Matt delves into the mysteries of data analysis in this latest instalment of our office blog relay, a whistle-stop tour of Greenpeace staff here in the UK. Click here to catch up on the other entries.

"Oi monkey!" started a recent note left on my desk. This was, I hasten to add, a reference to my job here at Greenpeace. I work as a business analyst in the supporter development department. How, you ask, does monkey relate to this? The answer is data – data monkey (or, on a good day, data wizard)!

My role is a combination of the following; business process analysis, business intelligence, fundraising supporter selections, supporter information analysis and integration and any other data related work. That's great, fascinating, you say - but what are you actually talking about?

Reyes works for Greenpeace's Research Labratories and is normally based in Exeter but she's just begun a year long project working with our office in India. Reyes already wrote for the blog relay last month but we convinced her to write a monthly update about her adventures in India and here's her first update.

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Although part-time, Chris is at his desk far more than the photo suggests, but still finds time to stop and smell the flowers. Click here to catch up on the other entries to our office blog relay, a whistle-stop tour of Greenpeace staff here in the UK. Read more »

Rich risks office ridicule to explain why he is not a typical Greenpeace fundraiser in his submission to our office blog relay, but he's big enough to handle it. Click here to catch up on the other entries to our office blog relay, a whistle-stop tour of Greenpeace staff here in the UK.

Richard is a network developer in our active supporters unit, and is next up in the blog relay, a whistle-stop tour of Greenpeace staff here in the UK. Click here to catch up on the other entries.

On a good day in the office I struggle in bleary eyed and desperate for a coffee to fight off the sleep deprivation.

Frances puts her corned beef to one side for a moment Frances volunteers for our biodiversity campaigns and is next up in the blog relay, a whistle-stop tour of Greenpeace staff here in the UK. Click here to catch up on the other entries.

People sometimes ask me why I volunteer for Greenpeace. Well, let's see what I do and why.

As a volunteer on the forests and oceans campaigns, my job involves doing investigative research work. The work is pretty varied, and is a combination of doing desk research and getting out and about in the big wide world.

For example, as part of our Amazon work, I've been visiting various supermarkets, looking at whether we can link the beef products on their shelves back to companies who we know are involved in destroying the rainforests. Today, cattle farms occupy nearly 80 per cent of all deforested land in the Brazilian Amazon. Many of the beef products from these farms are sold on the world market. The Amazon doesn't belong on a supermarket shelf labelled as corned beef!

After a brief break, our high value fundraiser Louise is kicking off another round in our blog relay, a whistle-stop tour of Greenpeace staff here in the UK. Click here to catch up on the other entries.

Like my colleague Andrew, I'm rather smug too - I love my job. I'm employed to make sure the people who fund our existence know how we spend their money wisely and effectively. I'm often the contact point for the amazing people that give very generous gifts to our campaigns. They range from the couple who give us £1,000 each year instead of buying Christmas and birthday presents for their entire family (yes, these amazing people are real), or a foundation which generously grants us £70,000 for a specific project, such as our palm oil work in Indonesia. 

Molly is our online marketing coordinator and is next up in the blog relay, a whistle-stop tour of Greenpeace staff here in the UK. Click here to catch up on the other entries.

In January 2005, the Onilahy River in southwest Madagascar flooded. Nineteen people were killed and thousands left homeless. The cyclone that caused it was probably exacerbated by climate change; the landslides that followed were definitely made worse by extensive deforestation in the area.

The flood was little reported outside Madagascar. Similar events, caused or worsened by environmental destruction, happen all over the world on a regular basis, and most of them don't make the news. The only reason I know about it is because I was there.

Coal campaigner Emma is next up in the blog relay, a whistle-stop tour of Greenpeace staff here in the UK. Click here to catch up on the other entries.

When I applied for a job at Greenpeace and was then actually offered the job I couldn't believe it. In fact I asked them if they'd phoned the wrong person. A week before I was due to start I got a phone call asking if I could come in a bit earlier on my first day. At 4am in fact. Oh, and I'd be dressing up as a puffin and would probably get arrested. And I wasn't allowed to tell anyone about this phone call!

Whenever anyone asks me what it's like to work at Greenpeace the word that always springs to mind is privileged. Not only do I feel privileged to do a job that I enjoy with equally passionate people but more importantly to be able translate my anger about the damage done to people and the natural world into concrete positive action.