Jeremy Smith

Jeremy Smith was born and educated in Britain. After obtaining an MA in Natural Sciences at Cambridge and a Diploma in Education in Singapore, he moved to Australia where he completed in 1974 a PhD on New Guinea high altitude flora at ANU, Canberra. Moving to Armidale NSW (where he still resides), he lectured in Geography at UNE before serving as Station Leader of Australian Antarctic Stations in 1996 and from 2000 to 2010.

Recent articles by Jeremy Smith

“Truly the stuff of nightmares”: unprecedented low in Antarctic sea ice recorded

“Truly the stuff of nightmares”: unprecedented low in Antarctic sea ice recorded

Each winter the surface of the sea freezes around Antarctica, over a vast area, mostly to a depth of about one metre. But this is starting to change. Last year, the sea ice reached an unprecedentedly low maximum extent of only 17 million square kilometres.

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