Bird Island Diary – September 2014
September started with a celebration – Jerry’s birthday on the 1st! It is hard to keep secrets and plan surprises on a small base where everyone knows what everyone else […]
Jessica Walkup
Operations Change Manager
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Bird Island Diary – May 2014
Read more of: Bird Island Diary – May 2014May began, as most months begin on Bird Island, with a census of all the wandering albatross nests on the island. Everyone helps out with the wanderer census as the […]
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Bird Island Diary – January 2014
Read more of: Bird Island Diary – January 2014After seeing in the New Year at the end of the jetty, the first day of 2014 dawned bright and sunny. Adam, Cian, Hannah, Steph, and I decided to make […]
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Construction of new wharf begins as first frame is lowered into place
Read more of: Construction of new wharf begins as first frame is lowered into placeA major milestone has been reached in the construction of a new wharf at Rothera Research Station. The first of 20 steel frames, forming the skeleten of the new structure, has been lowered into place in a piece of precision engineering.
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Digging begins in construction of new Antarctic wharf
Read more of: Digging begins in construction of new Antarctic wharfFirst digging has begun to deconstruct the old wharf at Rothera Research Station as part of modernisation work to transform the way British Antarctic Survey delivers frontier science
