Our special series on bespoke and unusual GLAM collections continues, with Ray Langenfelds from CSIRO’s Aspendale atmospheric science laboratories.

Ray spoke with Hugh Rundle about the Kennaook/Cape Grim Air Archive – how it started, the surprising back-story of the canisters used to store the original samples, and why this very unusual archive is so important to global science.

Further reading:

Cape Grim Air Archive (CSIROpedia)

The cleanest air in the world is at Tasmania’s Kennaook/Cape Grim. It’s helping solve a climate puzzle (ABC Online)

Before it was Cape Grim, it was known as Kennaook (CSIRO)

Theme Music by Professor Kliq – ‘Work at night’, sourced from Free Music Archive under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA licence.

Recorded on unceded Wurundjeri country. Edited on unceded Wadawurrung country.