Mike Lucibella

Science writer and bicycle rider

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🚨🚨🚨 360 VIDEO!! 🚨🚨🚨
Immerse yourself in Science at the Bottom of the World, the first 360 video filmed at all 3 US research stations in #Antarctica!
https://t.co/U53B7ZfNQN

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Thwaites Glacier in #Antarctica is melting fast & could significantly raise sea levels if it collapses. The #ITGC international scientific collaboration is working to figure out how much and how fast it could rise. @GlacierThwaites https://t.co/F9v1aIjEjO
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Scientists sailed to #Antarctica in search of the sparkly mollusks ✨ that call the frigid Southern Ocean home.
https://t.co/C6UjYOqGPR

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Scientists think that encoded in the DNA of sea critters living around #Antarctica is evidence of an ancient sea now completely covered in ice.
https://t.co/WJNF9d8jBL

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🎙️PODCAST: There's a fire department in #Antarctica, where the remote location, dry conditions and high winds make fighting fires and keeping people safe all the more critical.
https://t.co/G3TPhDg9Be

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Donna Fraser and her team of "Birders" study the seabirds in #Antarctica to better understand the region's ecosystem. @PalmerLTER
https://t.co/Rc6yhv0tpo

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Researchers traveled to #Antarctica to study Weddell seal pups — keeping an unbroken 52-year-old data set going strong — despite the ongoing pandemic.
https://t.co/owGaPDYWB8

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Seals in #Antarctica caught on camera singing songs too high-pitched for humans to hear, and scientists don't yet know what these noises are for.
https://t.co/zie21ou84O

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This robotic surfboard spent four months gliding around the Southern Ocean collecting data about the waters and atmosphere surrounding #Antarctica!
https://t.co/E5RGGxtrwr

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Scientists use a swarm of flying robots to map one of the largest Adélie penguin colonies in #Antarctica and are working on an algorithm to automatically count its half million resident birds.
https://t.co/RVGfDuxq1y

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Skuas are amazing birds. It takes a lot of grit to be able to call Antarctica "home sweet home."

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South polar skuas, one of the most infamous inhabitants of #Antarctica, are tenacious survivors that live & thrive on the harshest continent.

Some called them "pirates with feathers and wings” 😀 Why?https://t.co/g66LjYbbS2

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🎙️ PODCAST:
If there's an emergency in #Antarctica, the USAP Search and Rescue Team is ready to spring into action and save whoever needs help.
https://t.co/Z6leqP3jQS

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The BICEP Array, under construction at the South Pole, will peer back in time through the distant cosmos, and study the universe when it was just a fraction of a second old. #Antarctica
https://t.co/WK8v2wUel9

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Up in the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! It's @SuperTigerLDB! The scientific payload flew above 99% of the atmosphere over #Antarctica to detect heavy cosmic rays that bombard our planet.
https://t.co/VrKO7URvx1

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What makes a biological hot spot so hot? Scientists send radar, ocean gliders and underwater moorings to the Palmer Deep off #Antarctica to learn everything they can about the ecosystem in the Southern Ocean.
https://t.co/IWca9YcQs4

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🎙️ PODCAST:
It's a big job keeping hundreds of scientists and staff safe in the remote regions of #Antarctica, and the Field Support & Training team are the experts.
https://t.co/djRNucpCEX

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🎙️ PODCAST:
There are potential hazards everywhere in the harsh environs of #Antarctica. The USAP's Field Support and Training team keeps scientists & support staff safe when working in the field.
https://t.co/djRNucpCEX

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During the cold, dark winter in #Antarctica, scientists launched helium balloons high into the upper atmosphere to study thin clouds of atmospheric particles that affect the climate and ozone layer.
https://t.co/9OMoKCWjE5

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Hercules Dome will be the site of the next big U.S. ice core in #Antarctica. Scientists spent 3 weeks driving over the inhospitable landscape in radar-equipped snowmobiles looking for the perfect spot.
https://t.co/cxae754WY9

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Antarctic midges are the biggest terrestrial land animal in #Antarctica. Scientists sailed along the coast of Antarctica making a genetic map of their migration down the peninsula.
https://t.co/KRAsXQqJUg