Polar engineers keep our world running!

23 June, 2023 Elen Jones

Elen Jones joined British Antarctic Survey as the Director of the Antarctic Infrastructure Modernisation Programme in April 2022 after 20 years as an Electrical Engineer in the railway, aerospace and construction industries. For this year’s International Day for Women in Engineering, Elen reflects on her experiences and the importance of encouraging others to join the field of engineering.

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Aurora events

Please note that due to current Covid19 restrictions most of our events have been moved, or are being held virtually

Instrument: Phase-sensitive radar (ApRES)

Research teams use phase-sensitive radars for determining ice shelf basal melt rates.  Data is used to enhance climate models. The ApRES instruments yield time series of ice shelf thickness change …

scientific mooring winch

The RRS James Clark Ross has a purpose build scientific mooring winch, which is capable of deploying mooring of up to 4000m length of 14mm rope diameter. The winch has a …

SAOZ

SAOZ measures sunlight scattered from the overhead sky in a way that allows us to calculate how much of the atmospheric gases ozone and nitrogen dioxide the light has passed through …

Geology laboratories

Since its beginnings in 1945, BAS has been collecting and studying Antarctic rocks and fossils.

Aquarium

Discover the UK’s only cold water research aquarium