Antarctic Whaling

John Sheail

John Sheail is an historical geographer, and, prior to retirement, an environmental historian with the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (Natural Environment Research Council) and External Professor of Geography at Loughborough University. His publications include a dozen books and over 200 research papers.

Paul Rodhouse

Paul Rodhouse is a marine biologist with a background in marine living resources, fisheries oceanography and ecology.  After receiving his PhD, he worked at the Shellfish Research Laboratory, University College Galway, then in the Ecology and Evolution Department at Stony Brook University, New York. The rest of his career was spent at the British Antarctic Survey, where he is now an emeritus fellow.

John Dudeney

John Dudeney has over 56 years of Antarctic experience, first a physical scientist and administrator at the British Antarctic Survey, retiring as Deputy Director in 2006, then as a researcher in Antarctic political history and a lecturer on Antarctic tour ships. He has travelled many times to Antarctica including two consecutive winters in the late 1960s. John has around 100 publications and was honored to receive the Polar Medal in 1976, a second clasp in 1995 and an OBE in 2004.