David Goodger is the Head of Electronic Services at BAS. In this role he leads a team to provide Electronic Engineering facilities and project delivery in Cambridge as well as directly Supporting Science at Sea on BAS Ships.

Deployments and Fieldwork

• Halley Winter: Radar Engineer: October 2014-April 2016
• 8 Weeks at Halley for Automation Work
• 3 Weeks in Svalbard Testing GPR Systems
• 4x 6-8 Week Ship Cruises
• 6 Weeks In Nepal carrying out a Helicopter GPR Survey

Publications from NERC Open Research Archive

2025

Pritchard, Hamish D. ORCID record for Pritchard, Hamish D.. King, Edward C. ORCID record for King, Edward C.. Goodger, David J. Boyle, Douglas. Goldberg, Daniel N. ORCID record for Goldberg, Daniel N.. Recinos, Beatriz ORCID record for Recinos, Beatriz. Orr, Andrew ORCID record for Orr, Andrew. Regmi, Dhananjay. (2025) Towards Bedmap Himalayas: a new airborne glacier thickness survey in Khumbu Himal, Nepal.

2021

Makinson, Keith ORCID record for Makinson, Keith. Anker, Paul G.D. ORCID record for Anker, Paul G.D.. Garcés, Jonathan. Goodger, David J. Polfrey, Scott. Rix, Julius ORCID record for Rix, Julius. Silva, Alejandro. Smith, Andrew M. ORCID record for Smith, Andrew M.. Uribe, José A. Zamora, Rodrigo. (2021) Development of a clean hot water drill to access Subglacial Lake CECs, West Antarctica.

2020

Pritchard, H.D. ORCID record for Pritchard, H.D.. King, E.C. ORCID record for King, E.C.. Goodger, D.J. McCarthy, M. ORCID record for McCarthy, M.. Mayer, C. Kayastha, R. (2020) Towards Bedmap Himalayas: development of an airborne ice-sounding radar for glacier thickness surveys in High-Mountain Asia.

• Pritchard, H., King, E., Goodger, D., Boyle, D., Goldberg, D., Recinos, B., & Orr, A. (2025). Raw and processed helicopter-borne radio-echo sounding ice thickness data from the glaciers of the Khumbu Himal, Nepal (2019) (Version 1.0) [Data set]. NERC EDS UK Polar Data Centre. https://doi.org/10.5285/e39647f5-fb72-4d16-acbd-9784ed2167b8

4. Halley Automation

   This innovative, multi-year, project created a suite of autonomous scientific instrumentation around Halley Research Station, enabling data collection even when the station may be unoccupied.

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Major Projects

• Delores GPR
• Bedmap Himalayas
• Clean Hot Water Drill