Research projects

The South Georgia Right Whale project is a dedicated population survey of southern right whales, in their feeding grounds off South Georgia, since whaling ceased in the 1970s.

This project tests whether satellite imagery can be used to monitor breeding seabirds across the island group.

South Georgia’s Lost Giants is part of the British Antarctic Survey’s “Wild Water Whales” project studying the recovery of whales from historical exploitation in South Georgia.

Understanding the Ocean Regulation of Climate by Heat, Carbon Sequestration and Transports

SWIGS investigated how space weather drives geomagnetically induced currents in power grids, pipelines, and railways.

Assessing Space Weather impacts

SWESNET from British Antarctic Survey provides a forecast of high energy electrons in the Earth’s radiation belts which can cause damage to satellites on orbit. These forecasts are used by satellite operators to take mitigating action.

SPACESTORM is a collaborative project to model space weather events and find ways to mitigate their effects on satellites.

Tracking and monitoring of seabirds e.g. wandering albatrosses and white-chinned petrels at South Georgia to support conservation.

THOR examined sedimentary record both offshore from the glacier and beneath the ice shelf, together with glacial landforms on the sea bed, to reconstruct past changes in ocean conditions and the glaciers response to these changes.

The international IceAGE project focuses on the collection of genetically useful material for DNA barcoding, population genetics and other molecular analyses of Icelandic marine animals.

SUBICE, the Sub-Antarctic – ice coring expedition, part of the international Antarctic Circumnavigation Expedition (ACE), successfully drilled several shallow ice cores, from five of the remote and globally significant sub-Antarctic islands.