Czech scientists set off on 20th Antarctic expedition

A team of scientists from Masaryk University in Brno set off on an expedition to Antarctica on Wednesday morning. The group of 16 people is heading to the Johann Gregor Mendel station on James Ross Island, where they will spend two months engaging in research, testing new instruments and equipment, as well as shooting a documentary about Czech research in the Antarctic. Czech scientists have been monitoring signs of climate change in the outer edges of Antarctica for the past 20 years, the head of the Czech Antarctic Research Program, Daniel Nývlt, said before their departure.