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16 August, 2024 by Peter Convey
Chironomids are widely used in genetic and ecological studies. However, the Antarctic endemic midge Belgica antarctica Jacobs, 1900 has received more limited attention to date. This species is extremely pertinent…24 June, 2024 by Claire Allen, Victoria Peck
Today, South Georgia is heavily glaciated with glaciers often terminating into the ocean via steep-sided bay and U-shaped valleys. However, due to a low number of well-dated climate records from…Read more on Cumberland Bay (South Georgia) glacial evolution during the Holocene
19 October, 2023 by Peter Convey, Peter Fretwell
Precise mapping of Blue Ice Regions (BIRs) in Antarctica can facilitate resource management during expeditions and help plan field investigations. Satellite-based BIR mapping was traditionally performed with large-swath, coarse to…Read more on How precisely can we map blue ice in Antarctica?
1 March, 2023 by Scott Hosking, Tom Andersson
Conditional neural processes (CNPs; Garnelo et al., 2018a) are attractive meta-learning models which produce well-calibrated predictions and are trainable via a simple maximum likelihood procedure. Although CNPs have many advantages,…1 January, 2023 by Andrew Kavanagh, Ingrid Cnossen
The SWIMMR (Space Weather Instrumentation, Measurement, Modelling and Risk) programme is improving the UK’s capability for space weather monitoring and prediction. The thermosphere part of the programme (SWIMMRT) focuses on…Read more on Days to Decades: Forecasting Neutral Densities in Low Earth Orbit
12 December, 2022
Environmental science is primarily concerned with assessing the impacts of changing environmental conditions on the state of the natural world. The UK Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) has recently published…Read more on Developing an Information Management Framework for Environmental Digital Twins (IMFe).
2 July, 2022 by Hamish Pritchard
The Snow Water Equivalent (SWE) of snowfall is important but difficult to measure. While numerous techniques have been developed, measurements are still too sparse, too poorly distributed, too infrequent, too…1 June, 2022 by Keith Nicholls
The design of an HF-VHF frequency modulated continuous wave radar intended for use with an autonomous rover in the polar regions is presented. The RF front-end, antenna design and deramped…Read more on Design of an HF-VHF Ice Penetrating Synthetic Aperture Radar
13 December, 2021 by Nigel Meredith
Extreme-ultraviolet images taken by the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly make it possible to use deep vision techniques in the prediction of solar wind speed - a difficult, high-impact, and unsolved problem.…6 July, 2021 by Joseph Ulanowski
Numerous studies of the electrical properties in dusty environments, related to lofted particle charging, indicate that it is a rather complex mechanism which greatly affects the particle dynamics. The electrification…14 July, 2020 by Mark Clilverd
“ACHDANet” (Automatic Chorus and Hiss Detector and Analyzer Network) project is an analogy to, and additional product of the well-known AWDANet. Our mission is to create a monitoring system which…14 July, 2020 by Richard Horne
Van Allen Probes EMFISIS observations in both survey and burst mode are coupled with ray tracing simulations to determine the percentage of chorus wave power that exists with the conditions…3 May, 2020 by Alex Brisbourne, Andy Smith, Carlos Martin Garcia
Lateral shear margins provide resistance to ice flow within ice streams and play an important role in the overall dynamics of ice sheets. The strength and location of shear margins…20 January, 2020 by Alexander Brearley
A Kongsberg Seaglider with a microstructure package was deployed in the Faroe-Shetland Channel in 2017 as part of the 4th Marine Autonomous Systems in Support of Marine Observations (MASSMO4). Using…1 December, 2019 by Dani Jones
Abstract—We use an unsupervised classification technique (i.e. Gaussian mixture modeling or GMM) to identify ocean regions with similar balances between processes that determine the surface budget of dissolved inorganic carbon.…Read more on Gaussian mixture modeling describes the geography of the surface ocean carbon budget.
