I retired from BAS in 2009, after 40 years as a polar ecologist. My fieldwork was based mostly at South Georgia (1970 – 1982), Signy Island (1984 – 1994) and Rothera (1997 – 2009), though I also worked at McMurdo, Palmer and Svalbard and undertook numerous oceanographic cruises. At Signy I established a research group working on the nearshore marine ecology, which moved to Rothera in 1997, and in 1997 I established the Rothera Oceanographic and Biological Times-Series (RaTS) monitoring programme; both have now passed to new and very capable hands. From 1994 to 2004 I chaired the Scientific Steering Committee of the SCAR international programme on the Ecology of the Antarctic Sea-Ice Zone (EASIZ). My scientific work was divided roughly equally between the ecology and physiology of marine invertebrates, biological oceanography, and the evolutionary history and biological diversity of the Antarctic marine fauna. The link between these three seemingly disparate topics is the relationship between organisms and temperature. I continue to work on this, though at a more relaxed pace in retirement.
Clarke, A., & Fisher, A. (2025). Weekly summaries of marine mammal sightings in Ryder Bay 1998 – 2023 (Version 1.0) [Data set]. NERC EDS UK Polar Data Centre. https://doi.org/10.5285/a1095421-60ef-465c-8e1d-1738a9c07e20
Clarke, A., & Johnston, N. (2025). A compilation of metabolic rate, body mass and body temperature (where available) data for a range of vertebrate and invertebrate species (Version 1.0) [Data set]. NERC EDS UK Polar Data Centre. https://doi.org/10.5285/8d9ffd4a-16c0-4d48-9fc9-02988676ef78
Clarke, A., Hughes, K., Phillips, R., Venables, H., Fisher, A., Beaumont, J., Bolton, E., Chapman, A., Clark, M., Collins, C., Duggan, S., Fenton, M., Geissler, P., Hall, R., Heiser, S., Hinde, S., King, M., Loines, J., Mann, P., … Waring, Z. (2024). Rothera wildlife sightings 1998 to 2021 (Version 1.0) [Data set]. NERC EDS UK Polar Data Centre. https://doi.org/10.5285/4d3b48df-a85f-415f-bef8-9c213816b0d2
Peck, L., Colman, J., & Clarke, A. (2024). Biomass data for larvae of the Antarctic bivalve mollusc Aequiyoldia eightsii collected from Factory Cove, Signy Island in 1990 (Version 1.0) [Data set]. NERC EDS UK Polar Data Centre. https://doi.org/10.5285/2790409c-e8e3-40a9-a189-792c3c853f5b
Murphy, E., Dunn, M., Turner, J., Clarke, A., & Abram, N. (2022). South Orkney Fast-Ice Series (SOFI) – Version 2.0 (Version 2.0) [Data set]. NERC EDS UK Polar Data Centre. https://doi.org/10.5285/0313090c-373e-4e2e-97f2-6cd0d4138e75
Clarke, A., Meredith, M., Venables, H., Hendry, K., Peat, H., ten Hoopen, P., Brandon, M., Henley, S., Annett, A., Leng, M., Arrowsmith, C., Chapman, A., Beaumont, J., Piper, R., Miller, A., Mann, P., Rossetti, H., Massey, A., Souster, T., … Clement, A. (2022). Quasi-weekly, year-round oceanographic and ice measurements at the coastal Western Antarctic Peninsula from 1997 to 2018 (Version 1.0) [Data set]. NERC EDS UK Polar Data Centre. https://doi.org/10.5285/50acb5b7-5b42-44cd-a98e-790bd367f204
Clarke, A., Peat, H., Chapman, A., Beaumont, J., Piper, R., Miller, A., & Mann, P. (2021). Feeding activity in shallow water marine benthos at Ryder Bay, Antarctica, 1997-2005 (Version 1.0) [Data set]. NERC EDS UK Polar Data Centre. https://doi.org/10.5285/159edb0c-15d4-4d2b-ba49-fbd69f2e1a66
Clarke, A., & Beaumont, J. (2020). A high resolution record of temperature in a tidepool at Rothera Point Antarctica, from Feb 1999 to May 2000. (Version 1.0) [Data set]. UK Polar Data Centre, Natural Environment Research Council, UK Research & Innovation. https://doi.org/10.5285/b13199d2-9737-481e-9c1a-95e736eaa5db
Murphy, E. (2014). South Orkney Fast-Ice series (SOFI) (Version 1.0) [Data set]. NERC EDS UK Polar Data Centre. https://doi.org/10.5285/f9e983e6-d2d8-4988-9c56-ca040b51ee39
Antarctica more diverse and biologically rich than previously thought The team of scientists, led by Monash University, along with colleagues from the British Antarctic Survey, University of Waikato in New […]
Her Majesty the Queen has awarded four members of British Antarctic Survey the Polar Medal for outstanding service to the UK. The Polar Medal was instituted in 1904 for members […]
Scientists have discovered Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba) living and feeding down to depths of 3000 metres in the waters around the Antarctic Peninsula. Until now this shrimp-like crustacean was thought […]
The papers are: CLARKE A. & GASTON K.J. 2006. Climate, energy and diversity. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B, 273, 2257–2266. This is a very important paper […]
