DR NANCY BERTLER CHAIR OF AC21

01.08.2011

Dr Nancy Bertler from Victoria University of Wellington and GNS Science has been actively involved in the SCAR programme Antarctica and the Global Climate System (AGCS).  At an AGCS meeting in Melbourne a new initiative called AntarcticClimate21 (AC21) was introduced and Dr Bertler has been asked to be chair. AC21 is a significant international research programme that coordinates a number of different individual international science projects. Antarctica New Zealand congratulates Dr Bertler and it is a credit to her standing as a scientist and her abilities in managing complex multidisciplinary research programmes.