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The mayors of Culture, Clara Valverde, Youth, Education and Francisco Hernandez, Francisco Clemente, today inaugurated Tuesday, February 23, at City Hall "The Placetón", an exhibition on Antarctica.
The University of Murcia, from the Research and by the grant, the project "From Darwin to the Antarctic Scientific Basis" by the Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology (FECYT), proposes and promotes the performance of this traveling exhibition different cultural extension permanent headquarters has distributed throughout the Region, which includes Eagles.
The exhibition, which will remain in Eagles until next Friday, February 26, will be open at 17:30 hours to 19.00 hours, for society in general and from 10:00 to 14:00 hours, for students Primary, ESO, Bachillerato, and Vocational Training and University.
The exhibition aims to encourage business principal disseminator and communication of science to society, telling an Antarctic scientific experience firsthand.
To assess the research results can be seen various scientific photographs and video.
At the same time, talks are conducted by the researchers: Michael Motes and Silvia Jerez Area of Toxicology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Murcia, who have participated in the Antarctic campaign.
These interventions illustrate the experiences in Antarctica, whose starting point is the Beagle Channel to coincide with the journey undertaken by Darwin in the vicinity of Ushuaia.
Antarctica is the driest region, windy and cold on the planet.
It is a continent of volcanic rock permanently covered with ice and snow from several kilometers thick, which surrounds the South Pole.
These conditions have kept the continent inaccessible to man, making it an ideal place to study the dynamics of the planet and the influence of anthropogenic activity.
Since the Antarctic Treaty is the greatest natural laboratory of humanity, for the international scientific research.
Currently 30 countries conduct scientific surveys on the continent and the ocean that surrounds it and have permanent or seasonal basis.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Águilas
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