Working

After a brief period with British Telecom, following sponsorship with them through university, I spent two years in the Antarctic at the British Halley Base as a Meteorological Observer/Technician making daily weather and ozone observations and a variety of other tasks as needs demanded.

I had several other contracts with the British Antarctic Survey and am now on an open-ended contract. I worked as the instrumentation engineer on a boundary layer meteorology project. This involved designing, building and deploying a variety of manned and unmanned instruments and logging systems from a remote wind radar measuring wintertime katabatic flow; remote automatic weather stations to instruments that hang from kites and balloons or sit inside rockets to sample the lower atmosphere.

2002 was rather a good year being awarded the Fuch's medal and the Len Curtis award.

Finally getting around to adding some South Georgia and Antarctic photos.

For 2005 I moved to a new position as the technician/scientist responsible for the meteorological instrument fit to one of Survey's Twin Otter aircraft. This will involve flight testing in Canada and the UK together with Antarctic seasons for the next few years.

PAPERS ONLINE

Airborne measurements in a stable boundary layer over the Larsen Ice Shelf, Antarctica(2008)

An Autonomous Doppler Sodar Wind Profiling System (2005)

Imaging of firn isochrones across an Antarctic ice rise and implications for patterns of snow accumulation rate(2004)

Southern ACC Front to the northeast of South Georgia: Pathways, characteristics, and fluxes(2003)

An operational, real-time cloud detection scheme for use in the Antarctic based on AVHRR data(2001)

Observations of Cloud & Precipitation Particles on the Avery Plateau, Antarctic Peninsula(2001)

Discovery of a recurrent lava lake on Saunders Island (South Sandwich Islands) using AVHRR imagery(2001)