Question: How long do you spend at one time in Antartica? What does your reseach help produce/improve?

Tamsin Gray answered on 15 Mar 2010:

The first time I came to Antarctica it was for a year and a half. Right now I have been here for 5 months and I’m about to go home and spend the summer in England. People come for anything from a week to 2 and a half years.

My research helps us make predictions about how the climate is going to change and how sea level will rise all over the world.
It also improves our understanding of the impact man is having on the planet. My boss discovered the hole in the ozone layer and I help monitor it to see whether it’s getting better. That’s a really good example of science in Antarctica producind a discovery that meant we could do something about the damage we were doing. Climate change is an even bigger problem and the knowledge I am helping produce right now is showing just how big an effort will be needed to get climate change under control.

My work also helps produce the weather forecasts you see on the TV at home as they use information from all over the world to predict what will happen tomorrow in Britain.