Peter Kirsch
Data Manager
Information Services team, UK Polar Data Centre team
University of British Antarctic Survey
United Kingdom
Biography
2004-Present : Senior Data and Science Information Manager. I oversee the electronic management of scientific data and information within the Polar Data Centre. Assisted by a small team of individuals both in Cambridge and Antarctica. 2000-2004 : British Antarctic Survey. Data analyst and programmer on EU funded ultraviolet radiation measurement projects. 1996-2000 : University of Manchester, Institute of Science and Technology. European Commission contract to develop a web-based data centre for ultraviolet spectral measurements. 1991-1996 : University of Reading, Dept. of Meteorology. Participant in a series of European Commission research projects investigating a range of ultraviolet spectroradiometers and techniques. Developed software to evaluate the operational efficacy of these systems. 1987-1990 : British Antarctic Survey. 33 month Wintering contract in the Antarctic. Responsible for ozone and meteorological measurements and the maintenance of associated equipment.
Research Interest
Rad-Sat Low Power Magnetometer (LPM) Network Electron Acceleration in the Radiation Belts of Earth, Jupiter & Saturn A High-Order Model of the Earth’s External and Induced Magnetic Field ICE-ARC iSTAR – Stability of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet
Publications
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Park, J., Min, K.W., Summers, D., Hwang, J., Kim, H.J., Horne, Richard B., Kirsch, Peter, Yumoto, K., Uozumi, T., Lühr, H., Green, J.. (2010) Non-stormtime injection of energetic particles into the slot-region between Earth’s inner and outer electron radiation belts as observed by STSAT-1 and NOAA-POES. Geophysical Research Letters, 37. 5 pp. 10.1029/2010GL043989
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Callaghan, Sarah, Donegan, Steve, Pepler, Sam, Thorley, Mark, Cunningham, Nathan, Kirsch, Peter, Ault, Linda, Bell, Patrick, Bowie, Rod, Leadbetter, Adam, Lowry, Roy, Moncoiffe, Gwen, Harrison, Kate, Smith-Haddon, Ben, Weatherby, Anita, Wright, Dan. (2012) Making data a first class scientific output : data citation and publication by NERC’s Environmental Data Centres. International Journal of Digital Curation, 7. 107-113. 10.2218/ijdc.v7i1.218
