This week I’m with the atmospheric research team at NIWA Wellington centred at Evan’s Bay along the Wellington Harbour side, providing the ultimate indoor-outdoor laboratory flow. This is the hub of the creation of the atmospheric technology that is deployed to...
I’ve spent the first week of my ambassadorship 35 kms from Alexandra in the small Central Otago settlement of Lauder, home to NIWA’s atmospheric research station. The station is purposefully situated in the middle of nowhere as its remoteness provides clear skies and...
Exhausted with desperation, in the dimming light of the Antarctic Autumn, the heroic men of the Terra Nova expedition left back at Cape Evans knew with certainty that the South Pole expedition had failed. It would be another 6 months until the first light of day gave...
At the end of summer when the Adelie penguin chicks are old enough to start going exploring on their own, the parents are free! They swim over Pony Lake which is just beside the hut, and based on the number of feathers and bile in the ice layer, appear to take refuge...
After an exhilarating tour of the ice fields of Mt Erebus by Heff the helo pilot, we flew over the lava flows to Cape Royds, our new home for the next three nights. Cape Royds is home to the Shackleton hut from the Nimrod expedition in 1910. It is located north west...
