The Scientific Advisory Panel’s role is to advise on the scientific program of ACEAS, including in identifying opportunities, threats and opportunities; making links with researchers and fieldwork programs overseas; and promoting the work of ACEAS to colleagues.
Nathan Bindoff
UTas
Nathan is one of the world’s leading climate scientists. As an expert in physical oceanography, he looks at how and why Earth has changed and what that means for the future.
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Catherine Ritz
University Joseph Fourier
Catherine Ritz is a climatologist and geographer known especially for her contributions to climate change research. She is a Senior Researcher for France's National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) at the Laboratoire de Glaciologie et Geophysique de l’Environnement, and also is affiliated with the Université Grenoble Alpes
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Philip O'Brien
Macquarie University
Phil joined the Bureau of Mineral Resources (now Geoscience Australia) from the University of Melbourne in 1980. He worked on various sedimentary basins in Australia before starting work in Antarctica in 1992. His primary research interests are in how sedimentary processes affect paleoclimate records in landforms and sediments. In addition to this, he has worked on using sea floor geology to understand the distribution of benthic ecosystems.
He retired from Geoscience Australia in 2011 and has been an Honorary Adjunct Fellow at Macquarie University Department of Environmental Sciences since then.
He has authored 120 scientific publications and multiple reports to government and to the Antarctic Treaty.
Martin Siegert
Imperial College London
Prof. Martin Siegert FRSE has been the Co-Director of the Grantham Institute at Imperial College Londin since May 2014.
He led the Lake Ellsworth Consortium - a UK-NERC funded programme that designed an experiment to explore a large subglacial lake beneath the ice of West Antarctica. He has undertaken three Antarctic field seasons, using geophysics to measure the subglacial landscape and to understand what it tells us about past changes in Antarctica and elsewhere.
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Eileen Hofmann
Old Dominion University
Dr. Hofmann is recognized for her work on coupled physical-biological models. Her research interests are in the areas of physical-biological interactions in marine ecosystems, environmental control and transmission of marine diseases, descriptive physical oceanography, and mathematical modeling of marine ecosystems. She has worked in a variety of marine environments, most recently the continental shelf region of the Ross Sea and the western Antarctic Peninsula, Chesapeake Bay and Delaware Bay, and the Middle Atlantic Bight off the east coast of the United States. Her contributions to modeling physical-biological interactions in marine systems were recognized by her election as a 2013 Fellow of the American Geophysical Union.
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Amy Leventer
Colgate University
Amy Leventer is a micropaleontologist, who specializes in paleoclimatic reconstructions of the Antarctic, and modern geologic and biologic processes in the southern ocean. Her teaching specialties include oceanography, paleoclimatology, and environmental studies.
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