Chris West

Chris West trained as an engineer and then as a zoologist. He has undertaken research on gorillas in Rwanda foxes in Britain and soil animals on South Georgia. He then worked on breeding endangered species at Jersey and Bristol Zoos- before moving to administration of environmental science. He is now Director of the UK Climate Impacts Programme which works at the boundary between research and society on impacts of climate change and on adapting to those impacts. He is interested in medieval siege machinery and the history of icebreakers; he is an inexpert birdwatcher and is fond of wasps.