Dr. Jim McClintock Jim McClintock is a marine chemical ecologist and invertebrate zoologist. He is an Endowed Professor of Polar and Marine Biology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Beginning in 1983, Dr. McClintock has been a member of 14 research expeditions to Antarctica. Dr. McClintock can be reached by e-mail at mcclinto@uab.edu Click HERE to visit his UAB Biology home page.