![]() ![]() She told of sitting in a barrel in Sweden, with a clear view of the sky but protected from the wind and trekking across Icelandic lava deposits – “The black grit gets everywhere!”. She believes in going out into the field to see the aurora as they happen, and is young enough to enjoy it although field is the wrong word for where she has travelled: Sweden, Norway, Iceland, across Canada with its network of observatories – even Scotland. She debunked some erroneous explanations and who can forget her demonstration of the Tai Chi model of the solar wind? It’s rare for the Amersham Society to have a talk on a scientific theme but when local scientist and traveller Dr Melanie Windridge spoke about Aurora – In Search of the Northern Lights she held a packed audience spell-bound, writes Peter BorrowsĪs a plasma physicist, with a PhD from Imperial College, she was secure in her science but it was dropped in a bit at a time, not to overwhelm the non-scientists present (most of the audience). ![]() ![]() Windridge and her passion for travelling under extreme conditions in the Peter Borrows’ report on her previous talk “Aurora – In Search of the Northern Lights” which she gave at the Society meeting on :ĪURORA – IN SEARCH OF THE NORTHERN LIGHTS In the talk “Summiting the Science of Everest” she will tell us the story of her own summit attempt in 2018. Melanie Windridge, physicist, writer, lecturer and mountaineer. ![]()
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