Professor Liz Morris
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Well, I was in a state of euphoria, as you can well imagine.
I was absolutely thrilled.
And the moment of first setting foot on what could be called the Antarctic, although Sydney is quite far north, was going to be a big moment for me.
And I thought, well, OK, here we go.
And got my friends set up to take a picture.
And I was going to pose and, you know, maybe try and look a bit heroic.
Look intrepid, yeah.
Look intrepid, yeah.
Why not?
And I was standing there and up marched a smaller daily penguin and pecked me smartly in the knee.
at which, of course, I fell over backwards and was lying there in the snow like an upturned beetle with my friends all trying not to laugh.
Well, I arrived just after the great paper on the ozone hole had been published, which was 1985.
But before everything started to come right, because the Montreal Protocol, which was basically the international agreement that we had to do something about the ozone hole, and that came in 87, I think, 88.
The other thing that was going on, of course, and the reason why Ice and Climate was formed is
was the fact that we began to realise that Antarctica was going to be very important in the story of climate change.
So meteorologists and glaciologists had to get together.
Well, I think we realised that we would have to do a bit more media work than shy scientists really want to do.
So that became part of a duty.
And then I had to do a quick reorganisation of my talks to schools, which had been sort of very soon we'll have a new Ice Age.
I had to alter that because the evidence was coming in
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