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Imagine a frozen white world at the far reaches of the globe,
temperatures plummeting down to a bone-numbing minus 57 degrees Celsius.
All around you, nothing but snow, ice, silence and the occasional snowmobile.
That's the happy place of today's guest,
a glaciologist who was among the first British women scientists to work on the planet's coldest continent,
Antarctica.
Liz Morris is an Emeritus Associate at the University of Cambridge's Scott Polar Research Institute,
where her work focuses on polar ice sheets and how they're affected by climate change.
Liz has crossed the Greenland ice sheet, she's had a glacier named after her in Antarctica,
and she was once attacked by a penguin in South Orkney.
Argumentative flightless birds aside,
Liz's fascination with the physics of ice and her determination to break into a male-dominated world have made her a trailblazer in glaciology.
But she's also a living embodiment of the phrase love what you do,
saying my body, heart and soul simply feel happy in cold regions.
I'm not sure how cheerful I could be at minus 57 degrees, but, you know, each to their own.
Professor Liz Morris, welcome to The Life Scientific.
Thank you very much.
I'm delighted to be here.
I'm going to have to ask about that penguin attack.