David Walton (ecologist)

David W. H. Walton was a British emeritus professor with the British Antarctic Survey. Walton trained as an ecologist and was a specialist in the Antarctic. He was the first chair of the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research Standing Committee on the Antarctic Treaty System and held this position from 2002 to 2006. He was the Chief Scientist on the Antarctic Circumpolar Expedition which took place from December 2016 to March 2017 aboard the Russian research vessel Akademik Treshnikov.

Awards and honours

2006 SCAR Medal for International Scientific Coordination.

Selected publications

Antarctic Science..
Politics in a Cold Climate: Antarctic Science and Governance. Cambridge University Press.
Antarctica: Global Science from a Frozen Continent. Cambridge University Press, 2013.