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Women In Polar Science

Tracy Moffat-Griffin, PhD

British Antarctic Survey (UK)

Tracy, in a black BAS jacket and beanie, stands in front of Adelie penguins at Rothera research station March 2020, where she deployed a new airglow imager system (which observes atmospheric waves in the middle atmosphere).

Tracy, in a black BAS jacket and beanie, stands in front of Adelie penguins at Rothera research station March 2020, where she deployed a new airglow imager system (which observes atmospheric waves in the middle atmosphere).

What’s the work that you do?

I’m the Science Leader for the Atmosphere, Ice and Climate Team at BAS, we study climate variability and key physical and chemical processes that influence the highly coupled polar atmosphere-ice-ocean system. My personal area of research is the study of atmospheric gravity waves and tides as a dynamical coupling mechanism in the polar regions, to understand their variability and the role they play in driving atmospheric circulation. I am also interested in climate change and extreme weather events in the polar regions plus space weather effects on middle atmosphere circulation.

What keeps you going?

I have always loved science and problem solving, so, for me, my day-to-day research allows me to do what I love! As my career has progressed, I’ve had opportunities to work with a wide range of people on really exciting projects, develop (with our fantastic engineering team) instrumentation and help to deploy them in the Antarctic. I’m still eager to learn new things and expand my scientific knowledge.

What’s your message to the world?

Believe in yourself and don’t listen to people who say you can’t do something just because of your gender! If you believe you can, then go for it!

Organisation: British Antarctic Survey (UK)

Nationality: UK UK

Disciplines:

Atmospheric physics

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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.