About a month ago, Lars-the-guru forwarded me the following email: Dear Colleagues The 6th World Fisheries Congress will occur from 7th -11th May in Edinburgh. We need student volunteers to…
For the past two weeks, I’ve been a proper waste of space and resources. This hasn’t been all bad because moving to a new country comes with significant amounts of…
Before I dive in to talk about the physics that make certain regions in the Southern Ocean more awesome than others, I’m going to take this opportunity to elucidate why…
In “Where it’s at!” I confessed my undying devotion to Antarctic waters. And fair enough – the Southern Ocean flows right around the globe, is virtually impossible to monitor because of…
While I was still doing my undergraduate degree at Rhodes University, a girl I vaguely knew told the story about how a misguided ‘grown-up’ had put his change into her…
Let me tell you a little something about what missing the boat has meant to me over the past 12 months. The boat being a ship. Specifically the cursed Agulhas.…
Now that I’ve confessed I glue tags to the heads of female elephant seals, you must be wondering how I get away with it. Or why for that matter. I’ll…
If you were an adult female elephant seal, I imagine that your annual ‘To Do:’ list would look something like this: January – March: 1. Haul out onto Marion Island…
The weirdest thing about doing a PhD is that everyone who isn’t in the academic game assumes you’re smart. I’m going to let you in on a little secret: smart…
Because I don’t have the most prolific social life, I don’t have to handle new people very often. When I do, however, it almost always ends badly. It’s one thing…
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