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APECS Advisory Committee
APECS would like to thank the many members of the Polar Research Community that have agreed to serve as members of our Advisory Committee. Their opinions and input during these early stages of our organizational development are critical. It is also imperative that as young researchers we are guided by senior researchers with valuable wisdom to help our organization grow and our members pass through the stages of professional development that are often challenging.
If you are interested in serving on the Advisory Committee or know someone who would be a great asset, please contact Jenny Baeseman (jbaeseman at gmail.com).
| Mentor | Short Biographical Sketch |
Alan Hemmings | Initially to Antarctica with British Antarctic Survey (1980-83), subsequent visits with French, New Zealand , tourist and Greenpeace expeditions. Research on the behaviour and ecology of skuas in Antarctica and the Chatham Islands . Delegate to Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meetings and Convention for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources since 1989. Senior adviser to Antarctic and Southern Ocean Coalition, Immediate past Chair IUCN Antarctic Advisory Committee, Member Australian Antarctic Science Advisory Committee. |
Andrew McMinn | Andrew graduated from Sydney University with first class honours in Geology (1974). He completed his PhD at Macquarie University with a thesis on dinoflagellate cysts from the Northwest Shelf (WA). Andrew has active research projects in sea ice ecology and primary production, ice algal ecophysiology and Antarctic coastal zone primary production. He also works in both the Arctic and Antarctic on the effects of climate change on marine microbial communities and sea ice ecosystems. |
Angelique Prick | Angélique Prick has been working as Deputy Director for the CliC International Project Office (http://clic.npolar.no/) since July 2006. She received her BSc (1991) and her PhD (1996) in Geographical Sciences at the University of Liège (Belgium). Her research is primarily focused on periglacial geomorphology and permafrost. Much of her work involves monitoring and experimentation on cryogenic rock weathering and mass wasting. Angélique worked at the University of Calgary, Canada (1996-1998); at the University of Giessen, Germany, as a von Humboldt Research Fellow (1999-2000); at UNIS, Svalbard, as a EU-Marie Curie post-doctoral research fellow (2001-2003). She has also been the Executive Officer of the International Permafrost Association (IPA) secretariat (2005-2007). |
Antonio Meloni | |
Bryan Storey | Bryan Storey, BA Trinity College Dublin (1974), PhD University of Birmingham (1979), Fellow of the Geological Society of London, Polar Medal (1987), Professor of Antarctic Studies (2000), Director of Gateway Antarctica 2000-present. Twenty-four years experience as a geologist and programme leader at the British Antarctic Survey. Research interests include continental break-up processes, mantle plumes, tectonic history of Antarctica, and Earth System Science |
| Cecilia Ehrenborg Williams | |
Chuck Kennicutt | Mahlon “Chuck” Kennicutt II received his PhD in Oceanography from Texas A&M University in 1980. After 1 1/2 years of Post-Doctoral work in Geosciences at the University of Tulsa, Dr. Kennicutt returned to Texas A&M University in 1981 and assisted in creating the Geochemical and Environmental Research Group (GERG). At GERG he served in various positions and rose to be Director for 6 1/2 years ending in 2004. He was promoted to full professor with tenure in Oceanography in 2002. At Texas A&M University he has served as a Principal Investigator, Deputy Program Manager, and/or Program Manager on many large interdisciplinary programs. He has participated in/or lead over $22 million worth of research, contracts, and grants during his time at Texas A&M University. He has served as PI on National Science Foundation grants from Marine Chemistry and the Office of Polar Programs. He has spent over 575 days at sea, deployed to Antarctica 6 times, participated in 6 submersible dives in various vessel including the Navy NR-1, and maintains a current project at McMurdo Station, Antarctica. Dr. Kennicutt serves as leader of an interdisciplinary research program entitled the Sustainable Coastal Margins Program (SCMP). The program, created in 2001, is a coalition of six Colleges, 9 academic departments, five centers, and two institutes at Texas A&M as well as five partners external to Texas A&M. He was appointed Director of Sustainable Development in