As we have around 7 days steaming just to get to the Ross Sea I started up regular talks for the team. Hugh Carter from the UK Natural History Museum gave a great talk on starfish with some lovely drawings he whipped up on an iPad. #Taxonomy is taxonomy! and Hugh presented it well. 馃槂 A whole bunch of disciplines on board and we lapped it up (even the physicists)! The talk is being given in the small library on the ship (photo Alina Madita Wieczorek). #ocean #science #TAN2502
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...and imagine my surprise when he mentioned the few people that had worked on starfish in the Ross Sea starting with the amazing James Clark Ross expedition and he listed Helen Shearburn Clarke. Helen was still going strong when I moved to NZ. I started her wikipedia page awhile back as a lock down project I think - amazing story and keeping the flame burning for idiosyncratic taxonomists! Best remembered for randomly turning up to work with a donkey.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Elizabeth_Shearburn_Clark
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