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NERC - British Antarctic Survey
The British Antarctic Survey (BAS) is a component of the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC). Based in Cambridge, United Kingdom, it has, for almost 60 years, undertaken the majority of Britain's scientific research on and around the Antarctic continent. It now shares that continent with scientists from over thirty countries. It has a significant interest in life at polar extremes and has a major commitment to biodiversity and environmental genomics as well as physiological adaptation of microbes, animals and plants. Its small medical unit researches human responses to the extreme polar environment.
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Dr Cynan Ellis Evans is the coordinator of the CAREX project. He is currently Head of Science Coordination Programme Office at BAS and half time seconded as Senior Advisor/Deputy Director of the international programme office of the International Polar Year 2007-2008. He has 30 years polar research experience with an extensive publication list in various international journals (including Nature and Science) and books and co-authored “High Latitude Limnology” (1987). He has led research groups in the Arctic and Antarctic regions, to study microbial life in extreme polar environments, and their application as astrobiological analogues. He has supervised 16 PhD and Masters degrees and has been external examiner to several universities. Dr Ellis-Evans is a founder member of the Subglacial Antarctic Lakes Exploration consortium (SALE) and has been a member of a number of national and international committees concerned with microbial and biogeochemical research. He is a regular reviewer for various international journals and funding agencies in UK, USA, New Zealand, Australia, and various European countries. He is currently involved as a task leader in the FP6 EuroPolar ERA-NET project and is the Chair of the General Assembly of the FP6 Network of Excellence, Eur-Oceans. He has organised a large number of international workshops and conferences over the past two decades and currently coordinates the international conference planning activities for IPY 2007-2008.