Projects

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1. Bird Island Decarbonisation

   In order to decarbonise our remote Bird Island Research Station on the sub-Antarctic Island of South Georgia we will be installing a solar photovoltaic and energy storage system.

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2. Cambridge HQ Decarbonisation

   We are working on a raft of measures to reduce our carbon emissions at our Cambridge Headquarters, including installation of solar panels on the car park and roofs of buildings, and adding insulation to our Logistics building.

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3. King Edward Point Decarbonisation

   King Edward Point Research Station already meets 80% of its energy demands in electricity and heating by an existing hydropower system. Read more about our plans to decarbonise King Edward Point.

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4. Renewable Energy at Rothera Research Station

   Over the past 15 years we have been introducing renewable energy to buildings across the station in the form of solar thermal and solar photovoltaics (PV).

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5. Winter Krill at South Georgia

   The winter krill project monitors Antarctic krill and predator overlap around South Georgia. Research informs conservation and ecosystem management.

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6. Spatial Segregation of Seabirds at South Georgia

   Tracking and monitoring of seabirds e.g. wandering albatrosses and white-chinned petrels at South Georgia to support conservation.

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7. Aerogeophysical survey of the Wilkes Subglacial Basin

   WISE-ISODYN was a joint UK-Italian project to provide new boundary conditions to input into ice-sheet and paleoclimate models predicting the past and future stability of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet.

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8. GRADES-IMAGE

   The aim of this programme was to image englacial layering and bedrock topography over this sensitive catchment of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet and Antarctic Peninsula.

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9. Aerial survey of Pine Island Glacier

   BBAS-AGASEA used airborne surveys to map the landscape beneath Pine Island Glacier and assess its potential instability due to climate change.

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10. How Antarctic winds shaped CO₂

    SIWHA investigates how westerly winds and sea ice have influenced CO2 uptake and release in the Southern Ocean.

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11. Predicting the mesosphere

    MesoS2D uses powerful radars and satellites to study a little-understood layer of the atmosphere, the mesosphere.

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12. Polar Zero – Ice core

    A moment frozen in time Experience the sound of ancient air bubbles popping as an Antarctic Peninsula ice core emerges from an insulated tube.  As it melts and drips away […]

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