Life Beyond the Beaker

  Here Rachel is explaining the type of Airboat that she uses as a wetlands ecologist in the US! I recently had a great chat with Rachel Villani from  Louisiana! We had made contact through Twitter as I had seen back in September that she was doing podcasts on Antarctica and wanted to speak to people that have worked in the field. One of my major goals whilst being within the science world is to communicate what I do and hopefully inspire others. I also think that within the scary online world that there are some fantastic tools out there, one of them being Twitter if you use it in the right way. I use Twitter to keep up to date with the latest science, policies, ideas, and also network. Zoom is also a great tool to have a virtual meeting and Rachel uses it to record her podcasts.  Storytellers of STEMM is the podcast Rachel hosts, " since January 2020. Everyone has a story, and these are the stories of the people in STEMM - their successes, career paths, research, field...

So for the last 7 weeks I've been representing the Scottish Association for Marine Science. I have been working at Rothera as a Marine Assistant/consultant. I am now home in Scotland and heading to an Arctic Conference for the next stage of my work where we are preparing to board the RRS James Clark Ross again in September! Here are a few things I got up to on base and off base before I left.  The new bedrooms in Admirals (the accomidation building) are super comfy and give you more privacy!  Muff excited for his new DJ set up, there are going to be god parties this winter coming!  The only bad thing about the construction is that it is super noisy for most of the time, there are lots of big machinery. This is still my favourite place to sit and watch the world go by.  Second place is inside the Noddy where it is warm!  Lots of snow clearing! This was to make space for the Transport Aquarium! I definitely have a bit of PTSD from the Transpo...

We have worn alot of High vis in the past few weeks. Now that the big ship has arrived and that we are basically a building site whilst they complete the new wharf build Amber in the middle wintered in 2014 but we met at NOC in Southampton last year...and Dee and I feel like we know each other from somewhere but can't work it out?! Mooring up the Shack for one evening! Such a beautiful evening to sit by the wharf and watch crabbies swim by. Some cool shots by Ieuan from different stages of the job. From holding the boat that's on the crane 'Banking' meaning passing on instructions to the crane operator I hate this ladder. But getting distracted like Dory...probably a seal! Hopefully always smiling Diver Gives the Ok on entering the water safely Just a few delightful photos from Christmas! Lovely gals On a sunny Sunday we helped move 20 tons of explosives which are being used to prepare the Wharf Extension! The ...