Please join Tabor Academy in welcoming oceanographer and science photographer Chris Linder to campus for our first Science at Work Lecture Series on March 30 at 6:30 pm in the Stroud Academic Center, Tabor Academy, 232 Front Street, Marion. For over a decade, Linder has focused on communicating the stories of scientists working in the Arctic and Antarctic. He has documented dozens of scientific expeditions and has spent over two years of his life exploring the polar regions.
“Polar exploration is at once the cleanest and most isolated way of having a bad time which has been devised,” wrote Apsley Cherry-Garrard of his time with the 1910 Scott expedition to the South Pole. And that’s how most of us still imagine polar expeditions: stolid men with ice riming their beards risking death for scientific knowledge. But polar science has evolved over the past century. Using images from the Adelie penguin chapter of his book Science on Ice and recent work in Siberia, oceanographer-turned-photographer Chris Linder will demonstrate the power of photography to inspire the next generation of scientists.
Mr. Linder will spend the day in classrooms on March 30 with Tabor Academy students and faculty before sharing his work with the local community at 6:30 pm at this free evening lecture.