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...

I was super excited to be asked to speak to Sky News about climate change and what projects I have been involved with at SAMS and BAS to try and work out what is actually changing with our climate and how it is going to affect our marine world and how we use it sustainably. Here are some of the things I spoke about, you can see it live in the New Year. Why do I/we study the oceans? The facts?! Oceans cover 71% of the planet and make up 95% of space available to life and these oceans are our support system and the lungs of our planet. The oceans produce all of the oxygen we breathe, from animals like phytoplankton through photosynthesis.  The ocean provides us with a place to exercise, socialise, and provides free goods and services, the food we eat, and the oxygen we breathe. Not only that, but the oceans also regulate the global climate, mediate temperatures, and drive the weather systems that we plan our short weekends by. Our climate can determine when we get massive rainfall, d...