Evolution and Biodiversity in the Antarctic: The Response of Life to Change or EBA is an international, multidisciplinary programme that has been approved by the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) for 2006 - 2013. Meghana Rajanahally is currently one of the co-secretaries of EBA and will be the official APECS representative at upcoming EBA meeting. "I am excited to be an APECS representative at the EBA meetings at the SCAR conference in Portland, where I will be co-convening a session as well. I am someone who likes to be involved in representing and contributing and hope to be more involved in Polar research organizations as I look for a postdoctoral fellowship soon."
Meghana originally comes from Bangalore, India and is currently a final year PhD student in marine biology at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand working in Ken Ryan’s sea ice research group, which contributes to the LGP. Her research focuses on the ecophysiology of Antarctic sea ice algae where she studies the effects of light, UV and temperature on their physiology and has been conducted in the Ross Sea region and on laboratory cultures in New Zealand and Australia. Meghana has always been interested in conservation biology and her goal is to be a researcher who can make a significant contribution in this area. She is particularly interested in studying the effect of climate change on the physiology of polar organisms.
