 My name's Jason Roberts, I'm a senior research scientist with the Australian Antarctic Division and also a contributed staff member to the Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems Croppy Research Center. I was always much more interested in the science side of things and saw that, you know, one of the biggest science challenges for the world actually was what's happening in Antarctica, so I was lucky enough to be based here. I mean, this is the largest concentration of Antarctic and Southern Ocean scientists in the world. Things like how the climate's changing, what are the impacts going to be for things like changing sea levels, changing storm frequencies. So some of the work we're currently doing is extracting information from an ice core in Lord Dome, so that's near Casey Station, Antarctica, pretty much due south of Perth. First time I went to Antarctica is 10 years ago. Science took me there. It is one of the few places on Earth where everyone from all nations are genuinely collaborative. The Antarctic Treaty, actually science is the currency of the treaty. It is how nations demonstrate that they're serious about Antarctica, that they're doing work, they're trying to understand Antarctica and go forward. I mean, Antarctica is a vast place and as you can imagine, it's really difficult to do science, so it tends to be more and more so science tends to be collaborative. Where do you see it leading us? To make informed decisions. So I think one of the big things that can make a big difference to Australia is the work I was talking about earlier about the frequency of droughts in eastern Australia. So some decisions about water security, water infrastructure, doing sensible planning and mitigation for potential risks associated with that. I think that can make a big difference. The other project that I'm involved with, the ice cap project, where we're actually surveying the ice sheet, we're actually using an old, really lovely old aircraft. It looks like something out of an Indiana Jones movie. It's a modified DC3. It was actually built in 1942. It is a glorious thing. So our main collaborator with that is actually the USA through the University of Texas at Austin. They supply a lot of the scientific equipment and technical expertise. Once penguins get on the land, they tend to be fairly inquisitive and fairly fearless. So even a little of Delhi penguin, I've even heard stories of them attacking the Aurora Strails, the ship behind us.