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External Contributions to Polar Activities
Kangerdlussuaq Fjord, East Greenland
National and International Roles of Staff
Members of the Institute are active in many roles relating to national and international committees and advisory groups
involving the polar regions, and are members of the editorial boards of a number of international journals. These include:
• President, International Glaciological Society
• Head of the Glaciers and Ice Sheets Division of the
International Commission for Snow and Ice (ICSI)
• Chair of the UK National Committee on Antarctic
Research
• UK Alternate Delegate to the Council of the Scientific
Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
• UK Delegate to the Council of the International Arctic
Science Committee (IASC)
• Member of the NERC Peer Review College and Chair of
Grants Committee Panel C
• Chair of the NERC Review Committee for the
Challenger Division of Southampton Oceanography
Centre
• Chair of the Marine Studies Group, Geological Society
of London
• Member of Hadley Centre Scientific Steering Group
• Member of the UK Antarctic Place–Names Committee
• Three members of the UK International Polar Year
Committee
• UK representative on the International Arctic Science
Committee (IASC) working group on Arctic Glaciers.
• UK Delegate to the International Science Initiative for
the Russian Arctic.
• Member of the international steering group for the
Tundra–Taiga Initiative.
• Co–ordinating Principal Investigator, European Space
Agency Vectra synthetic–aperture radar interferometry
consortium.
• Permanent UK representative of the Association of
Marine Mammal Hunters of Chukotka.
• Editorial Board member: Geology, Earth Surface
Processes and Landforms, Transactions of the Royal
Society of Edinburgh, Annals of Glaciology.
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