COASTANTAR 2024 Expedition, The First Portuguese Scientific Sailing Expedition To The Antarctic Peninsula.

LISBON, PORTUGAL - JANUARY 26: Professor Gonçalo Vieira, expedition coordinator, points to a projected map while delivering remarks during the public presentation of "COASTANTAR2024, the first Portuguese scientific sailing Expedition to the Antarctic Peninsula, at the Lisbon University on January 26, 2024, in Lisbon, Portugal. The Portuguese Polar Program (PROPOLAR/FCT) has teamed up with the University of Lisbon's College of Polar Sciences and Extreme Environments (POLAR2E/ULISBOA) to organize the COASTANTAR 2024 Expedition, the first Portuguese scientific sailing expedition to the Antarctic Peninsula. The COASTANTAR expedition, based on a low-cost, low-environmental impact logistical model and aiming to make observations on the changes taking place in the Antarctic Peninsula's coastal and hardest-to-reach regions, with the aim of consolidating models for the future of the region, will be carried on by an interdisciplinary team of 10 scientists from the universities of Lisbon, Algarve and Coimbra and guests from the Autonomous University of Madrid and the Pontifical University of Chile who will be at sea for 15 days next February on a 79 foot sailboat. (Photo by Horacio Villalobos#Corbis/Corbis via Getty Images)