Life Beneath the surface
See article on the Rapanuia website and buy yourself some sustainably made clothes.
Wildscreen 2024
Wildscreen 2024 was a whirlwind. Leaving me with a big need to sleep and get rid of the delightful cold I caught there from a solid week of chatting to friends and colleagues I dont often get to see unless we are away on a shoot together. Some lovely new faces are now familiar for the underwater family tree.
The industry is certainly in a quiet period, but enough people are being proactive and diversifying in order to keep afloat.
The beautiful Billy and Molly ( an otter love story) finally got its UK screening and plenty of other fascinating talks went on throughout the festival.
I was asked to talk on the Extremes panel with a stellar line up of Erin Ranney, Alex Walters and Luke Nelson. Nerve wracking, but fun. I learnt alot and shared fun aecdotes from the field with my panel mates. We hope the audience enjoyed it.
A big thanks to RED for a great in person REDucation class. I have done a remote one before, but it was great to meet everyone in person and poke around some of the new cameras I havent had my hands on before.
Hopefully the industry is in a better state by the time 2026 rolls around. It was lovely to see everyone.
100 Polar Women
Women in Polar Science (WiPS) network started in 2014 with the aim of connecting and supporting women working in Antarctic and Arctic research. WiPS social media is able to share womens’ own experiences, both successes and struggles, while highlighting their contributions to global science. We are also able to highlight and share information about opportunities, academic and nonacademic, across the whole network to enable better gender parity in applications.
Women in Polar Science (WiPS) network started in 2014 with the aim of connecting and supporting women working in Antarctic and Arctic research. WiPS has grown from a small grassroots network, to bring together nearly 10,000 individuals across several social media platforms from all continents of the world, and at all career and management levels. WiPS social media is able to share womens’ own experiences, both successes and struggles, while highlighting their contributions to global science. We are also able to highlight and share information about opportunities, academic and nonacademic, across the whole network to enable better gender parity in applications. WiPS have organised several major events since 2014, including networking events, a Women in Antarctic science Wikibomb to increase wikipedia profiles of female Antarctic scientists, panel discussions on life experiences of women in polar research and leadership in 2018, and a discussion about inclusive collaborations in polar research in 2020. To date, there are more profiles of women Antarctic researchers than men on Wikipedia!
WiPS aims to continue to work towards a more equitable polar sciences in the years to come, with an aspiration for a bright and inclusive future, supporting a diverse global community of researchers, and helping them thrive and achieve to the best of their potential.