Jan Strugnell and Sally Lau were part of the Octopus and Ice Sheet team who won the Aspire Scholarship Eureka Prize for Excellence in Interdisciplinary Scientific Research! Together with their colleagues Dr Nerida Wilson (Western Australian Museum and CSIRO), and Professor Nick Golledge and Professor Tim Naish (Victoria University of Wellington) they were honoured for their research, published in Science, using octopus DNA to discover that the West Antarctic Ice Sheet likely collapsed during the Last Interglacial. The findings are the strongest evidence to date that sustained global warming above 1.5C will result in unstoppable collapse of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet. Their research was funded by the Australian Research Council.