BEGIN:VCALENDAR METHOD:PUBLISH PRODID:-//github.com/rianjs/ical.net//NONSGML ical.net 4.0//EN URL:https://www.oustudents.com/ents/event/ics/2025/ VERSION:2.0 X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H X-WR-CALNAME:Guardians of the Poles: Why the Arctic and Antarctic Matter ( 2025) BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:GMT Standard Time X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/London BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20241027T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=4SU;BYMONTH=10 TZNAME:GMT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20250330T010000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=-1SU;BYMONTH=3 TZNAME:BST TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Welcome Week CREATED:20250901T162751 DESCRIPTION:https://www.oustudents.com/ents/event/2025/\n DTEND:20251003T130000 DTSTAMP:20260409T111842Z DTSTART:20251003T123000 LAST-MODIFIED:20251003T105658 LOCATION:Microsoft Teams SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Guardians of the Poles: Why the Arctic and Antarctic Matter UID:3c7d2e3c-9a65-404b-9870-2da5773a86ff URL:https://www.oustudents.com/ents/event/2025/ X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\nguardians of the poles with an image of the north pole\n

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We \;may& nbsp\;talk about the polar regions as being the \;&lsquo\;last untouc hed \;wilderness&rsquo\;\, but humans have been in the Arctic for tho usands of years\, and since \;almost our \;earliest contact the A ntarctic was a place of environmental destruction. But these regions  \;aren&rsquo\;t \;just objectively beautiful with amazing wildlife\;& nbsp\;they are critical in the climate system of our planet\, controlling our weather\, and through sea level rise \;indicating \;our futu re\; they are key parts of a planetary system\, and their degradation aff ects us. \;Polar \;researcher \;Mark talks \;about the be auty of the poles\, why we should save them\, and \;how we can do it.  \;

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Mark Brandon is a professor of polar oceanography who h as been at The Open University for 25 years &ndash\; but for almost 3 of those he has been doing field work in Antarctica and the Arctic doing cli mate research on how the oceans are melting the ice sheets. As an OU acad emic he has worked extensively on large broadcast projects including  \;Frozen Planet\, Frozen Planet II\, \;and \;Blue Plane t II. In 2012 he was awarded the \;Times Higher Education Most Innovative Teacher of the Year\, and in 2020 was awarded an MBE for& nbsp\;Services to Polar Science\, and in \;2024 he received th e Polar Medal. \;

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Mark Brandon with Sir David Att enborough filming in Svalbard for Frozen Planet.

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< strong>Mark Brandon with Sir David Attenborough filming in Svalbard for&n bsp\;Frozen Planet.

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