Research projects

Development of regional models to examine the detailed oceanography of island shelves and surrounding regions.

As part of the BAS Polar Oceans team’s long-term monitoring programme, we have been observing this outflow using moored instruments since 2007, in collaboration with Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory , who have been observing this region since 2004.

OFCAP was an integrated programme of field observations, analysis and modelling aimed at understanding how the westerly winds in the Antarctic Peninsula influence the climate.

This project will tackle the the question of how strongly changes in ocean circulation affect global climate.

Understanding krill-parasite interactions helps predict krill population dynamics. It also improves models of Antarctic ecosystem function.

Past Westerly Winds research project used climate model simulations to investigate how Southern Ocean westerly winds behaved during the last glacial maximum.

The aim of this project is to learn more about the feeding habits of penguins around the Antarctic Peninsula to understand how their behaviour may be changing as the waters around the Peninsula warm.

PlanetBelt3 will be looking at the radiation belts of Saturn in this project, to include important newly recognised transport processes.

The Polar Airborne Geophysics Data Portal provides direct access to airborne survey data.

The aim of this project is to develop a next generation sea ice information service by integrating and building on a wide range of European and national funded activities which incorporate many of the required components.

PolarRES investigates polar climate processes in the Arctic and Antarctic, improving global climate projections and reducing uncertainties to better assess environmental and social impacts.

Polar TEP provides polar researchers with access to computing resources, earth observation and other data, and software tools in the cloud.