide in Canada, CTV asked him what protecting 600,000 square miles of ocean means for marine research. Zeeman said it will give scientists the opportunity to study the more than 16,000 species believed to inhabit the region. “This is critically important if we are to understand how the world functions, especially in this region which is, as I said, biologically very rich.”

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