A birthday treat turned into a useful opportunity to extend my practice and find new sources of inspiration. In May 2025 I set sail on a cruise entitled British Isles and European Delights. An unusual itinerary leaving and returning to Liverpool sailing anticlockwise around Great Britain calling at St Peter Port in Guernsey, Honfleur in France, Ijmuiden for Amsterdam, then …
As part of my ongoing work around the Discovery Expedition of 1924-27 I have been thinking a lot about krill. The Expedition was investigation the sustainability of the South Atlantic whale fishery (spoiler: it wasn’t sustainable) by looking at the whole ecology of the whale food chain/environment. It was groundbreaking research for lots of reasons, but the importance of the …
The main aim of the Discovery Oceanographic Expedition (1924-27) was to investigate the sustainability of the South Atlantic Whale Fishery. As part of this there needed to be an understanding of the marine ecosystem that sustained the whales. It was known that krill (mostly Antarctic Krill Euphausia superba) were the main food source for these whales but it was not …