Alan is life member of Friends of Scott Polar Research Institute (FoSPRI) and a Chartered Surveyor with a personal interest in polar matters both Arctic and Antarctic, having followed the impact and journeys of his Grandfather Sir James Wordie, Shackleton's Chief Scientific Officer on Endurance and leader of subsequent Cambridge University expeditions into the Arctic.
His interest and research spans a period from The Heroic Age to the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition 1955 – 1958 and subsequent forming of British Antarctic Survey (BAS).
After joining the FoSPRI "Descendants of the Endurance crew" trip on Sergei Vavilov to Antarctica in early summer November 2014, Alan enjoys giving informed lectures on the Endurance expedition ITAE 1914 – 1917 and especially in alerting young audiences to the importance of ice and the impacts of global warming and ozone layer depletion.
He is looking forward to February 2024 and joining the FoSPRI trip on Seaventure comparing early and late summer activity of ice, air and sea, as well as exploring the peninsula within the Antarctic Circle.
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