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Artists & Writers
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Mr. Guy Guthridge
Program Manager
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W-223-M
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Artist/Writer Program
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Station:
McMurdo Station
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RPSC POC:
Elaine Hood
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Research Site(s):
McMurdo Station, South Pole Station
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Dates in Antarctica:
November to mid January
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Antarctica: The biography of a continent
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Gabrielle Walker.
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Deploying Team Members:
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Gabrielle Walker
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Research Objectives:
Gabrielle Walker will write a popular science book, titled Antarctica:
A
Biography of a Continent. The book will be narrative non-fiction, written for an intelligent non-scientist audience, and will weave together descriptions of science, places and people working in Antarctica. The idea is to get at the "personality" of the continent through the eyes of researchers, through vivid descriptions of the different environments that they are working in, and through what Antarctic science reveals about the continent and its place in the world.
Dr. Walker is a freelance science writer specializing in earth and environmental
sciences. She has a Ph.D. in natural science from Cambridge University, and
is a former editor at Nature and features editor at New Scientist.
Dr Walker has taught in the science writing program at Princeton University.
She has also written for Natural History, Science, The
Economist and many newspapers, and presented features, series and magazine
programs for BBC radio. Her previous
book is Snowball Earth, published by Crown.
Dr. Walker will spend two and a half months in Antarctica, mainly working out of McMurdo, but also visiting the South Pole and a variety of field sites. As well as researching for her book, she will also be obtaining material for magazine articles and radio programs.
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