Part of what is so exciting about this project is my opportunity to be exposed to such a wide range of intriguing information. Although when you start to research subjects associated with Climate Change you undoubtedly come across tragic stories, they are fascinating all the same. One of the more lighter and cooler things I have learned about while researching this show is the geographical meaning of an ‘Atoll’. An ‘Atoll’ is a island which it’s highest point of land is the perimeter, the middle is below sea level and in many cases the only inhabitable part of land is the beach.

This is the case of the Marshall Island’s Arno Atoll. Arno is the principle site for Thomas Goreau and team’s pilot BIOROCK project which is designed to provide desperately needed shore protection to the island from rising ocean, fueled by global warming. On top of the atoll being located only 7 degrees off the equator,  in the middle of the Pacific Ocean and is definitely will be the most remote place I have ever visited to date, I find it virtually unfathomable that the highest point of land is only 3meters above sea level! Being that I have lived in the mountains of Western Canada my whole life I am sure to experience some form of geographical shock. If nothing else you can expect future posts when we land discussing the drastic transition of scenery for me…I am so looking forward to it.