Current Committee Members

Ian Allison – Committee Chair

Ian Allison is an Honorary Research Professor within the Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems Cooperative Research Centre in Hobart, and the former leader of the Ice Ocean Atmosphere and Climate program at the Australian Antarctic Division. He has studied ice and climate in Antarctica for more than 40 years, participated in or led 25 research expeditions to the Antarctic and published over 100 peer-reviewed papers on Antarctic science. His research interests include ice shelf ocean interaction; Antarctic weather and climate; sea ice; and the mass budget of the Antarctic ice sheet. Ian was co-Chair of the ICSU/WMO Joint Committee for the International Polar Year 2007-2008, a lead author of the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report, and he is currently the President of the International Association of Cryospheric Science and a lead author of the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report.

Moon Young Choe - Committee Member

Moon Young Choe is Principal Research Scientist and Director, Division of Polar Earth-System Sciences at Korea Polar Research Institute (KOPRI). His background is in Oceanography and Sedimentology. he has participated and also lead overwintering scientific groups at the Korean King Sejong Station in Antarctica. He is involved with Geology and Sedimentology research within KOPRI, and has several publications resulting from his research. He has been active as the Korean National Correspondent for the International Association of Sedimentologists since 2002.

Alexander Klepikov - Committee Member

Alexander Klepikov is currently the head of Department for the Antarctic Oceanographic and Climatic Studies at the Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia. His research interests include physical oceanography of the Southern Ocean, polar ocean modelling, and polar climate dynamics. Current scientific positions include, among others, International Antarctic Zone (SCOR) Steering Committee member, SCAR Oceanography Expert Group, and member of Arctic Council’s SWIPA project. He is also a member of the Russian National Council of Climate and Cryosphere. Alexander is the author of about 40 papers in major refereed Russian and international scientific journals, book chapters, and many international reports.

Daniela Liggett - Committee Member

Daniela Liggett is based at Gateway Antarctica, The University of Canterbury in New Zealand, where she completed her PhD on Antarctic tourism regulation in 2008. Her current research interests include environmental management in remote wilderness areas, Antarctic governance, and polar tourism. She is a member of the 2009-2010 Executive Committee of the Association of Polar Early Career Scientists (APECS) and was the President of APECS in 2008-2009. She tries to encourage cooperation and transparency within the Polar social sciences through the Social Sciences and Humanities Antarctic Research Exchange (SHARE) and in her position as the co-chair of the SCAR Social Science Action Group.

John Turner - Committee Member

John Turner is a research scientist at the British Antarctic Survey in Cambridge, UK where he leads a project investigating recent Antarctic climate change and how it may change over the next century. He is also a Visiting Professor at the University of Malaya. His research interests include the synoptic and mesoscale weather systems of the polar regions, Antarctic precipitation, sea ice variability and the impact of the Antarctic ‘ozone hole’. He has had a long involvement with the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) and was the Chief Officer of the Physical Sciences Standing Scientific Group from 2002 to 2006 and chaired the steering committee of the SCAR programme on Antarctica and the Global Climate System from 2005 to 2008. He is the co-author of ‘Antarctic Meteorology and Climatology’, ‘Polar Lows: Mesoscale Weather Systems in the Polar Regions’ and ‘Climate Change in the Polar Regions’, all of which were published by Cambridge University Press. He was the lead editor of the Antarctic Climate Change and the Environment report published by SCAR in 2009. He was awarded the International Journal of Climatology Prize of the Royal Meteorological Society in 2005 and the SCAR Medal for Excellence in Antarctic Research in 2010.