Pete Bucktrout
Senior Creative Services Manager
Biography
Pete is the BAS Senior Creative Services Manager. He’s also a Cinematographer/Photographer, UAV pilot and manages the Image Collection at the British Antarctic Survey. Working both with scientists and communications specialists he provides visual solutions that both enable and help communicate BAS Science.
His work has been seen in TV News reports & documentaries around the world and in most, if not all, national and international broadsheet newspapers.
Pete also both leads and plays an active involvement in many science and arts collaborations include the BAFTA winning Antarctic Waves, an ongoing DATA AS ART project, and an exciting/immersive ‘Virtual Antarctica’ project. The latest projects under development being Polar Zero, a science/art/engineering collaboration with the Royal College of Art and Arup, for COP26.
Pete has traveled to the Polar Regions supporting British Science more than a dozen times during his 28 years working for British Antarctic Survey. His experiences now used to advised some of the worlds leading directors & camera operators, as well as government and law enforcement officers on working and filming in challenging environments.
Previous Employment
2018 – Present
Senior Creative Services Manager
British Antarctic Survey
Cambridge & The Polar Regions
2015 – 2018
Creative Services Manager
British Antarctic Survey
Cambridge & The Polar Regions
1990 – 2015
Photographer/Cinematographer & Image Collection Developer
British Antarctic Survey
Cambridge & The Polar Regions
1987 – 1990
Head of Photographic Unit
UK Ministry of Defence
RAF Staff College
1986 – 1987
Senior Photographer
UK Ministry of Defence
1985 – 1986
Staff Photographer
UK Atomic Energy Authority
Research interests
Whilst supporting science across BAS, Pete has a passion for science-art collaborations and virtual environments. As they take BAS science, engineering and operations to new, exciting and wider audiences.
Notes from a cold climate – Antarctic Symphony (Symphony No.8)
A creative record & diaries of Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, recorded during his journey to Antarctica to create an Antarctic Symphony in the footsteps of Vaughan Williams original Symphony written following Scott’s expeditions. Creative imagery by Pete Bucktrout, photographer and cameraman at the British Antarctic Survey.
Publications from NERC Open Research Archive
2023
Forcada, Jaume ORCID record for Jaume Forcada, Hoffman, Joseph I. ORCID record for Joseph I. Hoffman, Gimenez, Olivier, Staniland, Iain J., Bucktrout, Pete, Wood, Andrew G.. (2023) Ninety years of change, from commercial extinction to recovery, range expansion and decline for Antarctic fur seals at South Georgia. Global Change Biology, 29. 21 pp. 10.1111/gcb.16947
2001
Davies, Peter Maxwell, Bucktrout, Pete. (2001) Notes from a cold climate: Antarctic symphony (Symphony No. 8). London, Browns, 152 pp.
- Polar Zero – Ice core
- Polar Zero – 1765 ‘Air’
- Polar Zero – Ice Stories
- Polar Zero: climate science-art collaboration
- Ice Floor Sci-Art Installation
- Impact of Plastic in the Polar Regions
- Virtual Antarctica
- Data As Art
- 60 Second Science
- Data as Art: POLAR AESTHETICS
- Impact of global disturbances on evolution of polar life
I’m lucky enough to be involved in projects across the whole spectrum of BAS science, engineering, and logistics, providing image and visual solutions for our scientific and corporate communications
2021
Polar Zero: visual arts take centre stage at COP26
News 29 June, 2021
2019
Ice core inspired art installation opens in London
News 26 November, 2019
2018
New polar research ship makes a ‘splash’
News 11 July, 2018
2016
Exhibition – Royal College of Art Graduate Show 2016
Event 26 June, 2016
2014
PRESS RELEASE: Penguin trends analysed
News 6 August, 2014
NEWS STORY: Antarctic Science Strategy
News 16 July, 2014
NEWS STORY: Emperor Penguins’ adaptation skills
News 24 June, 2014
2012
PRESS RELEASE: British team to explore buried lake
News 12 December, 2012
PRESS RELEASE: Ice sheet behaviour analysed
News 17 October, 2012
- British Association of Picture Libraries - BAS nominated co-ordinator, British Association of Picture Libraries BAPLA
- Advisor - filming in Extreme Environments, Guild of Television Cameramen
- BAS contact & member, Immerse UK