I am a Scientific Data Manager based in the UK Polar Data Centre, BAS. My main focus is the management of biological data from the Higher Predator and Conservation group within the Ecosystems team and from terrestrial projects within Biodiversity, Evolution and Adaptation. I also manage the BAS Herbarium and its associated Antarctic Plant Database, as well as data from geology projects within Geology and Geophysics.
Education
2008-2012 PhD, University of Hertfordshire, Thesis entitled: Diversity and Distribution of Epiphytic Bryophytes in Apple Orchards
2006-2007 MSc Ecology, Bangor University
2000-2003 BSc Archaeology, University of York
This project assesses how climate change affects Patagonian and Antarctic toothfish populations in the South Atlantic. Led by British Antarctic Survey (BAS), it focuses on the UK Overseas Territory of South Georgia & the South Sandwich Islands.
Port Lockroy is the site of the first permanent British Antarctic base, ‘Base A’.
The key objective is to identify and implement management techniques which will as far as possible be sympathetic to wildlife and encourage native species, in order to sustain and enhance biodiversity at BAS Cambridge.
Contains over 200,000 individual rock and fossil specimens collected from Antarctica and the sub-Antarctic islands and thousands of meters of sediment core from the surrounding seabed.
The plant collections held in the British Antarctic Survey’s herbarium consist of over 40,000 plant specimens from Antarctica, the sub-Antarctic Islands and surrounding continents.
