David Walton (ecologist)


David W. H. Walton (1945 (1945)[1] – (2019-02-12)12 February 2019[2]) was a British emeritus professor with the British Antarctic Survey. Walton trained as an ecologist and was a specialist in the Antarctic. He was the first chair of the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) Standing Committee on the Antarctic Treaty System and held this position from 2002 to 2006.[2] He was the Chief Scientist on the Antarctic Circumpolar Expedition (ACE)[3] which took place from December 2016 to March 2017 aboard the Russian research vessel Akademik Treshnikov.[4]

David Walton
David Walton in 2016
Died12 February 2019
NationalityBritish
Alma materBSc Edinburgh
PhD University of Birmingham
Scientific career
FieldsTerrestrial Biology
InstitutionsBritish Antarctic Survey

Awards and honours

2006 SCAR Medal for International Scientific Coordination.[2][5][6][7][8]

Selected publications
  • Antarctic Science. (founding and Chief editor, 1987-2019).[2]
  • Politics in a Cold Climate: Antarctic Science and Governance. Cambridge University Press. (With John Dudeney)
  • Antarctica: Global Science from a Frozen Continent. Cambridge University Press, 2013. (Editor) ISBN 978-1107003927

References
  1. "IPNI Author Details". www.ipni.org. Retrieved 13 February 2019.
  2. Nash, Rosemary. "Antarctica loses one of its greatest champions". SCAR. Retrieved 13 February 2019.
  3. "Professor David Walton - News - British Antarctic Survey". Retrieved 18 February 2019.
  4. "ACE Expedition – A better understanding of Antarctica". spi-ace-expedition.ch. Retrieved 18 February 2019.
  5. "Professor David Walton | Alumni". Alumni.cam.ac.uk. Retrieved 2 May 2017.
  6. https://www.bas.ac.uk/profile/dwhw/
  7. "David Walton - SCAR Antarctic Humanities & Social Sciences EGSCAR Antarctic Humanities & Social Sciences EG". Antarctica-hasseg.com. Retrieved 2 May 2017.
  8. "Main title". Atsummit50.org. Retrieved 2 May 2017.



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