In Search of the Lost Ducks, cartography 1

In September 2008, the NASA dropped 90 yellow rubber ducks in a glacier in Greenland in order to estimate the rate of climate warming. Awaited for a few weeks later in the Bay of Disko, the ducks never reappeared. Where did the ducks go? Were they trapped by a glacier? Did they already get out?
What if a duck was found thousands of kilometres away to the South? Off the coast of Newfoundland? On the Quebec shores? In front of the Statue of Liberty? In the Gulf of Mexico?
Or more to the North? Trapped by an ice field? Off the coast of Thule? On the Russian shores of the arctic icy ocean?
Could these ducks hold the key to the world’s upheavals?

The purpose of this conference is to describe NASA’s experiment and to explain why we must urgently find these ducks. The speaker presents the first results of his investigation, ventures some hypothesises about the palmipeds’ localisation, tells the odyssey of the surviving ducks in 1992, analyses the consequences of this disappearance in terms of climate change. He uses satellite imagery and scientific documents to reinforce his statement and to put his hypothesises into perspective.
This artistic proposal is the result of a process of meetings and discussions with scientists and experts of the Arctic world.