22 November, 2019 by Louise Sime
Creating more accurate reconstructions of past Antarctic ice sheet shapes allows us to better predict how they will vary in the changing climate and contribute to future sea level changes.…Read more on Ice Cores and Emulation: Learning More About Past Ice Sheet Shapes.
1 July, 2019 by Scott Hosking
Competing multi-sectorial water demands as well as demands for ecosystem services in coastal aquifers exert significant pressures to local water resources. Climate change is already altering spatiotemporal rainfall and runoff…6 June, 2019 by Jeremy Wilkinson
To support future scientific missions beneath Antarctic ice shelves, the Antarctic Gateway Partnership, a special research initiative of the Australian Research Council, is trialling its Autonomous Underwater Vehicle, nupiri muka,…1 July, 2015
Antarctic crews have been transporting plants and their supporting infrastructure to Antarctic field sites since as early as 1902. More than 46 distinct plant production facilities have, at one time…1 January, 2014 by Dominic Hodgson, Peter Convey
The Antarctic Peninsula is one of the most rapidly warming regions on Earth, with air temperature increases of as much as 3°C recorded since the 1950s. However, the longer-term context…11 April, 2013 by Damien Guihen, Eugene Murphy, Sophie Fielding
The GENTOO project aims to investigate the potential for undersea gliders to make high resolution temporal and spatial biological and physical observations of ocean currents and krill distribution to the…Read more on Acoustic detection of krill from an undersea glider
21 February, 2013 by Emily Shuckburgh
When conducting marine seismic surveys, ocean currents noticeably perturb seismic streamers from their desired location. To accurately monitor a reservoir, the receivers in the streamers must be as close as…Read more on Inferring ocean currents from the shapes of towed seismic streamers. Extended abstract
1 January, 2013 by Jennifer Jackson
Humpback sub-stocks BSE1 (East Australia), BSE2 (New Caledonia), BSE3 (Tonga) and BSF2 (French Polynesia) show significant genetic differentiation, yet share common high latitude feeding grounds between 130E-100W and were subject…1 January, 2013 by Jennifer Jackson
The Oceania population of humpback whales, comprising sub-stocks E2, E3, and F, was heavily depleted by whaling operations in the 20th century and is now classed as Endangered by the…2 November, 2012 by Emma Woodfield
Long-term changes in the magnetic environment of the Earth are of interest to those studying climate change. To this end we examine long-term changes in daily variation as derived from…Read more on Long-term trends in geomagnetic daily variation
24 October, 2012 by Mark Clilverd
The Earth's magnetic field varies over many time scales. Whilst the slow secular variation of the strength and direction of the field over years to centuries is governed by processes…Read more on Geomagnetic and Solar Variability and Natural Climate Change
12 September, 2011 by Robert Larter
Overall Objective: Review existing data and identify priorities for future geoscience research (terrestrial, marine and airborne) in the Amundsen Sea embayment (ASE) region required to develop a better understanding of…9 December, 2009 by Robert Larter
The Amundsen Sea Embayment is the most rapidly changing sector of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet and contains enough ice to raise global sea level by 1.2 m. Over the…1 January, 2007 by Dave Ingham
The British Antarctic Survey(BAS) is implementing a phased approach to completely redevelop Rothera Research Station, with the first phase currently work in progress. BAS operates five major research stations and…1 January, 2007 by Fausto Ferraccioli
A high resolution aeromagnetic survey (altitude 125 m asl, spacing 500 m , area 800 km2) was carried out in 1994 offshore of Cape Roberts by the GITARA (German ITalian…1 January, 2004 by Andrew Fleming
We compared both SeaWiFS (Sea-viewing Wide Field-of-View Sensor) and MODIS (Moderate-resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer) chlorophyll-a (chl-a) measurements with simultaneous ship based data obtained during a 2003 British Antarctic Survey (BAS) research…1 January, 2001 by Gareth Marshall
Meteorological surface observations from the Antarctic Peninsula began in the mid-1940s. The most reliable long-term (~50 years) temperature record from this region has been obtained from Faraday station on the…