Nancy Bertler

Under the umbrella of the Joint Antarctic Research Institute (JARI) I am jointly appointed by Victoria University of Wellington and GNS Science to lead the National Ice Core Research programme, to manage the National Ice Core Research Facility, and to lead Antarctic field deployments for our ice core research.

My roles and responsibilities are:
- Antarctic Science Platform Director (hosted by Antarctica New Zealand)
- Principal Scientist at GNS Science
- Roosevelt Island Climate Evolution (RICE) Chief Scientist
- New Zealand's Alternate Delegate to the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
- Steering Group Member of SCAR Research Programme AntClim21
- Field Leader for 13 Antarctic Field Deployments
- Principal Investigator for 'Did the West Antarctic Ice Sheet Collapse during the Last Interglacial Warm Period?'


Current research:

Antarctic Science Platform - The platform seeks to understand Antarctica’s impact on the global earth system, and how this might change in a +2°C (Paris Agreement) world. The platform is funded by MBIE with an investment of $49M and hosted by Antarctica New Zealand.

Roosevelt Island Climate Evolution (RICE) Project aims to improve our understanding on the stability of the Ross Ice Shelf and West Antarctic Ice Sheet in a warming world and implications for global sea-level change.

Antarctic Climate Change in the 21st Century - AntClim21 is one of six flagship research programmes hosted by SCAR (Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research). The focus of this programme is how the Antarctic / Southern Ocean environment will change over the 21st Century and beyond.

Antarctic Climate Archives - This objective contributes to the GNS Science led research programme Global Change through Time' and focuses on the analysis and interpretation of high resolution climate archives from Antarctica and the integration of these records with records from the Southern Ocean and New Zealand over the past ~100,000 years.

Our Rising Tide - This objective contributes to the GNS Science led research programme Global Change through Time' and focuses on previous warm periods, such as MIS 5e, to provide constraints for sea level rise contributions from Antarctica.

New Zealand ITASE - This long established programme focuses on the reconstruction of the Antarctic / Southern Ocean environment over the past 200 years to extend the observational record beyond the anthropogenic influence.

MARICE - this collaboration seeks to correlate well date, high resolution Antarctic ice cores and Southern Ocean marine sediment records to understand ice-ocean-atmosphere interactions.