Dr Helen Czerski giving a talk entitled ""An Ocean of Salt", on the Future Stage, at New Scientist Live 2022
Earth's ocean is an engine that acts as the beating heart of the Earth system. To understand how our ocean shapes life, climate and human civilization, it's necessary to understand the role of salt: the ocean's most mundane and essential feature. In this talk Helen Czerski explored the great stories of our ocean told through salt: where vast supply of ocean salt came from, why it makes sea turtles cry, how it shaped polar exploration, how it helps turn the ocean engine, why it matters for the planet and why an eel's metamorphosis is one of the greatest tricks in nature. Helen is a physicist, oceanographer, broadcaster and writer. Her academic research at University College London focusses on the bubbles formed by breaking waves in the open ocean and their effect on the ocean and the climate. She has been a regular science presenter for the BBC for ten years, writes a column for the Wall Street Journal on the physics of everyday life, covers the science of green energy and transport for the Fully Charged channel, and was awarded the Institute of Physics Gold Medal in 2018 for her work on physics communication.
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