HURTIGRUTEN Cruises will continue to build on its sustainability program by welcoming a raft of scientists on board its ships during the 2019 and 2020 seasons to help support marine conservation projects. Speaking with CW, the company’s Managing Director APAC Damian Perry said the line was well positioned to help...
HURTIGRUTEN Cruises will continue to build on its sustainability program by welcoming a raft of scientists on board its ships during the 2019 and 2020 seasons to help support marine conservation projects.
Speaking with CW, the company’s Managing Director APAC Damian Perry said the line was well positioned to help make a valuable contribution to data collection initiatives.
“We’re very heavily engaged in the science and we are doing so much research and so much work because we are going to remote areas which aren’t easy to access and we are using our facilities and our ships to continue science programs and actually share that data and information with universities around the world,” Perry said.
Scientists from environmental organisation Oceanities will be welcomed aboard two MS Fram trips to the Falkland Islands, South Georgia and Antarctica from 30 Dec, where they will use the ship to monitor and analyse penguin and bird populations in the warming Antarctic Peninsula.
Further projects include a collaboration with scientist Allison Cusick from the SCRIPPS Institution of Oceanography, who will be on board Roald Amundsen in Antarctica to collect phytoplankton through the Citizen Science project FjordPhyto, to determine the impact of increasing melt-water on phytoplankton populations.
