The 19-person scientific delegation consisting of researchers from the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Türkiye (TÜBITAK), the Naval Forces Command, General Directorate of Mapping, General Directorate of Meteorology and Anadolu Agency (AA) returned again to Türkiye some 34 days after finishing its designated scientific missions in Antarctica.
Turkish scientific groups that spent their mission within the camp positioned on Horseshoe Island in residing house inside the 80-meter (262.47-foot) Chilean flagged analysis ship “Betanzos” has completed the execution of some 18 completely different tasks together with earth sciences, life sciences, bodily and social sciences.
Leader of the seventh National Antarctic Science Expedition Capt. Özgün Oktar famous in his assertion to the AA that the members of their expedition reached Brazil and Chile inside the scope of the expedition to Antarctica for the 2022-2023 season, which takes place between January-March.
“We visited many foreign science bases and carried out studies to increase the visibility of Türkiye in the area. During the expedition, we increased the extent of our international cooperation with three foreign researchers,” Oktar famous.
Naming the primary analysis matters Oktar mentioned the main focus was positioned on “climate change and the differences created by human impact on the polar regions” including that inside the scope of the tasks undertaken, they’ve collected many samples, together with seawater, residing and micro-living samples, and performed the required measurements.
”Türkiye’s presence in Antarctica is kind of excessive, it will be important. We try to offer added worth for the nation by means of educational publications and conferences by telling the world about Türkiye’s success on this discipline,” Oktar defined.
Flags at half-mast
The captain additionally famous their staff had acquired the news of the earthquake throughout their voyage by means of satellite tv for pc telephones and mentioned, “We are at a degree the place the move of knowledge and communication may be very weak. Of course, first, everybody tried by calling to make sure their family members and family had been effectively.”
”We gathered the news that each one of our expedition crew’s shut family had been effectively, however sadly, we realized that a lot of our residents misplaced their lives,” Oktar famous.
”As a part of the continued nationwide mourning in our nation, we additionally lowered our Turkish flag to half-mast in our camp in Antarctica,” he added. ”We did our greatest to serve the scientific neighborhood and our nation in the very best means,” Oktar maintained.
Professor Burcu Özsoy, the seventh National Antarctic Science Expedition coordinator, who was at Istanbul Airport to greet the expedition staff, famous that it was essential for Turkish scientists to search out essentially the most correct answer to local weather change in Antarctica and to measure how the local weather change occurring in Antarctica is mirrored in the remainder of the world.
“Our scientific research have been realized with success, even extraordinary success,” she mentioned, including that ”science reveals nice details with knowledge.”
Medical help
Medical professionals from two completely different branches joined the National Antarctic Science Expedition as effectively finishing up a challenge relating to the exploration of persona traits, and developmental traits of individuals throughout their work in arduous instances.
Professor Dr. Hayriye Elbi from Ege University’s Mental Health and Diseases Faculty of Medicine and her colleague Dr. Cenan Hepdurgun famous they analyzed intimately the motivation of staff members in the course of the expedition, how they ready for such a process, their adaptability and motivational developmental traits, and produced complete take a look at supplies on the topic.
They defined they performed conferences and negotiations for exams previous to and in the course of the voyage, noting they may reevaluate them and can maintain suggestions talks, in addition to put together new exams after the top of the expedition.
On the opposite hand, Dr. Çağrı Can Makar, one other member of the expedition, and assistant at Istanbul University’s Faculty of Underwater Medicine and Hyperbaric Medicine Department, underlined that Antarctica’s geographical constraints and ship services are working with restricted medical capability.
“No one who comes here does a single job here,” mentioned Makar. “I had the prospect to shortly intervene of their issues. Due to the lengthy journey, two individuals had jetlag signs and a few 5 individuals had movement illness resulting from ocean waves,” he added.
The Turkish scientists who took half within the expedition carried out below the auspices of the Presidency and coordinated by TÜBITAK MAM Polar Research Institute (KARE) visited the Pedro Vicente Maldonado Base of Ecuador, which was opened in 1990 on Greenwich Island within the west of the Antarctic Peninsula, as a part of the bilateral cooperation maintained by the TÜBİTAK MAM Polar Research Institute.
The staff paid a go to to the widespread residing areas and laboratories within the station and acquired data from scientists working within the discipline.
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