PEI Council 2020-21
The Council represents PEI members who step forward to volunteer their time and talents in a leadership role for a limited period of time. Council members are active leaders representing PEI in many ways, such as at international conferences and meetings, and are recognized as experts by senior leaders in many fields. Read More
Gisele M. Arruda - UK
PhD, Professor in Circumpolar Studies in the field of Energy, Arctic, Climate Change, Environment and Society. Read More
Inga Beck - Germany
Inga studied physical Geography at the University of Munich and did her PhD about permafrost in Northern Quebec, Canada. Read More
Sarah Bouckoms - New Zealand
I have a background in Physics working with the Ice Cube Neutrino Detector. Read More
Maria Pia Casarini - Italy
Maria has two degrees from Milan Cattolica University (Modern Languages and Italian Letters); M.Phil. in Polar Studies, Cambridge University, UK. Read More
Matteo Cattadori - Italy
I started to work in the polar education field in 2005. After that I made and followed several projects Read More
Julia Dooley - USA
Julia’s polar experience began as an ARISE Educator with ANDRILL in 2007 on the Southern McMurdo Sound project and on the Mackay Sea Valley Seismic Survey Team. Read More
Silvia Dotta - Brazil
Sílvia Dotta is a professor at Federal University of ABC, Santo André, SP, Brazil. With a Ph.D. in Education, she coordinates Read More
Susy Ellison - USA
Susy Ellison has been teaching about our planet, in one form or another, for over 30 years as both classroom teacher and environmental educator. Read More
Waldemar Fontes - Uruguay
Waldemar Fontes has been working in Antarctic related fields since 1999. He was the Commander of the Uruguayan Scientific Base Artigas Read More
Kolbrún Hjaltadóttir - Iceland
Kolbrún Svala Hjaltadóttir is a teacher with a master's degree in open education with an emphasis on computer and information technology. Read More
Barbara Olga Horyn
Barbara is a certified Arctic Nature Guide from University of Svalbard, currently doing PhD research on tourist safety in polar regions at the University of Iceland. Read More
Christian Alan Houghton - Argentina
Christian is a Professor in Biological Sciences and haa a degree in Biology with a thesis about ecotoxicology and oxidative stress. Read More
Joanna Hubbard - USA
Joanna Hubbard is a middle school science teacher in Anchorage, Alaska, USA; she has taught both 7th and 8th grades at three different middle schools Read More
Louise Huffman - USA
Louise is currently Director of Education and Outreach for the US Ice Drilling Program at Dartmouth College, but works remotely much of the time from home in Florida. Read More
Shridhar Jawak - India
Shridhar D. Jawak is currently working as a "Project Scientist B" at the Polar Remote Sensing Division of Earth System Science Organization (ESSO) ─ National Centre for Antarctic and Ocean Research (NCAOR), India. Read More
Rainer Lehmann - Germany
During his studies at the Universities of Heidelberg (Germany) and Basel (Switzerland) Rainer investigated glacial and periglacial geomorphology Read More
Tim Martin - USA
Currently Tim lives in central North Carolina USA, regardless of where I've lived, he’s always felt most at home out in the natural world. Read More
David Martinez - USA
David recently completed his Masters in Biodiversity, Evolution, & Conservation and previously worked as the Community Outreach Supervisor Read More
Neelu Singh -India
Ms. Neelu Singh has more than 7 years of working experience in the field of environmental chemistry. Read More
Alfredo Soto Ortega - Chile
I am the Deputy Director and Coordinator of connectedness to the Performance Agreement GAIA - Antarctic and Antarctic Advisory Outreach Read More
Anthony Speca -UK
Anthony Speca is Managing Principal of Polar Aspect, a consultancy he founded in 2012. He has advised government particularly on issues of Arctic governance, fiscal policy and economic policy. Read More
Valeria Tacca - Italy
Valeria comes from Italy and is a math-science teacher in a Middle school. She loves polar regions and is interested in Climate Change. She likes traveling and taking photographs and learning about our wonderful planet.
Ramcharan Vijayaraghavan- India
Ram has been in the field of education for the last 16 years leading content development, teaching and training as well as Read More
Sophie Weeks - UK
Sophie Weeks is a science communicator based in Cambridge, UK. Having originally trained in both science and art she enjoyed a 20-year career in Museum and Gallery Education working for the British Library. Read More
Betsy Wilkening - USA
Betsy is an education coordinator for Arizona Project WET at the University of Arizona in Tucson. She works with teachers to build community resilience Read More