Helen Bostock is Associate Professor in Oceanography at the University of Queensland. Helen is a deep sea explorer who has participated on 13 research voyages from the tropics to Antarctica over the last 20 years to study the deep ocean and seafloor. She has worked on a wide range of topics which include understanding the ocean-seafloor interactions, ocean-climate feedbacks in the present and past, ocean acidification, plankton and deep sea organisms.