Andrew Clarke

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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.

Publications from NERC Open Research Archive

2017

Annett, Amber L., Henley, Sian F., Venables, Hugh J., Meredith, Michael P., Clarke, Andrew, Ganeshram, Raja S.. (2017) Silica cycling and isotopic composition in northern Marguerite Bay on the rapidly-warming western Antarctic Peninsula. Deep Sea Research II: Topical Studies in Oceanography, 139. 132-142. 10.1016/j.dsr2.2016.09.006

Henley, Sian F., Turena, Robyn E., Annett, Amber L., Fallick, Anthony E., Meredith, Michael P., Venables, Hugh J., Clarke, Andrew, Ganeshram, Raja S.. (2017) Macronutrient supply, uptake and recycling in the coastal ocean of the west Antarctic Peninsula. Deep Sea Research II: Topical Studies in Oceanography, 139. 58-76. 10.1016/j.dsr2.2016.10.003

Evans, Claire, Brandsma, Joost, Pond, David W., Venables, Hugh J., Meredith, Michael P., Witte, Harry J., Stammerjohn, Sharon, Wilson, William H., Clarke, Andrew, Brussaard, Corina P.D.. (2017) Drivers of interannual variability in virioplankton abundance at the coastal Western Antarctic Peninsula and the potential effects of climate change. Environmental Microbiology, 19. 740-755. 10.1111/1462-2920.13627

Rozema, P. D., Venables, H. J., van de Poll, W. H., Clarke, A., Meredith, M. P., Buma, A. G. J.. (2017) Interannual variability in phytoplankton biomass and species composition in northern Marguerite Bay (West Antarctic Peninsula) is governed by both winter sea ice cover and summer stratification. Limnology and Oceanography, 62. 235-252. doi:10.1002/lno.10391

2015

Chown, Steven L., Clarke, Andrew, Fraser, Ceridwen I., Cary, S. Craig, Moon, Katherine L., McGeoch, Melodie A.. (2015) The changing form of Antarctic biodiversity. Nature, 522. 431-438. doi:10.1038/nature14505

2014

Clarke, Andrew, O'Connor, Mary I.. (2014) Diet and body temperature in mammals and birds. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 23. 1000-1008. doi:10.1111/geb.12185

Murphy, E.J., Clarke, A., Abram, N.J., Turner, J.. (2014) Variability of sea-ice in the northern Weddell Sea during the 20th century. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 119. 4549-4572. doi:10.1002/2013JC009511

Morley, Simon A., Lai, Chien-Hsiang, Clarke, Andrew, Tan, Koh Siang, Thorne, Michael A. S., Peck, Lloyd S.. (2014) Limpet feeding rate and the consistency of physiological response to temperature. Journal of Comparative Physiology B, 184. 563-570. 10.1007/s00360-014-0814-3

Convey, Peter, Chown, Steven L., Clarke, Andrew, Barnes, David K.A., Bokhorst, Stef, Cummings, Vonda, Ducklow, Hugh W., Frati, Francesco, Green, T. G. Allan, Gordon, Shulamit, Griffiths, Huw J., Howard-Williams, Clive, Huiskes, Ad H. L., Laybourn-Parry, Johanna, Lyons Berry, W. , McMinn, Andrew, Morley, Simon A., Peck, Lloyd S., Quesada, Antonio, Robinson, Sharon A., Schiaparelli, Stefano, Wall, Diana H.. (2014) The spatial structure of Antarctic biodiversity. Ecological Monographs, 84. 203-244. doi:10.1890/12-2216.1

Clarke, Andrew. (2014) The thermal limits to life on Earth. International Journal of Astrobiology, 13. 141-154. doi:10.1017/S1473550413000438

2013

Clarke, Andrew. (2013) Dinosaur energetics: setting the bounds on feasible physiologies and ecologies. The American Naturalist, 182. 283-297. doi:10.1086/671259

Clarke, Andrew, Morris, G. John, Fonseca, Fernanda, Murray, Benjamin J., Acton, Elizabeth, Price, Hannah C.. (2013) A low temperature limit for life on Earth. PLoS ONE, 8. 11 pp. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0066207

Clarke, A., Peck, L.S.. (2013) Polar Ecosystems. In: Reference Module in Earth Systems and Environmental Sciences, Elsevier, doi:10.1016/B978-0-12-409548-9.04296-2

Hoffman, J.I., Clarke, A., Clark, M.S., Peck, L.S.. (2013) Hierarchical population genetic structure in a direct developing Antarctic marine invertebrate. PLoS One, 8. 10.1371/journal.pone.0063954

Weston, Keith, Jickells, Timothy D., Carson, Damien S., Clarke, Andrew, Meredith, Michael P., Brandon, Mark A., Wallace, Margaret I., Ussher, Simon J., Hendry, Katharine R.. (2013) Primary production export flux in Marguerite Bay (Antarctic Peninsula): Linking upper water-column production to sediment trap flux. Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers, 75. 52-66. doi:10.1016/j.dsr.2013.02.001

Venables, Hugh J., Clarke, Andrew, Meredith, Michael P.. (2013) Wintertime controls on summer stratification and productivity at the western Antarctic Peninsula. Limnology and Oceanography, 58. 1035-1047. 10.4319/lo.2013.58.3.1035

Hughes, C., Johnson, M., Utting, R., Turner, S., Malin, G., Clarke, A., Liss, P.S.. (2013) Microbial control of bromocarbon concentrations in coastal waters of the western Antarctic Peninsula. Marine Chemistry, 151. 35-46. doi:10.1016/j.marchem.2013.01.007

Meredith, Michael P., Venables, Hugh J., Clarke, Andrew, Ducklow, Hugh W., Erickson, Matthew, Leng, Melanie J., Lenaerts, Jan T. M., van den Broeke, Michiel R.. (2013) The freshwater system west of the Antarctic Peninsula: spatial and temporal changes. Journal of Climate, 26. 1669-1684. 10.1175/JCLI-D-12-00246.1

1989

Clarke, Andrew. (1989) Seabirds. In: Marine biogenic lipids, fats, and oils, Boca Raton, Fla., CRC Press, 383-398.

Clarke, Andrew, Crame, J. Alistair. (1989) The origin of the Southern Ocean marine fauna. In: Origins and evolution of the Antarctic biota, London, Geological Society of London, 253-268. (Geological Society special publication, 47). 10.1144/GSL.SP.1989.047.01.19

Clarke, Andrew, Ellis-Evans, J. Cynan, Sanders, Mark W., Holmes, Lesley J.. (1989) Patterns of energy storage in Pseudoboeckella poppei (Crustacea, Copepoda) from two contrasting lakes on Signy Island, Antarctica. In: High latitude limnology, Dordrecht, Kluwer, 183-191. (Develpments in hydrobiology, ).

Clarke, Andrew, Rodhouse, Paul G., Holmes, Lesley J., Pascoe, Philip L.. (1989) Growth rate and nucleic acid ratio in cultured cuttlefish Sepia officinalis (Mollusca: Cephalopoda). Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, 133. 229-240. 10.1016/0022-0981(89)90047-6