Peter King is the facility manager of the Autonomous Maritime Systems Laboratory, University of Tasmania. He is a computer engineer who has spend the past 12 years working with underwater robotics, specifically autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs).

Peter’s talk explored the challenges of working in Antarctica and showcased the work that has been done over the past three years and is planned for this upcoming season. Deploying a robotic submarine beneath the ice of Antarctica is a daunting challenge, but the information returned is critical to our understanding of how glacial ice melts and changes.