Sound Of Sirens

The Dome at Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station is seen above a field of sastrugi - ridges of snow formed by wind erosion on October 29, 2003. (Bill McAfee/National Science Foundation)

The aurora australis over the Dark Sector at Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station on June 3, 2008. The Dark Sector is so-named due to the absence of light and radio wave interfence. The bright spot above the ground shield in the foreground is Jupiter. The white streaks of light going up are the Milky Way. (Keith Vanderlinde/National Science Foundation)

After waiting for over two weeks for his mate to return from the sea and relieve him of nest duty, this Adelie penguin’s hunger helps him make the decision to abandon his egg in search of fish and krill in the sea. Photo taken December 12, 2002. Known populations of the Adelie penguin have dropped by 65% over the past 25 years. (Melanie Conner/National Science Foundation)

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Taken from here (where you’ll find the whole series with lots of more stunning pictures!) How small and unimportant we all are. Wow!

‘The elements of nature and the lizards are connected in many different ways, and we are part of nature’s element mix. Thinking we are the center of everything we will be left alone.’

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by Jenifer Galvin - scientist, filmmaker, writer and educator. She uses her background in public health and environmental science to inform her work as a filmmaker.

Jennifer Galvin is a founder of reelblue, LLC (www.reelblue.net) and also a Trustee and Selection Committee Member of the Henry David Thoreau Foundation (www.thoreauscholar.org).