Hello. Welcome to Jimmy's Jobs of the Future. Thank you so much for having me.

So your website describes you as a climate scientist, presenter and boxer, which has probably

got to be one of the most unique combinations we've ever had on the show. Can you unpack

that a little bit for us? Yeah, I mean, I guess the climate scientist part maybe is a

little bit more self-explanatory. So I work for the British Antarctic Survey and I'm trying

to figure out how the polar regions and the Antarctic and the Arctic are likely to change

in future as we are warming our planet. But I'm also very, very keen on communicating climate

science more widely because I think it's, you know, the most pressing issue of our time

and I think everyone has a right to understand it in a way climate science is not always the

most understandable and accessible topic. So I've tried to do my very best to make it a little

bit more accessible. So that's the presenter bit. And then the boxer part is a very, very

intense hobby I've been doing for 10 years and do a bit of coaching. Yeah, it keeps me sane.

Well, we'll be coming back to all of those, but I was quite intrigued to learn about your

journey into climate science because it is one of the greatest challenges of our time and lots

of young people want to go into it and tackle it for their generation. But I was struck that you

didn't actually have a scientific background at A levels, particularly. You actually studied

humanities. So can you talk us through the sort of the switch that you kind of made?

Yeah, I guess I always thought of myself as being more of a kind of geography or social scientist.

And I was really interested in environmental politics and all of the kind of more human side

and of climate change and how we we fix that. But I went to university and did an environmental

science and international development joint degree. And while I was there in my second year,

I had to choose a module and I had no choices that I really wanted to do left, but I had to pick a

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