The Team 

International collaboration and world-class expertise

The COMICS project will be led by the National Oceanography Centre and is a collaboration between the British Antarctic Survey and the universities of Queen Mary London, Liverpool, Oxford and Southampton. The project has received funding from the Natural Environmental Research Council and will run between April 2017 and 2022.


Principal Investigators

Prof. Richard Sanders
National Oceanography Centre and NORCE Norwegian Research Centre
Principal investigator

Prof. Stephanie Henson
National Oceanography Centre
Principal investigator

Dr Sarah Giering
National Oceanography Centre
Principal investigator

Work Package Leaders

Richard Lampitt
National Oceanography Centre
Work Package 1 Leader

Alex Poulton
Heriot Watt University
Work Package 2 Leader

Dan Mayor
National Oceanography Centre
Work Package 3 Leader

Geraint Tarling
British Antarctic Survey
Work Package 4 Leader

Tom Anderson
National Oceanography Centre
Work Package 6 Leader

Adrian Martin
National Oceanography Centre
Work Package 7 Leader

Andrew Yool
National Oceanography Centre
Work Package 8 Leader