21 Days on the Southern Ocean

In what could possibly be the longest conference, 21 days at sea on the Southern Ocean, Samantha does her best to make you feel at home here. In a “being-there” moment, you will be brought into the room to consider terms like your “Personal Strategy Map,” your “LSI” type and discover how to cope with all this intensity--through “Peer Coaching.”

Cold Open with Greg Mortimer: Good morning Possums.

[1:30] Opening VO : I’ve described this before as the world’s longest, most intense conference.  

With whales frolicking, penguins moulting, icebergs floating by, and glaciers melting off in the distance.

And yes, that’s a totally privileged sentence to form. 

I want to put that right up front. 

This experience doesn’t come cheap, and it doesn’t come easy.

[3:19] Sam VO: And If I’m going to do a good job of sharing how this experience changed me. Why this was an emotional odyssey to the end of the world... 

Then I’m going to need to put you in the room with me. 

[3:56] Sam VO: In the last episode, I explained how I want to tell this story using what I’m calling Audio Verite … which is another way of saying that I want to let the tape roll when I can. Rather than continually breaking the moment to explain what’s going on

[5:30] Virtual tour of the ship

[7:10] Lecture by Dr Justine Shaw: Antarctica 101.

[9:12]  Lecture by Professor May-Anne Lea. It’s a primer on the Antarctic Ocean Systems.

[12:05] Sam VO: Everyone is examining how to be a strong leader, how to be better to each other, how to be better to the planet in the midst of a collapsing ecosystem.

[13:20] Fabian Dattner Introduction to LSI

[15:19] Kit Jackson and the Personal Strategy Map

[17:01]  Sarah Anderson and Visibility

[17:58] Justine - it’s not so easy to find role models for women in STEM

[18:53] Kerryn Miller - Introduction to Peer Coaching

[21:05]  Sam: VO - But what brought it all together, what balanced out these very long days, was when we could go ashore and walk around. 

First, we had to vacuum - 

[21:23] Sam VO: Conservation of Antarctica is taken very seriously - and any of these tiny seeds could become the zebra muscles of Antarctica.

For this episode, I’d like to thank :

Greg Mortimer

Dr. Beth Christie, 

Dr. Justine Shaw

Professor Mary-Ann Lea

Fabian Dattner 

Kit Jackson 

Sarah Anderson 

Dr. Sylvia Struck

Kerryn Miller