ANTARCTIC BLOG: Busy month for leopard seal sightings!
Leopard seal peak The penultimate month of the lep round has been by far the most exciting. September has been the busiest month yet for leopard seal sightings. It has […]
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ANTARCTIC BLOG: Tales from a polar guide – #1
Read more of: ANTARCTIC BLOG: Tales from a polar guide – #1It’s four AM and I’m wide awake, staring at the deep blue and black shadows on the ceiling of my bedroom. I allow myself just this once to indulge in […]
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GUEST BLOG: Ready for Antarctic trip number five!
Read more of: GUEST BLOG: Ready for Antarctic trip number five!Find out about NERC Research Fellow Dr Sian Henley’s preparations for her fifth visit to Rothera Research Station and what she looks forward to onboard the RRS James Clark Ross.
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ANTARCTIC BLOG: Extreme Geology #1
Read more of: ANTARCTIC BLOG: Extreme Geology #1Science team goes deep field to Marie Byrd Land
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ANTARCTIC BLOG: Leopard seals, wanderer chicks and…superheroes?!
Read more of: ANTARCTIC BLOG: Leopard seals, wanderer chicks and…superheroes?!When I last wrote a web diary, back in April, it was at the end of the summer season and the first few intrepid weeks of winter. It’s hard to […]
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ARCTIC BLOG: Life on the Petermann Ice Shelf, Greenland
Read more of: ARCTIC BLOG: Life on the Petermann Ice Shelf, GreenlandBasically, it was riches beyond my wildest dreams. There’s nothing financial about it, but the feeling of a shower and knowing that your next meal will be a three course […]
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ARCTIC BLOG: Life on ice in the High Arctic
Read more of: ARCTIC BLOG: Life on ice in the High ArcticHello! We are 16 students and early career scientists who had one thing in common: we do polar research, but had never been to the poles! Now that’s all changed and […]
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BLOG: A New Frontier – exploring the Himalaya
Read more of: BLOG: A New Frontier – exploring the HimalayaEarlier this year I spent two months doing fieldwork in the Hindu-Kush Himalaya mountain region in South and Central Asia. It hosts the largest volume of ice and snow outside the polar regions and, for this reason, […]
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ARCTIC BLOG: Students learn skills required for polar science
Read more of: ARCTIC BLOG: Students learn skills required for polar scienceHello! This is the first blog about the upcoming NERC Advanced Training Short Course run by the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) between 26th August and 8th September 2015. We are […]
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ARCTIC BLOG: Hot water drilling on Petermann Glacier
Read more of: ARCTIC BLOG: Hot water drilling on Petermann GlacierStanding anywhere on Petermann ice shelf, the overriding sense you get is the proximity of water. A lot of water. Standing water, ranging from small ponds, up to lakes hundreds […]
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ARCTIC BLOG: It’s not all plain sailing at the top of the World
Read more of: ARCTIC BLOG: It’s not all plain sailing at the top of the WorldA scientist’s view from Petermann Fjord, NW Greenland Three-and-a-bit days is what it takes to get from London to Thule air base in northwest Greenland. A quick flight to Copenhagen […]
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ANTARCTIC BLOG: Winter on Bird Island – a guide to passing the time!
Read more of: ANTARCTIC BLOG: Winter on Bird Island – a guide to passing the time!How do you go from a life where you are constantly around many other people, going from one place to another, to a life where you have only three […]
