Kristin Wilson is currently a PhD candidate at the School for Science in Society, Te Herenga Waka – Victoria University of Wellington. Working on Te Pūnaha Matatini’s McMurdo Dry Valleys project, Kristin’s research joins social-ecological systems/complexity theory with science studies, spatial analysis, and computational modelling methods to study the intertwined relationship of science and environment in Antarctica, broadly construed as “balance”. This interdisciplinary work spans the fields of geography, sustainability science, science studies, and computational social science – and is a search for better models.