Pilvi works as Impact facilitator within the BAS Innovation team. Their main responsibilities revolve around identifying and developing Innovation and Impact work across BAS through project management and facilitation as well as community creation. Pilvi coordinates the BAS network of  Innovation Champions. This network brings together individuals across all areas of BAS, bringing forth topics and projects from the different priority areas of the BAS Innovation and Impact Strategy and encouraging inter-disciplinary thinking. Pilvi works collaboratively with a range of internal and external stakeholders managing projects that sit on the outskirts of the BAS business-as-usual and has particular strengths in developing and delivering workshops and collaborations that unlock new opportunities and increase the impact of our expertise.

Before stepping into the current role, Pilvi managed the Aurora Innovation Centre & Collaboration Space as Front of House, supporting the core Innovation team as well as being part of the Executive Support team. Pilvi now manages the Innovation Administrator role who is in charge of the activities within the Aurora Innovation Centre. Pilvi’s responsibilities also include the management and strategic development of the space, and exploring opportunities for enabling new collaborations through the Aurora activities.

Particular areas of focus of current Innovation work are on enhancing innovation culture through inclusive culture-change, decarbonisation, horizon scanning for digital transformation (including all the hype words, AI, ML, research software engineering!) and new technologies for Polar Science. Beyond the project management nature of their role, Pilvi is interested in sustainable leadership and development, encouraging active cultural change with regards to equality, diversity and inclusion, as well as inclusive community building within the Polar community. Pilvi themself is a member of the LGBTQIA+ community. #PolarPride

Pilvi is a member of the Diversity in UK Polar Research Initiative (DiPSI) steering group.

1. Logist AI for environmentally aware decision support

   AMOP is developing Artificial Intelligence methods that aim to optimise the efficiency of Antarctic field operations, while maximising science delivery

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2. 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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3. 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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4. Climate Code

   This collaborative project is born from exploring novel ways of visualising environment​al data and telling the climate change story. Read more about the project and the science behind it through the project page.

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5. Diversity in UK Polar Science Initiative – Key outcomes

   A series of events and activities to raise awareness of opportunities in UK Polar Science

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6. Towards Net Zero Carbon

   Our strategy and work streams to meet Net Zero goals

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1. Guest blog: Why Pride matters for doing better polar research

   Polar research often conjures images of scientists operating in remote, arduous conditions at the ends of the world reminiscent of the likes of Scott, Shackleton and Amundsen during the ‘Heroic Age’ of polar exploration at the turn of the 20th century. However, 21st century polar research is so much more than this.

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2. In conversation with our interns: Career progression

   Over the past year, our Equality Diversity and Inclusion interns have spent time at BAS working on a variety of fascinating polar projects. Here, we hear about how they’ve built […]

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3. Growing beyond acronyms

   You may have heard acronyms such as EDI, DEI, EDIA, JEDI, and wondered what they mean. They refer to issues including equity, equality, diversity, inclusion and accessibility, concepts that take on different meanings depending on the cultural and historical context they exist in.  Historically, and still today, we know that some people are systemically disadvantaged and marginalised in society, so whatever the acronym, inclusion work should generally try to dismantle and help unlearn prevailing unjust structural and cultural settings. 

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4. GUEST BLOG: Improving accessibility with BSL

   Today, 3 December 2021, is the United Nations International Day of Persons with Disabilities (IDPD). The theme this year focuses on “Leadership and participation of persons with disabilities toward an […]

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1. NERC Tech Forum 2024

   BAS will be hosting the 2024 edition of the NERC Tech Forum, with the aim of bringing together engineers and others involved in new technology across the NERC centres and broader community. The aim for the event is building community, facilitating Knowledge Transfer through workshops and providing and opportunity for networking outside of our daily colleagues.

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2. UK Arctic Science Conference 2023

   We are pleased to be hosting the next UK Arctic Science Conference will be hosted by the British Antarctic Survey in Cambridge, 11 – 13 September 2023. 

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3. Engagement seminar: Digital twinning for marine science fieldwork

   Join this engagement seminar to discuss digital twinning as a way to complement and enhance traditional marine science fieldwork.

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4. Creating a more inclusive workspace in UK polar science

   The first observations from the Diversity in UK Polar Science Initiative (DiPSI) describes the efforts required to create a more inclusive workplace in UK polar science. The editorial is published […]

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5. Climate Code showcase in collaboration with Cambridge Science Centre

   The Climate Code shirt will be showcased as part of an engagement event at the Grand Arcade with Cambridge Science Centre. Bring your family along and design your own climate change shirt!

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6. New report outlines the importance of Intentionally Inclusive Spaces in STEM

   A report outlining the importance of Intentionally Inclusive Spaces in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) through a case study of the Polar Horizons 2021 programme is published this month […]

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7. Universities Network: COP26 Images of Innovation Exhibition

   The Innovation Showcase explains how innovative science and technology is helping or, in future, could substantially help the goals of COP26 and of reducing greenhouse gas emissions, enabling adaptation to climate change or informing action related to climate change.

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8. Frozen in time: climate change challenge to be showcased at upcoming sustainability conference

   A dramatic art installation symbolising our warming climate will be launched at the Cambridge Cleantech annual conference on 20 October as the city’s innovators and scientists gather together to brainstorm […]

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9. Knowledge Snack: Digital Twins of infrastructure and the environment

   Join us for this Knowledge Snack session to explore what Digital Twins are, and what applications they can have both in infrastructure management and in finding new ways of capturing and understanding the environment.

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10. Knowledge Snack webinar: The challenge of decarbonising energy systems in remote areas

    Join us for this Knowledge Snack session on “The challenge of decarbonising energy systems in remote areas”, co-hosted by BAS Innovation team and the DTE+ Network.

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11. Celebrating Black History month: Dr Melissa Burt

    As Assistant Dean of Diversity and Inclusion at Colorado State university and an Atmospheric Scientist, Dr Melissa Burt talks of her different roles in science and diversity #BlackHistoryMonth #WomeninSTEM #BAMEinSTEM

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12. 3rd Venture School: People, Plastics & Our Planet

    People, Plastics and our Planet offers the unique opportunity for early career researchers and entrepreneurial individuals from the business community to come together to develop and test ideas around solving the challenges posed by plastics in our environment.

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13. Waste Management and Recycling

    Waste management is a challenge that we can definitively no longer ignore. Join us to see how waste management and recovery can become an integrated part of our economy. Discover some of today’s solutions to Reuse, Recycle or Reduce and how those can be adopted as best practices by all.

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14. Plastic solutions: workshop at BAS

    People, Plastics and the Planet is an international workshop to tackle the global plastic waste problem taking place at British Antarctic Survey’s Aurora Innovation Centre from 18th – 21st September 2018. Organised by BAS, Cambridge University and Value in Enterprise offers the unique opportunity for scientists and entrepreneurs to spend four days developing and testing ideas to address challenges posed by plastics in our environment.

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15. Aurora venue hire

    We hire out our state-of-the-art conference and meeting facilities and exhibition spaces.

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16. Aurora Collaboration Space

    The Aurora Collaboration Space at British Antarctic Survey is a coworking space for members who share our passion for the environment.

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17. Aurora Innovation Centre

    The Aurora Innovation Centre offers a space and support services for interdisciplinary collaboration to tackle environmental challenges and increase real-world benefit of polar research.

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