Erskine Fellow at Gateway Antarctica
Andrew Clarke is a visiting Erskine Fellow based at Gateway Antarctic until the end of December 2009. Andrew Clarke has recently retired from the British Antarctic Survey, where he worked on the ecology and evolution of polar faunas and undertook over 20 periods of fieldwork in Antarctica and Svalbard. He was Head of Biological Sciences for a decade before returning to full-time science in 2000, and has honorary chairs at the Universities of St Andrews and East Anglia. Particular interests are evolutionary adaptation to low temperature, the role of short-term environmental variability in marine ecology, and the influence of climatic and tectonic changes in determining global patterns of biological diversity. He is presently working on the Cenozoic evolution of the Antarctic marine fauna, and the nearshore ecology of Antarctic marine benthos, and writing a book on thermal ecology.