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SCAR Executive Officer
Dr Mike Sparrow has a PhD in Physical (Southern Ocean) Oceanography, a Masters degree in Atmospheric Sciences and a Bachelors in Physics.
Previous to moving to the SCAR Secretariat in 2007, Mike was based at the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, working for the Climate Variability and Predictability (CLIVAR) project of the World Climate Research Programme, where he has been responsible for coordinating CLIVAR's interests in the Southern Ocean and Antarctic region as well as in Africa. He has also worked in Spain and China and taken part in four cruises to the Antarctic, including two as co-chief scientist.
He has published over twenty scientific papers ranging on subjects as diverse as the flow of Antarctic Bottom Water around Antarctica to the study of regional climate change in China, and given media interviews to e.g. Sky News and the Chinese Broadcasting Corporation.
His interests include Capoeira, writing historical fiction and surviving his two sons.
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