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National and International Roles of Staff
Members of the Institute are active in many roles relating to national and international committees and advisory groups involving the polar regions. These include:
- UK Delegate to the Council of the International Arctic Science Committee (IASC)
- President, International Glaciological Society
- Chair of the UK National Committee on Antarctic Research
- UK Alternate Delegate to the Council of the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
- President, International Commission on Snow and Ice (ICSI)
- Head of the Glaciers and Ice Sheets Division of the International Commission for Snow and Ice (ICSI)
- Chair of the NERC Review Committee for the Challenger Division of Southampton Oceanography Centre
- Chair of Steering Committee for NERC British Ocean Sediment Core Repository (BOSCOR) facility
- Member of NERC Research Ship Unit Advisory Panel
- Steering Committee member of the European Science Foundation (ESF) programme on the Quaternary of the Eurasian North (QUEEN).
- Member of Hadley Centre Scientific Steering Group
- Trustee of the Kapitza Trust
- President of International Association for the Physical Sciences of the Ocean commission on Sea Ice
- Member of NASA Sea Ice Algorithm Working Group
- Member of UK Committees for World Ocean Circulation Experiment and Global Ocean Observing System
- Secretary and Treasurer of Polar Libraries Colloquy
- UK representative on the International Arctic Science Committee (IASC) working group on Arctic Glaciers.