Pat Wongpan is a quantitative sea ice biogeochemist/ecologist at the Australian Antarctic Program Partnership Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania. He obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Otago in New Zealand, was a David Crighton fellow at the University of Cambridge, and a JSPS post-doctoral fellow at the Institute of Low Temperature Science, Hokkaido University, Japan. He is interested in sea ice-ice shelf-ocean interactions and their consequences on the ecosystem.