The Management Committee’s role is to advise and assist the Director to oversee and review the delivery of programs of research, and other activities of the Centre, that are aligned with its strategies, vision, and key performance indicators.
Jo Whittaker
Director of ACEAS
About Jo:
Jo is Director of the Australian Centre for Excellence in Antarctic Science, an ARC Future Fellow, and a Professor at the Institute for Marine and Antarctic Science based at the University of Tasmania. Jo's research interests are predominantly in plate tectonics, marine geophysics and geodynamics.
Paul Tregoning
ANU
About Paul:
Paul uses space-geodetic observations to study changes in the Earth caused by geophysical processes such as tectonic deformation, tidal deformation, and climate-driven variations in sea level and polar ice caps.
Matt England
UNSW
About Matt:
Matt’s research seeks to understand large-scale ocean circulation and its influence on regional and global climate—from the tropics to Antarctica—on timescales of seasons to millennia.
Zanna Chase
UTas
About Zanna:
Zanna’s research focus is the interaction of chemical cycles and biological activity in the oceans. She looks at how these are affected by climate and the role of the Southern Ocean in long term climate change.
Anya Reading
About Anya:
Anya employs innovative approaches in data science to build on a foundation of experimental field seismology in challenging regions such as Antarctica. Her interdisciplinary research focuses on interactions between the deep Earth and ice sheets.
Nicole Hill
About Nicole:
Nicole’s expertise spans a range of applied marine ecology topics. She focuses on understanding, quantifying and mapping biodiversity to support decision-making in the marine environment, including the Antarctic.
Duanne White
About Duanne:
Duanne is interested in the links between landscape, climate and critters, and how these have changed during the past 2 million years. He also generates records of past ice sheet changes to inform ice sheet model development and projections of future sea level rise.
Andrea Ellston
Business Manager
About Andrea:
Andrea supports the Director and Research Program Leaders to manage ACEAS and position the centre to achieve its strategic objectives.
She provides:
- Executive business management, policy assistance and advice;
- Management of the Centre’s budget;
- Reporting on the Centre’s activities and compliance with contractual arrangements;
- Assistance on developing project governance and monitoring arrangements with all project collaborators, the Advisory Board and the Australian Research Council;
- Coordination of the activities of the Centre, including its strategic plans and business plans;
- Engagement with stakeholders and end-users in government and industry.
Grace Moss
Communications and Stakeholder Advisor
About Grace:
Grace is the Communications and Stakeholder Engagement Advisor at ACEAS. She leads ACEAS’s communications program and drives stakeholder engagement initiatives to connect decision-makers, public policy practitioners, and end users with ACEAS’s research across government and industry.
Claire Yung
ECR Representative
About Claire:
Claire is a PhD student at the Australian National University interested in the physics of the ocean near Antarctica and in the Southern Ocean. She completed a Bachelor of Philosophy at the ANU in 2021, where her Honours project investigated topographic hotspots of upwelling in the Southern Ocean and their physical mechanisms. She has also spent time at the University of Sydney researching eddy contributions to global ocean heat transport. In her PhD, she is studying ice-ocean interactions near Antarctica and their implementation in ocean models.