the Office of the Vice President for Research in 2004. Dr. Kennicutt is the US Delegate to, and a Vice President of, the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Within SCAR he serves on various committees including the Standing Committee to the Antarctic Treaty System and is Chair of the Delegates Committee on Scientific Affairs. He has also served as ex officio member of the Polar Research Board since 1998 and has been a science advisor to the US Department of State Antarctic Treaty Delegations since 2002. Dr. Kennicutt has served as a member of several National Academies Committees and acted as a report monitor and external reviewer of several NAS reports. He is Secretary of the SCAR Scientific Research Program Subglacial Antarctic Lake Environments. |
Craig Tweedie | Craig Tweedie was born and raised in Brisbane, Australia, and received all of my university level training at The University of Queensland, graduating BSc, BSc (hons) and a PhD in Botany in 1992, 1995 and 2000 respectively. His honors degree examined the ecology of vascular epiphytes in sub tropical rainforests and his PhD examined the autecology of six plant species along altitudinal gradients on subantarctic Macquarie Island, one of Australia’s 4 permanently occupied Antarctic bases. Between 1993 and 1994 he was employed by the Queensland National Parks and Wildlife Service to conduct flora surveys and devise fire management plans for several national parks in northeastern Australia. Between 2000 and 2005 he was employed by Michigan State University as a visiting research associate where my passion for Arctic and functional ecological research and international scientific networking was established. |
Colin Summerhayes | Dr Colin Summerhayes is an oceanographer and geologist. He comes to SCAR from UNESCO's Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission, in Paris, where he has served since May 1997 as the Director of the Global Ocean Observing System (GOOS) Project Office, and as the IOC Secretariat lead for the Joint WMO/IOC Technical Commission for Oceanography and Marine Meteorology. Dr Summerhayes' career includes spells in academia, government and industry in several countries. |
Cynan Ellis-Evans | Originally a polar microbiologist. Led the Polar Limnology research group at British Antarctic Survey for 25 years. Have spent two winters and 21 field seasons in the Antarctic and Arctic. Involved in exploration of Antarctic subglacial lakes (SALE) for the past decade. Currently Head of BAS Programme Office coordinating UK and international science activities. Involved in development of the current IPY programme since 2003. |
David Carlson | PhD, Oceanography. Professor of Oceanography at Oregon State University. Director of the TOGA COARE International Project Office - a large international project focussed on the western Pacific and global teleconnections. Director of Atmospheric Technology Division for NCAR — that group provided observing tools to weather, climate, and air quality research around the world. Director of IPO since May 2005 |
| Edith Fanta | |
Eystein Markusson | |
Gaell Mainguy | Gaëll Mainguy is a former pupil of the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris and a Doctor in Molecular biology (Pierre and Marie Curie University). He successively works for the CNRS (Paris), the Center for Biomedical Genetics (Utrecht, The Netherlands) and the INSERM (Paris). In 2004, he is elected President of the World Academy of Young Scientists (WAYS). This international organization founded by UNESCO has the task of developing interactions between young scientists across the world, irrespective of their discipline, and of creating areas for interactions between science and society. Gaëll Mainguy joins the Institute in 2006 and is in charge of developing its scientific editorial policy. |
| Halldor Johansson | |
Gerard Jugie  | I am 62 years old and belong to the CNRS agency (Research
Director). During my pure scientific life I was at the beginning a
chemist (specialist of coordination chemistry). In 1973-1974 I have
been research fellow of the Royal Society and worked at Queen Elisabeth
College (Kensington) in the chemistry department. After this scientific activity, I took some responsabilities at the CNRS headquarter as Director of the industrial office and then became successively regional responsible of the CNRS for the western part of France and then for Languedoc Roussilon district. Since 1997 I am Director of the French Polar Institute. I am also elected vice chairman of COMNAP and chairman of EPC. |
Hans-Wolfgang Hubberten | |
