IAMAS Member at Large, 2023–2027
IAMAS President, 2015–2019
IAMAS Vice President, 2011–2015
IAMAS Deputy Secretary-General, 2003–2007
IAMAS Deputy Secretary-General, 2007–2011
ICPM President, 1999–2003
ICPM President, 1995–1999

John Turner is a researcher at the British Antarctic Survey in Cambridge, UK where he leads a project investigating the climate of the Antarctic. He has a BSc in Meteorology/Physics and a PhD in Antarctic Climate Variability. From 1974 to 1986 he was employed by the UK Meteorological Office where he was in involved in the development of numerical weather prediction models and satellite meteorology. Since 1986 he has been at BAS working on high latitude precipitation, polar lows, teleconnections between the Antarctic and lower latitudes and weather forecasting in the Antarctic.

From 1995 to 2003 he was the President of the International Commission on Polar Meteorology. From 2003 to 2011 he served as IAMAS Deputy Secretary-General and from 2011 to 2015 as IAMAS Vice-President. Currently he chairs the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) Expert Group on Climate. He is co-author of King and Turner (1997) Antarctic Meteorology and Climatology and co-editor of Rasmussen and Turner (2003) Polar Lows: Mesoscale Weather Systems in the Polar Regions.

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