Dr Alan Hemmings
Position
Adjunct Associate Professor
Qualifications
BSc (Hons) (Cov.); PhD (Aukl.)
Contact Details
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Phone: (+61) (2) 6284 4523
Fax: (+61) (2) 6284 4523
Internal Phone: N/A
Email: ahe30184@bigpond.net.au
Postal address:
Dr Alan D. Hemmings
PO Box 5225
Garran
ACT 2605
Australia
For further information please see Dr Hemmings UC SPARK page
Background
Dr Alan D. Hemmings is a specialist on Antarctic governance and environmental management. An independent Consultant, he is an Associate Professor at Gateway Antarctica and Research Associate at the University of Tasmania’s Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies. He lives in Canberra, but comes to the University of Canterbury regularly for research and teaching purposes. Hemmings did two winters in Antarctica with the British Antarctic Survey, and has also been to Antarctica with the French and New Zealand National Antarctic programmes, Greenpeace and as New Zealand Government Representative on a tourist voyage to the Ross Sea. He is a former Chair of IUCN’s Antarctic Advisory Committee and Senior Adviser to the Antarctic and Southern Ocean Coalition (ASOC). Hemmings has participated in the annual Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meetings, meetings of experts groups on tourism, liability, and meetings of the Convention for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR) since 1989. In December 2009 he was a member of the New Zealand delegation to the Antarctic Treaty Meeting of Experts on the Management of Ship-borne Tourism in the Antarctic Treaty Area held in Wellington. Hemmings is a regular media commentator on Antarctic issues.
Teaching
ANTA103, ANTA601, ANTA602, ANTA604
Research Interests
Antarctic governance; Antarctic environmental management; Functioning of international environmental regimes; Globalization effects on Antarctica; Emerging technologies and Antarctica – including Bioprospecting and Nanotechnology; The role of non-state actors in Southern Ocean and Antarctic affairs; and Security issues in the Antarctic and Southern Ocean.
Current Research Projects
Antarctic Law and Policy Project – Ongoing University of Canterbury project with Michelle Rogan-Finnemore (formerly Gateway Antarctica, now COMNAP) and Karen Scott (School of Law).
Contemporary Threats and Challenges to Antarctic Security: Legal and Policy Perspectives - Project Co-convenor (with Donald R Rothwell at the ANU College of Law, and Karen Scott in the School of Law at Canterbury) involving academics from Australia, New Zealand, India, USA and UK, directed to publication of a volume with the working title Antarctic Security in the Twenty-First Century: Legal and Policy Perspectives by Routledge in late 2011.
Australia and the Antarctic Treaty System - Australian universities project led from University of Tasmania and ANU, directed to publication of a volume to be published by New South Press in 2011.
Global Environmental Outlook (GEO) - Flagship United Nations Environment Program Project - a contributing/lead author in relation to the polar regions in the past three GEO Reports, with work towards GEO-5 (due 2012) just commencing. http://www.unep.org/geo/
Committees & Boards
Member - Antarctic Science Advisory Committee (ASAC) – Third three-year term appointment by Australian Minister for Environment Protection, Heritage and the Arts. http://www.aad.gov.au/default.asp?casid=33927
Editorial Board - The Polar Journal (commenced publication 2011 - Routledge) http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/journal.asp?issn=2154-896X&linktype=5
Member Steering Committee – Scientific Committee for Antarctic Research (SCAR) Social Science Action Group http://www.scar.org/researchgroups/via/.
Member Advisory Committee – Association of Polar Early Career Scientists (APECS). http://www.apecs.is/leadership/advisory-committee
Member Executive Board - Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society. http://www.forestandbird.org.nz/about-us/executive
Member - Canberra Panel of Antarctic Law and policy experts convened to provide independent strategic assessment of the options available to Australia, New Zealand and other likeminded states in relation to Japan’s Antarctic whaling programme. http://www.ifaw.org/ifaw_asia_pacific/media_center/press_releases/01_20_2009_51771.php
Publications
See UC Spark Page