Talk us through a typical Antarctic mission, sort of from the planning stages to start to finish, both ways and back on the ground.

Sure.

For a normal mission, we would start often middle of the year for operations over summer.

So I would go through all the lessons learned from the previous summer, revise all our risk management, our risk mitigation plans, revise operations manuals, conduct recurrent training on issues specific to Antarctic aviation, navigation, environment, weather, et cetera, and then work with whichever department we're working for.

So it might be the Australian Antarctic Division or the Italian or the French program or the United States program, whoever we're working for.

and get an understanding of their requirements, their payloads, double check that the equipment on the ground will be functional.

I mean, there is limited, very limited support on the ground, but we need to know because it is so limited what's there and it's going to be working.

What more would you all like to see in terms of government and policy support for Antarctic operations and Antarctic science?