Ephemerality and Performance: Sastrugi Sounds of Antarctic Sea Ice Open Access

Sean Minhui Tashi Chua is a multidisciplinary scientist and artist working across earth observation and data science with a focus on polar regions, sound and immersive storytelling. He is a researcher at the Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center in Bergen, Norway.

Diana Chester is a sound studies scholar and artist whose work produces critically influential studies, methods, and outputs that use sound to traverse disciplinary boundaries. Their work draws from sound studies and ethnography and relies on field recording and composition to explore sound in diverse contexts by putting research and practice in direct conversation—deepening the capacities of both. They are a Senior Lecturer in Media and Communications at the University of Sydney, Australia.