The Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr Ryan Fogt as Antarctic Environments Portal Editor.
Dr. Ryan Fogt is a Professor of Meteorology in the Department of Geography at Ohio University, in Athens, Ohio, USA. His recent research examines the Antarctic pressure and sea ice variability from the early 20th century to present using observations and statistical reconstructions. When he was a graduate student at the Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center, Ryan was able to deploy to Antarctica three times to work on improving a weather forecasting model used in the U.S. Antarctic Program and adapted to the Antarctic environment, by interacting with forecasters on-site at the U.S. base McMurdo, as well as a special visit to the Amundsen-Scott South Pole station.
Ryan previously served as the Antarctic chapter editor for the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society’s State of the Climate report from 2008-2015. This experience, along with a decade and a half of teaching and working with undergraduate and graduate student researchers at Ohio University, has helped him grow to be an effective communicator of the complex climate of Antarctica to a wide and diverse audience. Ryan is also a steering committee member to SCAR’s Scientific Research Programme AntClimNow, and serves as their membership coordinator.
Reflecting on his new role, Ryan states,
