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now we are beginning to realise, just as telescopes are getting more and more powerful and people are looking into outer space and getting interested in that, which i regard as a complete waste of time, so microscopes are getting more powerful and we re beginning to realise just how incredibly diverse and infinite the life on this planet is and how little we understand it. that s where the future of exploration lies. let s talk about your personal exploration journey, because it always intrigues me what motivates people to undertake missions which do involve a great deal of hardship and deprivation. you didn t come from a family that was poor. you were educated at one of the poshest schools in england. so you obviously made a deliberate choice to put yourself in very difficult situations, travelling to the far corners of the globe. why? well, i grew up in a wild and wonderful part of ireland where i had a sort of swallows and amazons upbringing, living alone
and hangs together. and if that involves some hacking and hewing through trackless wastes, so much the better. well. that s part of it. at heart, it s about going into the unknown, isn t it? so do we need to change what we think of as the unknown? because in the past, it was about geographical territory. maybe we should think differently. yes, absolutely. now we are beginning to realise, just as telescopes are getting more and more powerful and people are looking into outer space and getting interested in that, which i regard as a complete waste of time, so microscopes are getting more powerful and we re beginning to realise just how incredibly diverse and infinite the life on this planet is and how little we understand it. that s where the future of exploration lies. let s talk about your personal exploration journey, because it always intrigues me what motivates people
this professor has a five year research grant from the us national science foundation to study snow algae and how it affects the rate that snow melts, but she can t spent five years straight in antarctica so joining a trip like this works well for her. i am able to collect some samples and data for my research and i can use of the facilities on the ship, such as the microscopes, to look at the samples and also work with the tourists to show them what i am sampling in the snow. most of the ship s expedition crew also have science backgrounds and help run citizen science projects for the passengers. ..a little bubble of water on top and no air. studying the microscopic phytoplankton in the water helps monitor the effects of global warning. samples are packed up and sent off to be analysed by researchers who can t get here themselves. coming to places like antarctica