Ian Kenneth Fergusson is a BBC Weather Presenter, Fellow of the Royal Meteorological Society and a Chartered Biologist specialising on sharks, especially species inhabiting the Mediterranean Sea.
[3] A dedicated marine conservationist, Fergusson was a founding trustee, inaugural chairman and now a patron of the Shark Trust, a wildlife charity formed in 1997 and based in Plymouth, UK.
Since 1994, he has served as a member of the IUCN (World Conservation Union) Shark Specialist Group, assisting with preparation of Red List status accounts.
[citation needed] In 2007 Fergusson won a Craft Award for camerawork from the Royal Television Society in Bristol[4] and was a nominee for the same category in 2006.
A keen electric bass guitarist since age of 13, Fergusson cites his key influence as the late Chic bassist, Bernard Edwards.