Facilities

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1. Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) receivers

   British Antarctic Survey (BAS) maintains a network of GNSS receivers across West Antarctica

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2. Low Powered Magnetometers (LPM) 

   British Antarctic Survey Low Power Magnetometers focus on studying the external magnetic field and its impact on power grid infrastructure.

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3. WATEC

   Three compact auroral cameras have been installed at Halley Research Station to support coordinated studies of auroral and wave phenomena. 

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4. BAS Radiation Belt Model (BAS-RBM)

   BAS-RBM simulates changes in the high-energy electron population of the radiation belts, taking into account effects such as changing solar activity and wave-particle interactions.

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5. Ice Core Gas Lab

   Specialist ice core facility to measure concentration and isotopic composition of greenhouse gases

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6. The Discovery Building

   The Discovery Building will be a new world-class scientific support and operations facility at Rothera Research Station in Antarctica.

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7. Rothera IT facilities

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8. Herbarium

   The plant collections held in the British Antarctic Survey’s herbarium consist of over 40,000 plant specimens from Antarctica, the sub-Antarctic Islands and surrounding continents.

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9. Rothera medical facility

   Rothera Research Station has a fully equipped medical surgery. In summer there are two doctors onsite; during winter there is one.

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10. Snow gauge

    This instrument is designed to measure the amount of precipitation. It is based on a rain gauge but has been adapted to work in low temperatures with solid precipitation.

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11. Tide gauge

    There is a well located at the wharf containing two tide gauges. One is based on a pressure sensor, the second uses a wave guided radar. These tide gauges make up part of a global network.

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12. SAOZ

    SAOZ measures sunlight scattered from the overhead sky in a way that allows us to calculate how much of the atmospheric gases ozone and nitrogen dioxide the light has passed through on its journey.

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