Why do museums engage you?
Tell us by participating in the 2025 Annual Survey of Museum Goers, sponsored by theÌý.
Adrian Howkins
Environmental Historian
University of Bristol
- Trips to Antarctica: 4
- Studying: Human impact on Antarctica
- Discovered: One of the lakes being studied formed only in the last 100 years.
- Amazed that: Everyone on this research project will set their feet on land where they’re the first person to ever walk.
- Said: "In Antarctica, you can’t avoid the environment. You can’t avoid this idea that the environment is part of human history.â€
- Fun fact: Accidentally bumped his small rubber boat into a sleeping whale.