30 September 2016:
Following a competitive hiring process with various highly qualified candidates, the International Arctic Science Committee (IASC) is happy to announce that Dr. Allen Pope will be IASC´s new Executive Secretary as of 01 January 2017.
Before coming to IASC, Dr. Allen Pope held positions as a research scientist at the National Snow and Ice Data Center (University of Colorado Boulder) and the Polar Science Center (University of Washington) where he researched remote sensing of glaciers. He also was a visiting scientist at Dartmouth College where he taught a course on Polar remote sensing. Allen holds a Ph.D. and a M.Phil. in Polar Studies from Cambridge University where he worked on multispectral remote sensing of Arctic glaciers and conducted glaciological fieldwork in Antarctica, Iceland, Svalbard, Sweden, Alaska, Canada, and Nepal. He has worked extensively with a range of international scientific organizations, including as a council member of the American Geophysical Union and president of the Association of Polar Early Career Scientists. You can find out more about Allen and his research at https://about.me/allenpope. He also enjoys sharing and discussing polar science with the public and tweets @PopePolar.
Dr. Pope has also worked with SCAR in a number of ways over the past few years and we look forward to working with him and IASC in his new capacity.
SCAR would also like to take this opportunity to thank the outgoing IASC Executive Secretary, Dr. Volker Rachold, for his many years of service to IASC and the Arctic Research Community. Under Volker’s leadership we continued to develop a great working relationship between SCAR and IASC and accomplished much together. Volker helped to spur many of the International Polar Year activities together with SCAR and we wish him well in his new endeavors.