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SUMMARY:An astronomer in Antarctica - Dr Jon Shanklin\, British Antarctic 
 Survey
DTSTART:20130122T200000Z
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CONTACT:Peter Hatfield
DESCRIPTION:Jonathan Shanklin joined the British Antarctic Survey in Cambr
 idge in 1976\, after graduating from Cambridge University with a BA in Nat
 ural Sciences and a PGCE in teaching physics.  He retired at the end of Ma
 rch 2012 as head of its Meteorology and Ozone Monitoring Unit and is now a
 n emeritus fellow at BAS.  During his time with BAS he made 19 visits to t
 he Antarctic\, either to install new equipment\, calibrate existing equipm
 ent or to make tours of inspection.  He was an author of the paper that an
 nounced the discovery of what is now known as the Antarctic ozone hole\, a
 nd the team were jointly awarded the Institute of Physics Charles Chree me
 dal in 2000.  He was invested with the Polar Medal by Her Majesty in 2005.
   He was a chair of the WMO Group on Antarctic Meteorology.  At BAS and it
 s parent organisation the NERC\, he was the Trades Union vice-chair for He
 alth & Safety.\n\nHis other interests are wide ranging: for sports he play
 s cricket in the summer and ice hockey in the winter\, the latter albeit o
 nly occasionally these days.  He is tower captain at St Benet's church in 
 Cambridge\, which involves leading the bell-ringers in the English style o
 f bell-ringing.  He is a Council Member of the Botanical Society of Britai
 n & Ireland and as well as botany has a particular interest in liverworts.
   He is a vice-president of the Cambridge Natural History Society.  He is 
 Director of the Comet Section of the two leading national UK amateur astro
 nomical societies.
LOCATION:Wolfson Lecture Theatre\, Department of Chemistry
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