It's nearly Christmas, even in Antarctica! Jenn Danis is "camp mum" to researchers and engineers currently working at Kamb Ice Stream, more than a thousand kilometres from Scott Base.
They're there to drill for sediment cores beneath the Ross Ice Shelf to help determine how sensitive it has been to past warming.
Davis spoke to Charlotte Cook.
Traces of DNA left behind in seafloor sediment by past marine communities at KIS3 could reveal important information about the environmental conditions at the time they were alive.
Feeling a bit chilly as winter approaches? Try minus 12 in summer. Central District SOCO Sean Heaphy tells Ten One about his Antarctic adventures.