Meet the National Council Member selected each year at the annual general meeting.All Councillors are volunteers and receive no remuneration apart from reimbursement of costs incurred in carrying out their duties.
| Station | Year | Season | Job |
|---|---|---|---|
| Macquarie Island | 1961 | Winter | Met Observer |
| Davis | 1963 | Winter | Met Observer in Charge |
As a Club member since 1974, and after wintering at Macquarie Island and Davis with BOM in the 1960s, David went on to work with the Bureau on their weather reporting computerisation, then administration at Victorian Universities, Registrar HSC body, Specialist Medical College, School Business Manager and Royal Society of Victoria. He has been elected to all Council Office Bearer positions over the recent 11-year period and has been actively involved in Station anniversaries, Club commemorative activities, Aurora packing, Philatelic sales and Antarctic historical and heritage research.
As a team player, David has continued to work tirelessly to reenergise the Club and ‘reach out’ to our wider Antarctic family, a policy which has seen a reversal of the Club’s declining membership. He holds BCom and MBus degrees and possesses the business skills and ANARE experience to further the Club’s partnership relationships with the Australian Antarctic Division, as well as the Club’s involvement as the custodian of the proud history and heritage of the service of the Club’s membership in Australian Antarctic Territory since 1947.
David has sought a second term as Club President to complete the policy and ‘reaching out’ initiatives which the Council team has so successfully launched during the past 12 months.
| Station | Year | Season | Job |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mawson | 1980 | Winter | Met Tech |
| Macquarie Island | 1985 | Winter | Met Tech |
| Casey | 1990 | Winter | Met Tech |
Kevin’s first winter was as Met Tech with ANARE at Mawson in 1980, Macquarie Island in 1985, then at Casey in 1990. Always enjoying the opportunity to extend his skills, working hands-on with other ANARE expeditioners, Kevin even defected and joined the ACS construction crew for an extended summer in 1990/91. During the 90s he returned south twice more on round trips for the Met Bureau, and again in 95/96 for a summer at Casey.
His 1979 ANARE training at Falls Creek snowballed into a lifelong passion for skiing. He is an IT Manager (Linux and Web Systems) with the Bureau of Meteorology. In earlier roles, he was the Bureau’s Computing Manager in Hobart. Prior to that Kevin was an electronics field technician and radar lab software developer. Home base has alternated between Hobart and Melbourne where he has now settled.
Having helped troubleshoot the ANARE Club website previously, in late 2023, Kevin stepped into the Webmaster role to continue the excellent work of his predecessors. Kevin is proud to belong to the ANARE Club and is committed to supporting the Club and its members, consolidating the solid foundations of past Club achievements, while helping shape the future of the ANARE Club in the spirit of its founders. He looks forward to his role as Vice President.
| Station | Year | Season | Job |
|---|---|---|---|
| Macquarie Island | 2012 | Winter | Station Doctor, librarian, postal agent, hydro attendant |
Melanie has been an ANARE Club member since travelling to Antarctica as part of the Centenary Voyage in early 2012 – the trip that literally changed her life. She was the station doctor on Macca later that year, and like so many, was hooked for life. The ship on which she sailed, the Aurora Australis, came to mean a lot to Melanie, and she set up the Aurora Australis Foundation in 2020 to help preserve the legacy of this remarkable ship. # Before becoming a doctor, Melanie was an archaeologist, and has always had an interest in heritage and in human stories from the past. When not obsessing about Antarctic ships and heritage, she is a rural doctor working in general practice, emergency medicine and anaesthetics and is also a military doctor in the Army Reserve. She occasionally finds time for playing and listening to music, reading and writing, and enjoying time with good mates.
| Station | Year | Season | Job |
|---|---|---|---|
| Macquarie Is | 1985 | Winter | Observer BOM |
| Mawson | 1986 | Winter | Observer BOM |
| Davis | 1988 | Winter | Senior Observer BOM |
| Casey | 1992 | Winter | Observer Gr 3 BOM |
| Mawson | 2005 | Winter | Meteorology OIC |
| Davis | 2007 | Winter | Senior Meteorological Observer BOM |
Denise joined the ANARE Club after her first winter at Macquarie island in 1985 and has held continuous membership since, participating in state (NSW, NT, VIC) and National Council activities. She holds Life Membership with the Club. She completed nine Antarctic trips, becoming the first female to winter at all four current Australian wintering stations (Macquarie Island 1985, Mawson 1986 & 2005, Davis 1988 & 2007, Casey 1992) as a Bureau of Meteorology staff member (Observer, Met OIC and Forecaster) and Deputy Station Leader and round-trip marine science and club berth voyages. She was involved in recovery of passengers from the Akademik Shikalsky. In 1989 Denise was awarded the Australian Antarctic Medal for her efforts as a pioneering Antarctic woman involved in Antarctic research and, jointly with Lynne Williams, became the first woman to receive this award. She has enjoyed a long career with the Bureau of Meteorology with postings to all states except SA and WA and now lives a life of retirement and travel.
