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24 April, 2020 Scott Hosking
When we see news reports on climate change on our TV, they are often accompanied by footage of a polar bear walking over the icy Arctic landscape. But the Arctic …
Read more on Earth Day 2020: A new age of Arctic science discovery – the AI way
17 April, 2020 Livia Oldland
Alan Roper works from Ramboll and is currently Site Supervisor for the new wharf at King Edward Point Research Station in South Georgia as part of the Antarctic Infrastructure Modernisation …
Read more on King Edward Point: A new wharf for the RRS Sir David Attenborough
9 April, 2020 Robert Taylor
Episode 5: Seals from Space In Episode 5 of Iceworld, Rob Taylor is joined by Prem Gill who has just completed two weeks of fieldwork as part of his PhD …
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25 March, 2020 Robert Taylor
Episode 4: Atmosphere In the latest episode of Iceworld, Josh Eveson joins Rob Taylor to talk about the atmosphere and weather research taking place at Halley Research Station. More than …
13 March, 2020 Norman Ratcliffe
PhD student Kirsty Franklin reports on her fieldwork on Round Island, Mauritius, working in collaboration with British Antarctic Survey. In the blog below, Kirsty shares how she is going to …
Read more on Guest Blog – Petrels on Round Island, Mauritius
26 February, 2020 Markus Frey
Dr Markus Frey is on board Russian icebreaker Kapitan Dranitsyn, making the final approach through the Arctic sea ice to join the MOSAiC expedition on board RV Polarstern. German research icebreaker RV Polarstern is staying …
25 February, 2020 Joe Corner
Joe Corner, BAS Islands Project Manager, is currently overseeing the redevelopment of King Edward Point wharf on South Georgia Island in the Sub-Antarctic. The project will enable the new UK …
19 February, 2020 Robert Taylor
In Episode 3, Isobel Rowell and Dieter Tetzner have just returned from several weeks in the field, drilling for ice alongside Dr Robert Mulvaney and field guides Sarah Crowsley and …
4 February, 2020 Jennifer Jackson
BAS biologist Dr Jennifer Jackson shares exciting updates from the wild water whales expedition. The BAS wild water whales team have spent 25 days surveying whales in South Georgia waters. …
3 February, 2020 Markus Frey
Dr Markus Frey is on board Russian icebreaker Kapitan Dranitsyn, waiting for a weather window to make the journey north to join the MOSAiC expedition on board RV Polarstern. German …
29 January, 2020 Markus Frey
Atmosphere and ice climate scientist Dr Markus Frey is on his way to join the MOSAiC (Multidisciplinary drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate) expedition. Markus will be using …
22 January, 2020 Jennifer Jackson
BAS biologist Dr Jennifer Jackson shares updates from the South Georgia southern right whale expedition currently in progress in the sub-Antarctic. During January 2020, the British Antarctic Survey’s wild water …
Read more on Blog: South Georgia whale expedition in full swing!
4 December, 2019 Risa Ueno
Today we officially launched the BAS AI Lab – thank you everyone for coming!
26 November, 2019 Robert Taylor
November, 2019 In his second Antarctic podcast field guide Rob Taylor talks to Catherine Maguire and John Law from the Rothera Research Station meteorology team. Listen Now Episode 2 Rob …
22 November, 2019 Anita Faul
Andrew Fleming and Anita Faul present their research at the First Artificial Intelligence for Copernicus Workshop
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18 September, 2019 Markus Frey
The BAS SSAASI-CLIM team arrived in Tromsø a few days ago to set up equipment onboard of RV Polarstern. On Friday 20 Sep 2019 the German ice breaker will embark …
29 July, 2019 Melody Clark
Professor Melody Clark, Project Leader, discusses the trials and tribulations of undertaking research in Antarctica. Her latest paper published in Nature Communications shows that rising sea temperatures of just 1-2 …
Read more on Warming up the Antarctic: Harder than you think
21 July, 2019 Rachel Furner
Rachel Furner is a PhD student at British Antarctic Survey, which has recently opened up its new AI Lab, that aims to foster the application of various machine learning (and …
16 July, 2019 Norman Ratcliffe
As part of the Project LOMVIA, a small team of researchers headed to Grimsey Island, 40 kilometres off the north coast of Iceland. Fabrice Le Bouard tells us more about …
Read more on Not so grim! Studying guillemots on Grimsey Island