 | I am a professor in Atmospheric Science at the University of Tsukuba, Japan. Traditionally it has been referred to as Climatology and Meteorology in Geoscience. I teach Atmospheric Science and Climatology and Meteorology in the College of Natural Science. In the Graduate School, I teach Advanced Class in Atmospheric Science and its Research Method. My expertise is in General Circulation of the Atmosphere. I study on the subjects of jet stream, blocking phenomenon, Arctic Oscillation and medium- to long-range forecasting, using supercomputer and internet for both research and class. |
Ian Allison | Ian Allison (Australia) is a research scientist with the Australian Government Antarctic Division, where he is leader of the Ice, Ocean, Atmosphere and Climate Programme. He has studied the Antarctic for over 35 years, participated in or led more than 25 research expeditions to the Antarctic and published over 100 papers on Antarctic science. His current research interests include the interaction of sea ice with the atmosphere and ocean; the dynamics and mass budget of the East Antarctic ice sheet; melt, freezing and ocean circulation beneath floating ice shelves; and Antarctic weather and climate. |
Larry Hinzman | |
Lars Kullerud | |
| Lassi Heininen | |
Liz Morris  | Liz Morris is a glaciologist at the Scott Polar Research Institute, working on the mass balance of polar ice sheets and their response to climate change using field observations, remote sensing techniques and modeling. She graduated from the University of Bristol in 1967 and remained at the Bristol Physics Department to study for a PhD. Her research interests include (i) basal processes of alpine glaciers (ii) development of physics-based models for hydrological and hydrochemical processes especially those involving snow and ice and (iii) the mass balance and dynamics of polar ice sheets. She has worked in the European Alps, Canadian Rockies, Canadian Arctic, Svalbard and Antarctica, and most recently has been conducting field work in Greenland. Liz was appointed OBE in the Millennium Honours List for services to Polar Science and was awarded the Polar Medal in 2003. |
Lou Sanson | Lou Sanson is the Chief Executive of Antarctica New Zealand, responsible for developing, managing, and executing New Zealand’s activities in Antarctica and the Southern Ocean. Prior to joining Antarctica New Zealand, Lou was employed as Operations Manager and for six years as the Conservator for the Department of Conservation’s Southland Conservancy (Fiordland, Stewart Island and New Zealand’s Sub-Antarctic Islands). He led the establishment of New Zealand’s most recent National Park ‘Rakiura National Park’, the New Zealand Sub-Antarctic Island World Heritage Area, the establishment of Auckland Island and Patterson’s Inlet Marine Reserves, the world’s largest rat eradication project in Campbell Island Nature Reserve, and the successful shift of the world’s most endangered parrot, the Kakapo, back to Fiordland National Park. Lou specialised in mountain-land environmental management (plant ecology, animal biology, geohydrology) at New Zealand’s Forest Research Institute following the completion of an Honours Degree in Forestry Sciences at the University of Canterbury. He worked as an Environmental Forester for the New Zealand Forest Service in Invercargill. He first worked in the Antarctic on glacial drilling and geohydrology projects for the New Zealand and United States Antarctic research programmes in the Dry Valleys in 1982/1983. He has also worked as a New Zealand Government representative and as guest lecturer on Antarctic cruise ships, both in the Ross Sea and Antarctic Peninsula. A keen outdoor person, Lou enjoys natural history, hiking, ski-touring, diving and photography. |
Louise Fortier | As one of Canada's leading environmental researchers in climate change Dr. Fortier has helped place Canada at the forefront of research on the impact of climate change in the Arctic. He holds the Canada Research Chair in Polar Marine Ecosystems at Laval University and is scientific director of ArcticNet, one of Canada's network of Centres of Excellence that, together with Inuit organizations, northern communities, government agencies and the private sector examines the impact of climate change in Canada's Arctic. Dr. Fortier graduated from Laval University with bachelor's and master's degrees and continued his graduate studies at McGill University where he earned his doctorate. After a year as a NATO post-doctoral fellow in the United Kingdom, he returned to Canada to join Laval University in 1989. He is a specialist of the population dynamics of marine zooplankton and fish. Since 1996 he has also been director general of Québec-Océan, le Groupe interinstitutionnel de recherches océanographiques du Québec, a research centre that coordinates the research of oceanographers at Quebec universities. |
