On the 15th of May, Alexandre Trindade presented a talk about “Climate Change and Permafrost in the Antarctic Peninsula”.  The invitation came from the Program Eco-Escolas of the Torres Novas district, a program of the European Blue Flag Association. This program encourages work and activities about environmental education in schools. This year themes are water, waste, energy, biological agriculture, climate change and forest.
The lecture had the participation of over 200 students of several ages, and focused on climate change, especially in the Antarctic Peninsula, permafrost research and on the Portuguese Antarctic campaigns. The lecture lasted about 30 minutes and was followed by a 20 minute debate. 

Revealing the secrets of permafrost. Studying permafrost enables us to look not only into the past, but also into the future. Miguel Ángel de Pablo, Miguel Ramos, Gonçalo Vieira and Antonio Molina explain.

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João Agrela is now ending his 1 year contract at ANTECC where he has been involved with project PERMANTAR-2 and also collaborating with HOLOANTAR activities. He has collaborated in the logistics of the 2011-12 Antarctic campaign, mainly has a responsible for organizing and shipping equipment and he has also participated in the field work in Livingston and King George Islands from December 2011 to February 2012. João has been an excellent partner in all activities at ANTECC and he will be missed in our group.
Thanks a lot João and we hope that you'll get back to work with us soon!