Adrian Fox

Biography

"I joined BAS in 1990 and became Head of the Mapping and Geographic Information Centre (MAGIC) in 2003. My main role is overall leadership of the MAGIC group, but I am a specialist in aerial photography, GPS survey and photogrammetry for both topographic mapping and scientific measurement. I have led 16 aerial photography and survey campaigns in Antarctica, South Georgia and Svalbard and been involved with production of a large number of topographic maps of the polar regions. I am Secretary of the UK Antarctic Place-names Committee, co-Chief Officer of the SCAR Standing Committee on Geographic Information and serve on the editorial board of The Photogrammetric Record. 1987: MA (Hons), Geography, Edinburgh 1989: MSc, Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, Aberdeen 2004: MRICS, Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, Geomatics Division. 2007: PhD, Remote Sensing/Glaciology, Darwin College, Cambridge"

Research Interest

My main research interest is using aerial photography and photogrammetry for measuring environmental change from time-series images and wildlife census. I am currently PI on a NERC Standard grant ‘The spatial and temporal distribution of 20th Century Antarctic Peninsula glacier mass change and its drivers’ (NE/K004867/1), with colleagues at the universities of Newcastle and Gloucestershire. This unlocks historical aerial photography by relating it to modern GPS-supported aerial photography and recent high-resolution satellite imagery to measure glacier change over the last 60 years.