Cape Adare is at the Northern extent of the Ross Sea (750 km from Scott Base) and is home to Antarctica's largest Adelie Penguin colony – more than 500,000 of them! The location, 750km away from Scott Base, is very strategic from a science perspective. If continued warming of the planet is going to affect Antarctica's ice sheets (melt them), it will most likely be from warm ocean water spilling over the continent edge and into the interior of Antarctica beneath its floating ice shelves. We hope to identify species at Cape Adare that can tell us if this is already happening. Cape Adare is also within the proposed Ross Sea Marine Protected Area and we hope to identify what species might help us monitor the effectiveness of future marine protection.