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Where will YOU be tomorrow?

CAREERS FAIR27 OCTOBER 2005

Institute of Physics76 Portland Place, London, W1B 1NT

Where will your career take you? To find out more about what jobs are available to people with a science orengineering degree, and to talk to prospective employers,come along to the Institute of Physics Careers Fair on 27 October 2005.

For more information, go to:http://careers.iop.org/careers_fair or email [email protected]

Jan Diettrich is a physicist at theBritish Antarctic Survey, looking at the atmospheric temperature with two high powered lasers in a region of outer space called the mesopause,and above. There, at around 90-100 km altitude, temperature can get below -123 °C. Cooling of the mesopause is an indication ofclimate change on Earth. He recentlyspent two summers collecting data in Antarctica. Photos courtesy of the British Antarctic Survey