Paul Rose
Paul’s credits as a BBC TV Presenter include Oceans and Britain's Secret Seas as well as Voyages of Discovery, Meltdown, Take One Museum and Scrapheap Challenge. He is also a very experienced and popular public speaker, field logistics expert, polar guide, professional diver and instructor, mountaineer and yacht skipper. He was the Base Commander of Rothera Research Station, Antarctica, for British Antarctic Survey for 10 years and was awarded HM The Queen's Polar Medal. For his work with NASA and the Mars Lander project on Mt Erebus, Antarctica, he was awarded the US Navy Polar Medal. His professional diving work includes science support diving in Antarctica and the Indian Ocean, and he ran the US Navy diver training programme at Great Lakes Naval training Centre. Paul has also led Greenland Icecap crossings and mountaineering expeditions and provided logistical support for polar research. Paul is Vice President of the Royal Geographical Society and Chair of its Expeditions and Fieldwork Committee. In 2007 he was awarded the Royal Geographical Society’s Ness Award – “For the popularisation of Geography and the wider understanding of our world”.