Mike Sparrow | Dr Mike Sparrow has a PhD in Physical (Southern Ocean) Oceanography, a Masters degree in Atmospheric Sciences and a Bachelors in Physics. For the last six years he has been based at the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, working for the Climate Variability and Predictability (CLIVAR) project of the World Climate Research Programme, where he has been responsible for coordinating CLIVAR's interests in the Southern Ocean and Antarctic region as well as in Africa. He has also worked in Spain and China and taken part in four cruises to the Antarctic, including two as co-chief scientist. He has published over twenty scientific papers ranging on subjects as diverse as the flow of Antarctic Bottom Water around Antarctica to the study of regional climate change in China, and given media interviews to e.g. Sky News and the Chinese Broadcasting Corporation. His interests include writing historical fiction, Capoeira and surviving his two year old son. |
| Ninis Rosqvist | |
Odd Rogne | Graduated both as a business economist and naval officer, Odd Rogne came into polar research in 1979 as Deputy Director of the Norwegian Polar Institute. A few years later, he became its Director. He is one of the founders of COMNAP, FARO and IASC; and the Executive Secretary of IASC until 2006. He was also the Norwegian delegate to SCAR for several years. Ex-officio member of the Joint Committee until 2006. Presently, he is Senior Advisor to AMAP as well as the IPO. |
Patti Virtue | |
Paul Berkman | Paul integrates science, policy and information technology as a Research Professor at the Bren School of Environmental Science & Management at the University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB). Paul also is the Chief Executive Officer and co-founder of EvREsearch LTD, which utilizes its patented Digital Integration System (DigIn®) for government, business and education applications. Paul is the author of Science into Policy: Global Lessons from Antarctica (Academic Press), which emerged from an undergraduate capstone course that he began teaching at the University of California Los Angeles as a Visiting Professor in 1982 after wintering in Antarctica with Scripps Institution of Oceanography the year following his bachelor’s degree at UCSB. Paul has a M.S. and Ph.D. in biological oceanography from the University of Rhode Island, where he was a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellow. For his research and education activities which include nearly 80 publications - Paul also received the Antarctic Service Medal from the United States Congress as well as fellowships from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration; Japanese Ministry of Science, Education and Culture; Ohio State University; and University of Canterbury in New Zealand. Prof. Berkman currently is a Fulbright Distinguished Scholar at the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom. |
| Paul Egerton | |
Paul Wassmann | |
Robert Bindschadler | As one of Canada's leading environmental researchers in climate change Dr. Fortier has helped place Canada at the forefront of research on the impact of climate change in the Arctic. He holds the Canada Research Chair in Polar Marine Ecosystems at Laval University and is scientific director of ArcticNet, one of Canada's network of Centres of Excellence that, together with Inuit organizations, northern communities, government agencies and the private sector examines the impact of climate change in Canada's Arctic. Dr. Fortier graduated from Laval University with bachelor's and master's degrees and continued his graduate studies at McGill University where he earned his doctorate. After a year as a NATO post-doctoral fellow in the United Kingdom, he returned to Canada to join Laval University in 1989. He is a specialist of the population dynamics of marine zooplankton and fish. Since 1996 he has also been director general of Québec-Océan, le Groupe interinstitutionnel de recherches océanographiques du Québec, a research centre that coordinates the research of oceanographers at Quebec universities. |
