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Iceworld

De: British Antarctic Survey
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  • Resumen

  • Welcome to Antarctica. What's it like living and working in one of the most extreme environments in the world? Recorded at Rothera Research Station on the Antarctic Peninsula, the team talk extreme living, climate science, expeditions and becoming a community. From polar scientists to plumbers, these are interviews with ordinary people who are doing extraordinary jobs with British Antarctic Survey. Hosted and recorded by Nadia Frontier, marine biologist. A podcast from British Antarctic Survey, produced in partnership with Boffin Media. ++ Joining us in 2024? Why not start with Series 3.
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  • S3 Ep11: Fixing Skidoos in Antarctica with Matthew McPherson

    S3 Ep11: Fixing Skidoos in Antarctica with Matthew McPherson
    Jul 10 2024
    Vehicle mechanic Matthew McPherson chats to Nadia Frontier about fixing skidoos, his love for building snow tunnels and skiing. It's no surprise that Matthew's draw to Antarctica started with his fascination of snow.

    This episode was recorded live in the Rothera garage, a location where plant is maintained and specialists parts are machined on a metal lathe.

    Cover photograph of plant operator Angus and Vehicle Mechanic Matthew McPherson snow clearing the runway by Sam Hunt. This episode is produced in partnership with Boffin Media.
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    17 m
  • S3: Happy Midwinter, from King Edward Point Research Station

    S3: Happy Midwinter, from King Edward Point Research Station
    Jun 21 2024
    Welcome to the longest night of the dark Antarctic winter - and the biggest celebration in the polar calendar. Coming to you (almost) live from King Edward Point (KEP) Research Station on the sub-Antarctic Island of South Georgia, Nadia Frontier chats to five members of the team as they prepare their hand-made gifts, limber up for the station olympics, and think about friends and family at home.

    Midwinter is celebrated every year on 21 June by all of the stations of different nations across the frozen South. This year, host Nadia is one of the nine intrepid winterers at KEP who will be marking their journey half way out of the dark.

    Featured in this episode are: Winter Station Leader Cameron Fox-Clarke, Marine Biologist Katie Wells, Mechanical Maintenance Technician Ash Shinn, Doctor Tom Hubbard, and Boating Officer Louis Day.
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    26 m
  • S3 Ep10: Engineers of Antarctica, with Jonathan Witherstone & Jaskiran Nagi

    S3 Ep10: Engineers of Antarctica, with Jonathan Witherstone & Jaskiran Nagi
    May 23 2024
    From living beside a growing ice chasm, to signing up to live in Antarctica through dark Antarctic Winter - Jaskiran Nagi and Jonathan Witherstone are electronics engineers with a shared love of knowing how things work and being outdoors.

    Jas chats about his work at Halley Research Station and maintaining the seismic instruments on the ice shelf there, and Jonathan reveals the surprisingly low-tech secrets behind maintaining comms in the snow at Rothera Research Station.

    Iceworld is presented by marine biologist Nadia Frontier, produced in partnership with Boffin Media; cover photo by Dani Stewart.
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    25 m
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