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Dr Helen Scales is a marine biologist, author and broadcaster. Across the airways and in print, she explores the beauty, curiosity and importance of the ocean's living wonders. She has a PhD from the Department of Zoology at Cambridge University and has worked for several conservation organisations, including WWF, English Nature and the International Union for the Conservation of Nature. Her studies of the ocean have taken her from the mangroves of Madagascar and remote coral reefs of Borneo, to West African oyster forests and the deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico.

Helen is also a renowned science communicator and popular science writer. Her popular science books include the Guardian bestseller, Spirals in Time, and her recent exploration of the deep ocean, The Brilliant Abyss. Her illustrated children’s books include What a Shell Can Tell, The Great Barrier Reef and an upcoming series Scientists in the Wild. Helen is a regular writer for National GeographicMagazine, The Guardian and New Scientist among others. She collaborates with a variety of artists, photographers, computer games designers and musicians to help spread the word about science and the ocean.

A familiar voice on BBC radio, she appears regularly on the BBC World Service Weekend, as well as the BBC Radio 4 programmes The World At One, The Infinite Monkey Cage and Nature Table. She has produced and presented several BBC radio documentaries including exploring the dream of living underwater (The Life Subaquatic) and searching for the perfect wave (Making Waves). She has co-presented the podcasts Catch Our Drift, a series for people who love the ocean, and Earth Unscrewed, which explores novel ways of saving the planet.

Helen teaches marine science and science writing at Cambridge University. She is advisor to the UK ocean conservation charity Sea Changers and a storytelling ambassador for the Save Our Seas Foundation. Helen divides her time between Cambridge, England and the Atlantic coast of France…read more on NOPR