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1. BAS staff recognised with Royal Society Fellowships

   We are delighted to announce that today (6 May 2021) Professor Dame Jane Francis, Director of British Antarctic Survey, and Professor Richard Horne, Head of Space Weather and Atmosphere team, […]

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2. Antarctica’s magnetic link to ancient neighbours

   For the first time, an international team of scientists has used satellite magnetic data from ESA’s Swarm mission, together with aeromagnetic data, to help reveal the mysteries of the geology […]

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3. Do your PhD with British Antarctic Survey in 2021

   Applications for PhD projects with British Antarctic Survey (BAS) are now open for October 2021 admission. There are currently over 100 PhD students associated with BAS, working on a huge variety […]

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4. Traces of rainforests found in West Antarctica

   An international team of researchers has provided a new and unprecedented perspective on the climate history of Antarctica. From a sediment core collected from the seafloor in West Antarctica, they […]

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5. Discovery of rare lava lake on remote sub-Antarctic island

   A team of scientists has discovered a rare lava lake on a remote and inaccessible sub-Antarctic island. This volcano in the South Sandwich Islands is only the 8th to be identified worldwide to have a persistent lava lake. 

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6. Marine life recovery following the dinosaurs’ extinction

   A new study shows how marine life around Antarctica returned after the extinction event that wiped out the dinosaurs. A team led by British Antarctic Survey studied just under 3000 […]

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7. International research expedition heads to West Antarctica

   An international team of scientists is travelling to the Amundsen Sea – one of the most vulnerable sectors of the Antarctic Ice Sheet – to answer vital scientific questions about […]

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8. Bedrock sampling beneath Antarctic ice

   In this project samples of bedrock were analysed to determine how long they have been shielded from the sun, and that could tell us how long ago the ice sheet formed, even if the first ice has long gone.

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9. “Thermal scar” from dinosaur era still warming base of Greenland Ice Sheet, new findings show

   A new ‘heat map’ shows, in unprecedented detail, how geothermal heat is escaping through the Earth’s surface beneath the Greenland Ice Sheet. This is critical information for enabling scientists to […]

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10. New magnetic anomaly map helps unveil Antarctica

    The most comprehensive magnetic map of Antarctica ever produced is published this week (15 July 2018). The new map – which includes 3.5 million line-kilometres of magnetic anomaly data collected […]

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11. New maps show why glacier ice front suddenly shrank

    Pine Island Glacier in West Antarctica is one of the fastest-flowing glaciers in Antarctica. Over the last eleven years, four major icebergs have broken off from its floating ice shelf. […]

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12. Subglacial valleys and mountain ranges discovered near South Pole

    Revealing Antarctica’s hidden world

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