Earth has a story that is rarely told. Not the fish or the dolphins, but the ocean itself: a single vast engine, powered by sunlight, that shapes our climate, our weather, and the whole of human history. Welcome to a lecture with Helen Czerski.
In her book Blue Machine, Helen Czerski dives deep into this hidden system, tracing the powerful currents, invisible ocean walls and underwater waterfalls that drive life on our planet. From the ancient Polynesians who navigated the Pacific by reading the waves, to the Greenland shark living silently in the deep for hundreds of years, she reveals the thrilling extent to which all life, including our own, exists at the mercy of this great engine. In this talk, Helen will tell the stories that give us a fresh perspective on what it means to live on an ocean planet.
About Helen Czerski
Helen Czerski is a physicist and oceanographer and has both a BSc and PhD from the University of Cambridge.
Helen has a gift of distilling complicated scientific information into interesting and engaging programmes and her TV work includes From Ice to Fire: The incredible Science of Temperature, Sound Waves: The Symphony of Physics, Colour: The Spectrum of Science along with Orbit: Earth’s Extraordinary Journey, Operation Iceberg, Ocean Autopsy as well as various Horizons.
Helen has written 2 books, hosts BBC Radio 4's Rare Earth podcast and speaks at events all over the UK and around the world.
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