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Women In Polar Science

Nicole Hellessey, PhD

Georgia Institute of Technology (USA)

Nicole, wearing a yellow Pikachu hat, a red parka and black snowpants, stands tall on a pebble beach in front of brown hills and snow-covered mountains in Brown Bluff, Antarctic Peninsula. Adelie penguins do their thing in the background.

Nicole, wearing a yellow Pikachu hat, a red parka and black snowpants, stands tall on a pebble beach in front of brown hills and snow-covered mountains in Brown Bluff, Antarctic Peninsula. Adelie penguins do their thing in the background.

What’s the work that you do?

I am a post doctoral researcher. I’m currently studying Antarctic krill swimming behaviour in relation to chemical, physical and photic stimuli to see what causes krill swarms to form and disperse in the environment. This work will be useful to predict if and how krill will swarm under different environmental situations. I’m also a committee member of Pride in Polar Research (@PridePolar), and I’m on the SCAR EDI Leadership Steering Committee.

What keeps you going?

I love communicating my science to a broad range of audiences from young children to the young at heart. Being able to show that science is accessible to everyone is what helps me stay motivated for when there’s long days of data analysis.

What’s your message to the world?

Where there’s a krill, there’s a way. A motto and a mantra!

Organisation: Georgia Institute of Technology (USA)

Nationality: Australia Australia

Disciplines:

Krill biologist

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We are grateful to The Ocean Foundation for acting as our fiscal sponsor in the US, the Curtis and Edith Munson Foundation for sponsoring this project, and the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) for supporting us.