Projects

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1. Plastic Policy

   BAS researchers play leading roles within the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) as chair and members of the Plastic Action Group, a group which aims to assess the current […]

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2. Diversity in UK Polar Science Initiative

   This initiative promotes diversity and inclusion in UK polar science, and supports underrepresented groups

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3. Bycatch risk of wandering albatrosses from radar detection

   The overall objective of this project is to link habitat preference, at-sea activity patterns and detections from novel bird-borne radars to quantify interactions of tracked wandering albatrosses with legal and IUU fishing vessels.

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4. South Georgia Right Whale project – Whale Tracking

   The British Antarctic Survey whale research team at King Edward Point have been studying whale movements and patterns of habitat use in South Georgia waters. South Georgia was at the […]

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5. Water Resources of the Upper Indus Basin

   This project investigated how much water is stored in the glaciers and snow of the Upper Indus Basin, and how climate variability influences water availability.

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6. Measuring shipping emissions in the Arctic

   SEANA is a NERC-funded project, led by Dr Zongbo Shi (U. Birmingham) that aims to define the baseline atmosphere and model potential future changes.

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7. Sea salt aerosols and Arctic climate

   SSAASI-CLIM attempts to determine the salt sea aerosol source, fate and potential impact on Arctic climate associated with blowing snow above sea ice and other sea ice sources.

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8. North Sea Methane

   Offshore gas fields worldwide are major sources of methane emissions. Developing reliable methods to locate emissions and pinpoint sources is critical for quantifying the volume of methane emissions from gas fields across the world.

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9. Whole Atmosphere Climate Change

   Whole Atmosphere Climate Change project investigated how human-driven climate change in the lower atmosphere affects upper atmosphere conditions up to 500 km altitude.

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10. Space Weather Impact on Ground-based Systems (SWIGS)

    SWIGS investigated how space weather drives geomagnetically induced currents in power grids, pipelines, and railways.

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11. Polar Ice

    The aim of this project is to develop a next generation sea ice information service by integrating and building on a wide range of European and national funded activities which incorporate many of the required components.

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12. Tracing West Antarctica’s ice sheet history

    WAMSISE examined the record of ice sheet evolution on West Antarctic continental margins from middle Miocene to present, clarify the factors controlling the major sedimentary changes, and consider their global implications.

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