Professor JANE FRANCIS

at BAS

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Director, British Antarctic Survey

Professor Jane Francis took up the post of Director of the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) in October 2013. A geologist by training, she previously worked as Professor of Palaeoclimatology at the University of Leeds where she was Dean of the Faculty of Environment.

She has research interests in ancient climates, particularly of the polar regions, and has undertaken numerous scientific expeditions to the Arctic and Antarctic, working in collaboration with research teams from many other countries. In 2002 she was awarded the Polar Medal in recognition of her contribution to British Polar Science.

Dr Arabinda Mitra

Office of the Principal Scientific Adviser to the Government of India

  • 11 June 2020, 9:30am

    CSaP Annual Conference Seminar Series 2020

    This year instead of holding a one-day annual conference in London, we will be delivering a series of virtual seminars in May and June on topics that CSaP and our network have worked on over the past year

  • 14 November 2017, 5:30pm

    Can you handle the truth? Facts, figures and communicating uncertainty

    Chaired and hosted by Sir David Spiegelhalter, Winton Professor of the Public Understanding of Risk in the Statistical Laboratory at the University of Cambridge, guest speakers include: Sir David Norgrove, Chair of the UK Statistics Authority; and Amanda Farnsworth, Head of Visual and Data Journalism, BBC News.

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