Скачать или смотреть BCS Talk June 2025 - Two Years in a Tin Can - A Life in Antarctica

Peter Gibbs will speak on the challenge of cartography in a constantly changing but largely featureless landscape.

The challenge of cartography in a constantly changing but largely featureless landscape. Also mentioning the Antarctic Place Names Committee as Antarctica is one of the few places on Earth where new place-names are still being added.

Bio: Peter counts himself as lucky to have grown up in the beautiful surroundings of the Lake District, where he first developed a love for the outdoors and an interest in weather – there’s a lot of weather in The Lakes! Following a degree in physics and geography at Newcastle University he joined the British Antarctic Survey as a meteorologist, living and working in Antarctica for two years at the isolated Halley research station. Peter went on to a more than 30 year career as a front line forecaster with the UK’s Met Office, 20 years of that with the national weather broadcasting team at the BBC.

He regularly chairs the iconic Radio 4 show ‘Gardeners’ Question Time’, reputed to be the longest-running radio show in the world! He’s also devised and presented features and documentaries for the BBC including the technology show ‘Click’, the Radio 4 environment series ‘Costing the Earth’, and returned to Antarctica in 2016 to report on the global importance of the science programme at Halley for the BBC’s flagship science show ‘Horizon’.

Peter is passionate about tackling the biodiversity and climate crises, spending much of his spare time doing outreach work to improve public understanding of climate change, while also working with local nature conservation groups around his Berkshire home. As an enthusiastic gardener he’s making sure his own patch is as wildlife-friendly as possible! Peter is a Fellow of the Royal Meteorological Society and the Royal Geographical Society.

Contents
0:00 Introduction
1:45 Talk
41:41 Q&A