ARCTIC BLOG: Life on ice in the High Arctic
10 September, 2015 Victoria Sleight
Hello! 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
9 September, 2015 Michael McCarthy
Earlier 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, …
ARCTIC BLOG: Students learn skills required for polar science
26 August, 2015 Thomas Clay
Hello! 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
24 August, 2015 Keith Nicholls
Standing 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
21 August, 2015 Kelly Hogan
A 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!
21 August, 2015 Robbie Scott
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 …
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ANTARCTIC BLOG: Life on Bird Island
1 June, 2015 Alastair Wilson
Located at the Western end of South Georgia, Bird Island sits directly in the path of approaching weather, and is often enveloped in cloud and mist. My 3 year old …
ANTARCTIC BLOG: Wild Life!
1 May, 2015 Sian Tarrant
Birds Lucy has been busy at the colonies checking black brow albatross and grey headed albatross nests for failures and fledglings. The black browed albatross chicks have all gone now, …
Bird Island Diary – April 2015
5 April, 2015 Lucy Quinn
April has been an extraordinarily busy month both work-wise and base-wise. It’s also been a month of change as we have gone from 10 people down to just 4, reflecting …
ARCTIC BLOG: Setting foot back on land
27 March, 2015 Markus Frey
Diary entry: Friday 27 March 2015 Time: 2200 hrs UTC Position: 78° 13′ N / 15° 33′ E Air Temperature: +1.5 °C Wind Speed: 8 knots We made it! After 38 days onboard the …