Sally Lau opened the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) conference in Pucón, Chile this year with a Plenary Lecture! Sally’s Lecture was the prestigious Weybrecht Lecture and was titled “Learning from the persistence of Southern Ocean benthic invertebrates”. Sally outlined her interdisciplinary work, published in Science, to show how genomics can be used to address past West Antarctic Ice Sheet Collapse.

Jan was delighted to receive the SCAR medal for Education and Communication for initiating and coordinating the Women in Antarctic Research Wikibomb. The wikibomb contributed over 100 new detailed biographies of Antarctic women researchers to Wikipedia and sought to raise their profile and celebrate their achievement.