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1. Scientist awarded prestigious award

   British Antarctic Survey space weather scientist, Dr Mark Clilverd, has been awarded a prestigious award from the Royal Astronomical Society (RAS) in their 2019 Awards. The award recognises Mark as […]

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2. Essential cargo delivered for science on Thwaites Glacier

   The British Antractic Survey’s vessel RRS Ernest Shackleton teamed up with the Royal Navy survey ship HMS Protector to help scientists begin a five-year mission  to understand how West Antarctica […]

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3. Scientists complete remote ice core drilling mission

   A team of scientists and engineers from British Antarctic Survey and the University of Cambridge has successfully drilled over 650 metres in to an Antarctic ice cap to obtain an […]

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4. Opportunities for Antarctic research – Apply now

   Applications to carry out small-scale research projects in the Antarctic in the 2019/20 season are invited from UK-based researchers. The Collaborative Antarctic Science Scheme (CASS) provides fieldwork opportunities for scientists […]

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5. Funding to assess shipping emissions and climate hazards

   British Antarctic Survey (BAS) scientists have been awarded funding to enable them to assess the impact of emissions from shipping and to quantify and manage the risk of climate hazards. […]

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6. ‘Sounds of Space’ from Antarctica feature in space simulation game

   Amazing, natural, ‘sounds of space’, have been incorporated into the new exploration gameplay in Elite Dangerous

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7. Summer fieldwork begins at Halley

   Halley opens for 2018 summer field season

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8. Seabird populations on Antarctic Peninsula unexpected

   Results of a new study on Antarctic seabirds shows a larger percentage of their populations inhabit important nesting sites around Ryder Bay, close to British Antarctic Survey’s Rothera Station than […]

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9. All aboard and bound for Antarctica

   The DS Wisconsin departs for Antarctica loaded with 4,500 tonnes of kit required to build the new Rothear Wharf

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10. Antarctic game features new videos

    ‘Ice Flows’, a free-to-use and interactive game, which demonstrates the impact of climate change in Antarctica now has an exciting new feature – explainer videos, narrated by the penguin characters […]

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11. Ice sheets growing from the base

    Fresh water freezing onto the bottom of the Greenland and Antarctic Ice Sheets leads to the formation of spectacular plume-shaped features, according to new research published today (7th November) in […]

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12. Prestigious award for BAS early career scientist

    Congratulations to Dr Emilie Capron who has been awarded the prestigious Early Career Scientist Award of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG). Dr Capron is a palaeoclimatologist at British […]

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