Welcome back to our Polar Times mini-series: “Our changing oceans : from Ancient Waters to Modern Crisis” episode 2/3.

In this episode, we are very happy to welcome post-docs Dr. Nan Wu and Dr. Emily Rowlands and PhD student Alena Sakovich from British Antarctic Survey (BAS), an UK-based organization!

We discuss especially about the CUPIDO project that stands for CalcUlating the strength of the Plastic pump in counteracting the Deep export of Oceanic carbon.

In our next episode, we will be joined by Dr. Melanie Bergmann, a professor at Alfred-Wegener Institut, Germany. Stay tuned!

Technical details: 

Podcast host: Nadia Frontier, Nathalie Nickells, Nastasia Freyria and Emilie Pillon 

Guests: Nan Wu, Emily Rowlands and Alena Sakovich

Editing: Emilie Pillon and Nadia Frontier

Mastering: Nadia Frontier

Recorded on Thursday 8th May 2025 with Riverside FM

Covert art: modified by Nastasia Freyria from original idea by Matthew Nelson, Nicholas Parlato, and Damien Ringeisen 

Music: "Scuba" by Metre, Nul Tiel Records, UK (unaltered) CC BY-NC-SA

This podcast is produced by APECS, the Association for Polar Early Career Scientists.