A new Otago Museum exhibition, which opens this weekend, highlights links between climate change in the Antarctic and potential effects in South Dunedin.
This exhibition, titled ''Far From Frozen: Antarctica & Us'', aims to stimulate greater interest in science and technology among young people and their families.
Otago Museum science engagement director Dr Craig Grant said the exhibition included a 3-D model of the Antarctic showing its geological structure and ice layers, and a 3-D model of Dunedin.
Animations, including coloured lights, depict various climate-change and associated sea-level-rise scenarios, and how they might affect parts of Dunedin.
''I hope people realise this is quite real,'' Dr Craig said.
Some possible sea-level-rise outcomes could be ''avoided and mitigated'', but this would ''require people to think differently'', on both local and policy levels, he said.
The exhibition runs from this Saturday until January 29.
Otago Museum had partnered with Antarctica New Zealand, the New Zealand Antarctic Research Institute and leading Antarctic researchers at the University of Otago and throughout the country to develop and deliver the exhibition.
Among the associated activities are several talks, recently filmed at or near Scott Base in the Antarctic, which are being broadcast via the internet this weekend or can be watched free at the museum on Sunday.
