Bernard Stonehouse
Dr Bernard Stonehouse was a British scientist who specialised in polar research and popular science.
Stonehouse was born in Hull onMay 1926. He attended Hull Grammar School before joining the Royal Navy in 1944, and was seconded as a naval pilot to the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey from 19461950. After returning to Britain in 1950, Stonehouse studied zoology and geology at University College, London, and then earned his D.Phil. from Edward Grey Institute of Field Ornithology and Merton College, Oxford, which involved spendingmonths studying emperor penguins on South Georgia. He led the British Ornithologists Unions centenary expedition to Ascension Island between 1957 and 1959. From 1960 to 1968, Stonehouse worked at the University of Canterbury and later appointments saw him working at the University of British Columbia, the University of Bradford, and, as editor of the Polar Record, at the Scott Polar Research Institute . He retired as editor in 1992 but continued as a senior associate, forming the Institutes Polar Ecology and Management Group, and promoting Antarcti
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