British Antarctic Survey
Honorary Secretary
2022-present
Prof Kate Hendry is a chemical oceanographer and marine biogeochemist in the Polar Oceans Team of the British Antarctic Survey, a bye-fellow at Queens’ College Cambridge, and an honorary professor at the Universities of Bristol and East Anglia. Her research interests surround the impact on marine nutrient cycling of climate change in the polar regions.
Kate carried out her DPhil at Oxford University, and was awarded a postdoctoral scholarship to work at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute in the USA. She returned to the UK initially as a research lecturer at Cardiff University, then as a Royal Society University Research Fellow at the University of Bristol, before moving to BAS in 2022. Kate has participated or led fourteen coastal or sea-going expeditions (mostly to the polar regions). She led the European Research Council funded project, ICY-LAB, investigating nutrient cycling in glaciated margins off Southwest Greenland, and now leads the NERC Pushing the Frontiers grant, SiCLING and co-leads work packages for PRESCIENT, BIOPOLE and POLOMINTS. She was a member of the Changing Arctic Ocean program, as part of the Changing Arctic Ocean Seafloor project (ChAOS). She won the Geological Society of London Bigsby Medal in 2025 for services to geosciences, the EAG Houtermans medal in 2016, and a Challenger Society fellowship in 2012.
Kate is Chair of Antarctic Science Ltd, which runs the journal Antarctic Science, and the Antarctic Science International Bursary Scheme. She is vice chair of the UK Arctic and Antarctic Partnership, and is the geosciences representative for the UK National Committee for Antarctic Research (UKNCAR). She also established the Challenger Society for Marine Science Equity, Diversity, Inclusivity and Accessibility working group, and is a member of the Diversity in UK Polar Science Initiative committee.
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