| Station | Year | Season | Job |
|---|---|---|---|
| Davis | 2005-06 | Summer | Met Forecaster |
| Casey | 2007-08 | Summer | Met Forecaster |
| Macquarie Island | 2013 | Winter | B.O.M. Meteorologist / OIC |
| Davis | 2017 | Winter | Senior Meteorological Observer |
| Casey | 2021 | Winter | B.O.M. Meteorologist / OIC |
Dutch-born Barry migrated to Perth (via Rhodesia) in 1964. He Joined the Bureau of Meteorology in 1982 as a weather observer. In 1994, after five years of external study, he graduated with a Bachelor of Science (Atmospheric Physics) from Murdoch University. In 1995 he graduated with a Post Graduate Diploma in Meteorology, after which he became a Forecaster (meteorologist) working in Darwin until 2001 then in Hobart, retiring from the Bureau in 2015
His first stint in the Antarctic was the summer of 2005/06 at Davis as a forecaster. Second posting was also as a summer forecaster at Casey in 2007/08. Since then, he has had three winters – Macquarie Island 2013/14, Davis 2016/17 and most recently Casey 2021/22, as the OIC of the weather program. Barry is looking forward to continuing his work with the National Council in the role of Membership Officer.
With a background in environmental science, Dale has worked at Griffith University (Qld) and under contract as writer/researcher for Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service. In a previous life, she was a self-employed luthier for 17 years.
Her twin obsessions of Antarctica and Australian grassroots history have seen the publication of six books, including Antarctic Engineer: memoir of John Russell – a collaboration with ANARE Qld branch. Dale is currently heading the team researching a book for the ANARE Club’s forthcoming 75th anniversary in 2026. She begins her third year as Editor of Aurora journal.
Dale has travelled to Antarctica three times, twice inspecting the Ross Sea historic huts and wandering Taylor Dry Valley.
Ian served in Antarctica in the summer of 1982/83 as an Army Reserve “Larcie” with the Army Detachment to ANARE. He was involved in resupply voyages to all three Australian Bases and Macquarie Island. Leave for military service had been granted by the Victorian Education Department with a request that he make an educational documentary on life down south for Victorian secondary schools. As a teacher he was a film and TV producer for the Education Department at the time. The Army agreed and he summered over at Mawson where he completed the film; “Mawson Base Face to Face”. His other role there was to clean up the base by dumping a large quantity of refuse in Kista strait. (unacceptable today!)
He also took a large quantity of photographs and approached Phil Law to open an exhibition at a Port Melbourne Art Gallery in 1984. A friendship developed and over a twenty year period Ian recorded Phil’s life story and subsequently co-published his oral history with the Royal Society of NSW, titled Dr Phillip Garth Law his extraordinary life and times
| Station | Year | Season | Job |
|---|---|---|---|
| Scott Base (NZ) | 2000/01 | Canteen Manager |
Jenna worked at Scott Base (NZ) 2000/01 as the Canteen Manager and has been around the ANARE Club off and on for many years, first joining before she went South. She attended meetings at Poly Woodside, and was always made welcome at midwinter events, assisting in the organisation. She has held various positions on State and National Council over the years. (She knew Phil Law and many others who have since passed away.) In her other life, she is employed as a Paramedic, and is a Volunteer Fire Fighter with the CFA. Jenna holds a degree in Emergency Management and an Undergraduate Certificate in Mental Health. Hobbies include all things equestrian, Scuba diving and writing Antarctic-based novels (Wild Winds 2011 and Winter Sun 2014).
| Station | Year | Season | Job |
|---|---|---|---|
| Macquarie Is | 1964 | Summer | Biologist |
| Macquarie Is | 1965 | Summer | Biologist |
| Macquarie Is | 1966 | Summer and Winter | Biologist |
| Macquarie Is | 1967 | Summer | Biologist |
Duncan joined the ANARE Club in 1964 when he worked on Macquarie Island as a biologist, working principally on an ecological study of the royal penguin, and his own project on fur seals and some work on elephant seals. In mid-1967 he returned to Australia to help set up and manage the biological division of the Mawson Institute for Antarctic Research at the University of Adelaide.
| Station | Year | Season | Job |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wilkes | 1967 | Winter | Electrician SEFM |
| Macquarie Island | 1970 | Winter | Electrician SEFM |
Ron joined the ANARE Club after wintering as senior electrician at Wilkes in 1967 and then Macquarie Island in 1970. He has been a member of the ANARE Club since that time and has been a committee member of the South Australia branch on and off over the past 25 years, including President of the SA branch for five years. # He has enjoyed playing a small part in the many excellent successful (self-funded) commemorative projects undertaken by the Club.
| Station | Year | Season | Job |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mawson | 1977 | Winter | Diesel Mechanic |
| Macquarie Is | 1979 | Winter | Diesel Mechanic |
| Casey | 1981 | Winter | Diesel Mechanic |
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