James B. McClintock

James B. McClintock (born Ann Arbor, MI) is an American professor of biology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and studies various aspects of marine biology in Antarctica. He is an authority on the effects of climate change in Antarctica which is detailed in his book ''Lost Antarctica – Adventures in a Disappearing Land'',.

McClintock received his bachelor's degree from the University of California at Santa Cruz in 1978 and his PhD from the University of South Florida in 1984. In 1987, after completing a National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of California at Santa Cruz, he joined the faculty of the Department of Biology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and is the Endowed University Professor of Polar and Marine Biology. Provided by Wikipedia