Ocean Station Obama

by Andrew Read, Ph.D.|Published January 20, 2017

The Palmer LTER crew recognized President Obama’s efforts to combat global warming by collecting climate data at an oceanographic station they named for the 44th president. The scientific crew, including our own Dave Johnston, who are on a five-week expedition aboard the U.S. icebreaker Laurence M. Gould, will stop at Ocean Station Obama, located at 67°46 South, 68°51 West in Antarctica’s Marguerite Bay. You can read more here.