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

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