Controlled Environment Facility (CEF)
An advanced research centre dedicated to studying polar ecosystems
I am a laboratory manager at BAS with responsibility for the biological specimens storage facilities (-80°C, -20°C, +4°C and preserved specimen storage) and various laboratory facilities and services including elemental (CHN) analysis.
I have spent 8 summers and 2 winters in Antarctica, first over-wintering at Rothera Research Station from November 1998 to March 2001 as terrestrial biology field research assistant (spectroradiometry, micro-meteorological stations, controlled environment facilities, field collections & laboratory management).
1993-1996: Institute of Terrestrial Ecology (now CEH), Bangor, Air Pollution and Climate Change Section – Air Pollution Research Facilities Manager (hardware and software engineering, data analysis, ecophysiology).
1986-1993: Research Assistant at the University of Nottingham Sutton Bonington Campus, Department of Physiology and Environmental Science – from 1986-1991 as an Air Pollution Exposure Systems Technician (primarily control systems hardware and software engineering, data analysis, ecophysiology) and from 1991-1993 as statistician and analyst for a European (UNECE) programme on the effects of ozone pollution on crops.
1984-1986: NERC funded research studentship at Loughborough University of Technology Environmental Biology Unit looking at reproductive strategies and population differentiation in Cladocera using genetically determined enzyme polymorphism.
1980-1983: Loughborough University of Technology, Department of Human Sciences BSc degree in Animal and Plant Ecology.
Convey, P., Newsham, K., Geissler, P., Jobson, M., & Fox, D. (2025). Microclimate data from The Backslope behind Signy Island research station, South Orkney Islands, Antarctic 2017-2024 (Version 1.0) [Data set]. NERC EDS UK Polar Data Centre. https://doi.org/10.5285/085043be-4f39-4529-83a7-95173ff5a376
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
Convey, P., Geissler, P., Massey, A., & Newsham, K. (2022). Microclimate data from Coal Nunatak, Alexander Island, 2006-2019 [Version 2.0] (Version 1.0) [Data set]. NERC EDS UK Polar Data Centre. https://data.bas.ac.uk/full-record.php?id=GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/01598
Convey, P., Newsham, K., Geissler, P., & Jobson, M. (2021). Microclimate data from Jane Col, Signy Island, Antarctica 2007-2016 [Version 2.0] (Version 2.0) [Data set]. NERC EDS UK Polar Data Centre. https://doi.org/10.5285/1bf0cfe7-a2e6-4c82-a0cd-d913876b6854
Convey, P., Newsham, K., Geissler, P., Massey, A., & Jobson, M. (2020). Microclimate data from Mars Oasis, 2000-2019 (Version 1.0) [Data set]. UK Polar Data Centre, Natural Environment Research Council, UK Research & Innovation. https://doi.org/10.5285/665f8055-8f82-4395-92de-c29ac9d30b23
Convey, P., Newsham, K., Geissler, P., Massey, A., & Jobson, M. (2020). Microclimate data from Jane Col, 2007-2016 (Version 1.0) [Data set]. UK Polar Data Centre, Natural Environment Research Council, UK Research & Innovation. https://doi.org/10.5285/5c380c93-986e-499c-b09f-25939daf4766
Convey, P., Newsham, K., Geissler, P., Massey, A., & Jobson, M. (2020). Microclimate data from Coal Nunatak, 2006-2019 (Version 1.0) [Data set]. UK Polar Data Centre, Natural Environment Research Council, UK Research & Innovation. https://doi.org/10.5285/7bb5c557-a806-4fce-ba09-94a70a0be934
Convey, P., Newsham, K., Geissler, P., Massey, A., & Jobson, M. (2020). Microclimate data from Anchorage Island, 2001-2009 (Version 1.0) [Data set]. UK Polar Data Centre, Natural Environment Research Council, UK Research & Innovation. https://doi.org/10.5285/91d75173-6daa-4544-9ea0-bf47c5eff4eb
Shanklin, J., Roscoe, H., & Geissler, P. (2007). British Antarctic Survey Ozone Data (Version 1.0) [Data set]. NERC EDS UK Polar Data Centre. https://data.bas.ac.uk/full-record.php?id=GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/00255
An advanced research centre dedicated to studying polar ecosystems