WINNERS OF THE 2009 ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY (WITH IBG) ‘GO BEYOND’ BURSARY
Welcome to Atlantic Rising
Atlantic Rising is a charity on a 32,000 mile journey circumnavigating the Atlantic overland along the 1m contour line. This is the level scientists predict sea levels may reach in the next 100 years.
Along the way we are creating an educational network between 15,000 students in low-lying coastal communities. Through our photography, films and writing, we are also documenting what will be lost if these predictions come true.
We don't claim to have all the solutions to stop sea levels from rising. But we hope our work will help the next generation understand their responsibility to each other to build a sustainable future.
Last week
23/08/2010 - Lynn and Tim were on a ship heading from Cartagena to Veracruz. After getting the car out of Colombia.
Competition open to all students around the ocean. Take one photo of your favourite coastal scene or landscape and write 50 words about why it is so special. Judging process now underway.
Since we left the UK in September 2009 we have been writing a regular blog for The Ecologist about the effects of climate change on communities around the Atlantic. You can read it on our Hot Topics pages. Why not use these stories as case studies in your school?
Tim gets a grilling
As part of BBC School Report,Tim got woken at 6am by students from Cardinal Newman School in Brighton, who quizzed him about the project and then went on to grill St.Augustines College, Ghana about climate change in West Africa. Read Tim's hazy recollections here.
"Soy un niño de 10 años me llamo la atencion su carro el cual observe en la autopista. Me resulta muy interesante lo que estan haciendo en los continentes y el oceano atlantico."
Marcelo Soto (who spotted us on the road in Venezuela)