Paul Rose
Paul’s credits as a BBC TV Presenter include 'Voyages of Discovery', 'Meltdown', 'Take One Museum' and 'Scrapheap Challenge' as well as his new 'Oceans' series. 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 also leads Greenland Icecap crossing expeditions, polar science support logistics & mountaineering expeditions. Paul was Vice President and Chair of the Expeditions & Fieldwork Division at the Royal Geographical Society between 1999 and 2002. Last year he was awarded the Royal Geographical Society’s Ness Award – “For the popularisation of Geography and the wider understanding of our world”.
