{"id":257,"date":"2016-03-24T09:00:05","date_gmt":"2016-03-24T09:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/?p=257"},"modified":"2016-03-24T12:52:30","modified_gmt":"2016-03-24T12:52:30","slug":"benjamin-pothiers-expedition-to-ngozuma-glacier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/2016\/03\/24\/benjamin-pothiers-expedition-to-ngozuma-glacier\/","title":{"rendered":"Benjamin Pothier&#8217;s Expedition To Ngozuma Glacier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/60\/2016\/03\/Benjamin-Poither.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-medium wp-image-256 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/60\/2016\/03\/Benjamin-Poither-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"Benjamin Poither\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/60\/2016\/03\/Benjamin-Poither-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/60\/2016\/03\/Benjamin-Poither-1024x678.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/60\/2016\/03\/Benjamin-Poither-560x371.jpg 560w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/60\/2016\/03\/Benjamin-Poither-260x172.jpg 260w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/60\/2016\/03\/Benjamin-Poither-160x106.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Photographer, documentary film director and \u00a0anthropology researcher, <a href=\"http:\/\/benipi.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Benjamin Pothier<\/a>, is joining Dr Ulyana Horodyskyj, a glaciologist and climate change educator trained as a Scientist-Astronaut in the PoSSUM program, for an expedition to Ngozumpa Glacier in Nepal in May-June 2016.<\/p>\n<p>The team will conduct scientific research into\u00a0glacier melting that could become a threat to the population nearby, repair a weather station which was destroyed during the 2015 earthquake and plan to make a donation of a solar power system to a Sherpa community in need.<\/p>\n<p>Benjamin is a PhD candidate in\u00a0Plymouth University&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www6.plymouth.ac.uk\/researchcover\/rcp.asp?pagetype=G&amp;page=273\" target=\"_blank\">Planetary Collegium<\/a> programme. With three previous expeditions to\u00a0the Arctic Circle, his work and research has been presented worldwide from Johannesburg to Troms\u00f8, at the world&#8217;s northernmost university. He plans to direct a documentary about the expedition, and\u00a0also to test innovative gear and devices\u00a0including\u00a0dehydrated space food and new techwear products.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photographer, documentary film director and \u00a0anthropology researcher, Benjamin Pothier, is joining Dr Ulyana Horodyskyj, a glaciologist and climate change educator trained as a Scientist-Astronaut in the PoSSUM program, for an expedition to Ngozumpa Glacier in Nepal in May-June 2016. The team will conduct scientific research into\u00a0glacier melting that could become a threat to the population&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/2016\/03\/24\/benjamin-pothiers-expedition-to-ngozuma-glacier\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Benjamin Pothier&#8217;s Expedition To Ngozuma Glacier<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":166,"featured_media":256,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,138],"tags":[125,52,126],"class_list":["post-257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-transdisciplinary-creative-practices","tag-benjamin-pothier","tag-photography","tag-planetary-collegium","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/166"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":268,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257\/revisions\/268"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}