James Clark Ross diary – March 15th 2012
Melanie Mackenzie – Museum Victoria Now that we’ve finished collecting specimens, the EVOLHIST biology team on board the James Clark Ross is busily working away in the ship’s labs. Dr […]
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Week 4: Monday 27th February to Sunday 4th March: Completing our biological sampling in the eastern Weddell sea
Read more of: Week 4: Monday 27th February to Sunday 4th March: Completing our biological sampling in the eastern Weddell seaRachel Downey (British Antarctic Survey) We have been working in some amazingly calm waters for the last two weeks, and are now breaking through the sea ice again as we […]
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King Edward Point Diary – February 2012
Read more of: King Edward Point Diary – February 2012February has been a busy month on base, lots of people coming and going. The weather has been very changeable too, a scattering of beautiful sunny days, but also cold […]
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Meet a team member
Read more of: Meet a team memberAdam has joined us from Southampton University where he studies the reproduction and morphology of bivalve molluscs in the Southern Ocean. Like their clam and mussel relatives, Adam’s tiny Antarctic […]
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Week 3: Biological surveys in the eastern Weddell Sea
Read more of: Week 3: Biological surveys in the eastern Weddell SeaJen Jackson (British Antarctic Survey) Hello from the eastern Weddell Sea! On Sunday 19th February we reached the most southerly point of our expedition. At 77.36 degrees south we had […]
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Signy Island Diary — January 2012
Read more of: Signy Island Diary — January 2012The phrase “Science never sleeps” seems to have been very appropriate on Signy this year. We have 3 scientists on base and this season has seen them up at all […]
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King Edward Point Diary – January 2012
Read more of: King Edward Point Diary – January 2012With 2011 on South Georgia being cast into the history books, 2012 started in earnest and once again the King Edward Point gang enjoyed a busy, varied and challenging start […]
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Antarctica 2011-12
Read more of: Antarctica 2011-12We are back down south again in the Weddell Sea once again involved in the annual Halley relief operation. We departed Immingham in the UK in early November and had […]
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King Edward Point Diary – December 2011
Read more of: King Edward Point Diary – December 2011December is a busy time of year down here on South Georgia, being the height of summer. One of the tasks this month was a project to improve the mapping […]
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Rothera Diary — December 2011
Read more of: Rothera Diary — December 2011Cargo and Christmas were the main features of December at Rothera. The arrival of the BAS ship RRS James Clark Ross turned the base into an even busier place than […]
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Signy Island Diary — November 2011
Read more of: Signy Island Diary — November 2011The 2011–12 Signy Island research season began in the early hours of the 16th November, as the Royal Research ship James Clark Ross, having left the Falklands several weeks earlier, […]
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King Edward Point Diary – November 2011
Read more of: King Edward Point Diary – November 2011‘Remember, remember the fifth of November’ It was indeed one of the more memorable Guy Fawkes’ nights of my life: I had only arrived a few days previous with fellow […]