Research projects

Cold Skeletons investigates how extreme cold affects skeleton formation in Antarctic marine animals.

Svalbard Integrated Earth Observing System (SIOS) is an international infrastructure project. There are 26 partners from Europe and Asia involved. The essential objective is to establish better coordinated services for the International Research community with respect to access, data and knowledge management, logistics and training.

Continuous Plankton Recorder collected long-term data on plankton in the Southern Ocean which sit at the base of the food chain and are very sensitive to change.

The first Red List for Antarctic and Subantarctic marine molluscs, for the British Antarctic Territory, Falkland Islands, South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands, funded by Darwin Plus.

DATA AS ART visualises science data to create stunning and thought-provoking artworks, using real Antarctic data-sets that explain important and exciting science stories.

During this project essential survey data was collected to help plan future deep ocean drilling expeditions.

This research project explored using remote sensing to locate rare earth element deposits.

This project is developing digital twins of Antarctic and Arctic environments and resources. A digital twin makes it possible to test “what if” questions far more quickly than traditional computer models.

This initiative promotes diversity and inclusion in UK polar science, and supports underrepresented groups

Dynamic Live Cell Imaging investigated how Antarctic marine organisms, particularly fish, function at temperatures below 0°C

The Copernicus marine environment monitoring service provides regular and systematic reference information on the state of the physical oceans and regional seas.

PADIE (Pitch-Angle Diffusion of Ions and Electrons) is a computational model developed at BAS that calculates how electromagnetic waves affect charged particles in radiation belts.