• Question: your my favourite scientist and what i wanted to ask you was, Do you enjoy working in antarctica? It must be really cold?

    Asked by cormacwillis_5 to Tamsin on 24 Mar 2010 in Categories: .
    • Photo: Tamsin Gray

      Tamsin Gray answered on 24 Mar 2010:


      Hi,
      I love working in Antarctica – a lot of the time work doesn’t really feel like work here, more like playing in the snow.
      It can be really cold but I just wear loads of clothes like you can see in the photos and then it doesn’t matter. When it’s really cold, like minus 40 or 50, I have to cover up all my skin otherwise it would turn white and start to freeze and die. At the end of a year here I was a bit bored of spending 5 minutes getting dressed every time I went outside but mostly I like the cold because it brings snow and I can go snowboarding!

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