Helen Scales & Helen Czerski | The Future of the Ocean
Sat 23 Nov 2024 | 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Earth is home to a huge story that is rarely told – that of our ocean. Marine biologist Helen Scales and physicist Helen Czerski dive into discussion on the ocean: what it does, why it works, and the many ways it has influenced ecosystems and animals.
Physicist Helen Czerski illuminates how all of the ocean, from the equator to the poles, is a single engine powered by sunlight – a blue machine – and recalibrates our view of this defining feature of our planet.
After more than twenty years of exploring the seas, marine biologist Helen Scales found herself struggling to answer the question are you hopeful for the future of the ocean? With growing public interest in the natural world combined with the rising tide of eco-anxiety, Scales is not alone in wrestling with feelings of anger and loss but also joy and wonder in the living ocean.
In an age of climate emergency, join these two thinkers in considering how we might build a more just, thriving future for the ocean.
In conversation with Megan Kenyon, Policy Correspondent (Sustainability), New Statesman
Venue: Old Divinity School
Duration: 1 hour
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Author Biography
Helen Czerski was born in Manchester. She is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at University College London. As a physicist, she studies the bubbles generated by breaking waves in the ocean to understand their influence on weather and climate. Helen has been a regular presenter of BBC TV science documentaries since 2011. She also hosts the Ocean Matters podcast, is part of the Cosmic Shambles network, and is one of the presenters for the Fully Charged Show. She has been a science columnist for the Wall Street Journal since 2017 and she is the author of the bestselling Storm in a Teacup: The Physics of Everyday Life, Bubbles: A Ladybird Expert Book, and Blue Machine: how the ocean works.
Dr Helen Scales is a marine biologist, acclaimed author and broadcaster who explores the wonders and plight of the oceans and the living planet. Her books, including The Brilliant Abyss and Spirals in Time, have been adapted for stage and screen, and translated into 15 languages. She writes for National Geographic Magazine and the Guardian, teaches at Cambridge University and is a storytelling ambassador for the Save Our Seas Foundation. Helen divides her time between Cambridge, England, and the wild Atlantic coast of France.
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