 She has also been there a few times as part of the National Science Foundation's Polar Program, which manages the funding for research and operations support in the Arctic and the Antarctic.On one of these trips, Roach accompanied a team of marine sediment experts on the research vessel, Nathaniel B. Palmer, in order to collect core samples from the depths of the ocean off Antarctica in order to learn more about global warming.Although Roach does not possess a science degree, she attempts to take complex ideas and turn them into something that the average reader can understand.