Robin Bell | Robin E. Bell is a Doherty Senior Research Scientist at Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory. She received her doctorate in marine geophysics from Columbia University. Bell has coordinated seven major aero-geophysical expeditions to Antarctica, studying what makes ice sheets collapse. Using data collected from small ski-equipped aircraft and satellite data she has discovered a volcano beneath the West Antarctic ice sheet. Working with colleagues from NASA and the University of New Hampshire, this past year she identified several new lakes. In 2006 Bell received an honorary degree from Middlebury College. She serves as the chair of the National Academy of Sciences Polar Research Board. |
| Sara Bowden | |
Shulamit Gordon  | Shulamit grew up in England, lived in Canada for four years, and has called New Zealand home for the past 8 years. She graduated in Geography at Bristol University, UK, then went on to do a Masters in Glaciology at the University of Alberta in Canada. For these degrees she spent four summer seasons working on a beautiful glacier in the Swiss Alps studying its hydrology. Subsequent to her finishing her Masters degree, Shulamit spent a season in the Canadian High Arctic on Ellesmere Island assisting a doctoral student with his fieldwork and avoiding the polar bears. This was followed by 2 years as a project coordinator in an environmental consulting company in Canada. She then spent two summer seasons in Antarctica as a research technician with a US glaciology event studying the movement of the mighty ice streams that feed the Ross Ice Shelf. Between these seasons Shulamit fell for New Zealand when she got a chance to travel and work there. Shulamit has worked with the New Zealand Antarctic programme (Antarctica New Zealand) for 7 years as Science Advisor. Her role includes coordinating the annual application round for NZ science support, administering postgraduate scholarships, and organsing Antarctica NZ’s annual Antarctic conference. She is also the Project Manager for the Latitudinal Gradient Project (LGP), which is a long term ecological project studying sites along the Victoria Land coast, and the Secretary for Evolution and Biodiversity in the Antarctic – once of SCAR’s five science programmes. Out of work, Shulamit’s interests include playing ice hokey, bike riding, swimming, tramping in the New Zealand bush and singing. |
| Veijo Pohjola | |
Volker Rachold | Dr. Volker Rachold graduated as a geochemist at Göttingen University (Germany) where he also obtained his Ph.D. in 1994. During the following 11 years he worked with the Alfred Wegener Institute in Potsdam and Bremerhaven (Germany). His research focused on land-ocean interactions in the Siberian Arctic and he led 8 land- and ship-based Russian-German expeditions. In 2006, he became the Executive Secretary of the International Arctic Science Committee (IASC) and an ex-officio member of the IPY Joint Committee |
Wendy Warnick | Wendy has lived in Fairbanks, Alaska since 1976 and has worked with ARCUS since 1992. She directs the programs and activities of ARCUS, including program planning and development, assisting arctic researchers in the development and implementation of Arctic-related science plans, preparing scientific reports, planning and coordinating scientific workshops, and developing arctic science education programs. She loves the North, with its great variety of landscapes, cultures, and opportunities, but enjoys traveling with her husband Andy in other parts of the world as well. Wendy enjoys whitewater boating, cycling, reading, and sleeping. She has appreciated the opportunity over the past fifteen years to work with the diverse Arctic research community and the excellent ARCUS "team" and looks forward to continuing to do so in various ways in the years to come. |
| Yuji Kodama | |
Yves Frenot | Dr Yves Frenot is Director of Research, appopinted by the CNRS. He has more than 20 years experience in the terrestrial ecology of the subantarctic islands. His PhD was conducted on the soil characteristics and the earthworm fauna of Ile de la Possession, Crozet Islands. Then, his field of research moved to the colonisation processes on glacier forelands at Kerguelen Islands. This new topics allowed to develop a large multidisciplinary project, involving soil scientists, geomorphologists, botanists and zoologists. During the last years, his research focused on the impact of climate change and human activities on the subantarctic biodiversity, namely on introduced alien species. This work was carried out under the umbrella of the RiSCC programme (SCAR). He is currently Deputy-Director of the French Polar Institute (IPEV) and he was elected in 2005 vice-chair of the Committee for Environmental Protection (CEP), belonging to the Antarctic Treaty System. |