Palaeoenvironments

Percussive Rapid Access Isotope Drill

The ice sheets of Antarctica can be several kilometres thick, and contain precious information about the past climate. However, the bottoms of the ice sheets are melting, erasing this information. …

Late Quaternary changes in the Westerly Winds over the Southern Ocean

In this NERC-funded project, we are generating Southern Hemisphere Westerlies (SHW) proxy records from each of the three major sectors of the Southern Ocean, focusing on subantarctic islands situated in …

Arctic marine geophysics

This research focuses on investigating the glacial histories of Arctic ice sheets and ice caps using the marine geological record preserved on continental margins. By reconstructing past ice sheets, their …

ANiSEED – AmuNdsen Sea Embayment Exposure Dating

This project will reconstruct millennial-scale ice sheet change in the western Amundsen Sea Embayment, Antarctica, using high-precision exposure dating.

Filchner Ice Shelf System, Antarctica

Understanding the contribution that polar ice sheets make to global sea-level rise is recognised internationally as urgent. The mission of this five-year project is to capture new observations and data …

The penultimate deglaciation: protocol for PMIP4 transient numerical simulations between 140 and 127 ka

5 September, 2018

Palaeoclimate constraints on the impact of 2 °C anthropogenic warming and beyond

25 June, 2018

The Holocene retreat dynamics and stability of Petermann Glacier in northwest Greenland

29 May, 2018

Globally discordant Isocrinida (Crinoidea) migration confirms asynchronous Marine Mesozoic Revolution

17 May, 2018

Key stages in the evolution of the Antarctic marine fauna

1 May, 2018

Greenland records of aerosol source and atmospheric lifetime changes from the Eemian to the Holocene

16 April, 2018

Holocene multi-proxy environmental reconstruction from Lake Hakluytvatnet, Amsterdamøya Island, Svalbard (79.5°N)

1 February, 2018

Global patterns of declining temperature variability from the Last Glacial Maximum to the Holocene

1 February, 2018

The last forests on Antarctica: reconstructing flora and temperature from the Neogene Sirius Group, Transantarctic Mountains

12 January, 2018

Climatic and in-cave influences on δ18O and δ13C in a stalagmite from northeastern India through the last deglaciation

1 November, 2017

The PMIP4 contribution to CMIP6 – Part 2: Two interglacials scientific objectives and experimental Designs for Holocene and Last Interglacial simulations

1 November, 2017

Subglacial sediment pathways and deglacial chronology of the northern Barents Sea Ice Sheet

1 October, 2017

Synchronous volcanic eruptions and abrupt climate change ∼17.7 ka plausibly linked by stratospheric ozone depletion

19 September, 2017

The formation and Late Quaternary palaeoenvironmental history of sediment mounds in the Amundsen Sea, West Antarctica

1 September, 2017

A comparison of annual layer thickness model estimates with observational measurements using the Berkner Island ice core, Antarctica

1 August, 2017

West Antarctic Ice Sheet retreat driven by Holocene warm water incursions

1 July, 2017

Evidence for a palaeo-subglacial lake on the Antarctic continental shelf

1 June, 2017

The late Ordovician Soom Shale Lagerstȁtte: an extraordinary post-glacial fossil and sedimentary record

1 January, 2017

Geomorphic and shallow-acoustic investigation of an Antarctic Peninsula fjord system using high-resolution ROV and shipboard geophysical observations: Ice dynamics and behaviour since the Last Glacial Maximum

1 December, 2016

The Paleocene of Antarctica: dinoflagellate cyst biostratigraphy, chronostratigraphy and implications for the palaeo-Pacific margin of Gondwana

1 October, 2016

Low atmospheric CO2 levels during the Little Ice Age due to cooling-induced terrestrial uptake

1 September, 2016

Antarctic last interglacial isotope peak in response to sea ice retreat not ice-sheet collapse

16 August, 2016

Source identification and distribution reveals the potential of the geochemical Antarctic sea ice proxy IPSO25

1 August, 2016

Rapid early Holocene sea-level rise in Prydz Bay, East Antarctica

1 April, 2016

Highly productive polar forests from the Permian of Antarctica

1 January, 2016

Development of a regional glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraether (GDGT)-temperature calibration for Antarctic and sub-Antarctic lakes

1 January, 2016

On the reconstruction of palaeo-ice sheets: Recent advances and future challenges

1 October, 2015

Millennial changes in North American wildfire and soil activity over the last glacial cycle

1 September, 2015

Retrieving the paleoclimactic signal from the deeper part of the EPICA Dome C ice core?

20 August, 2015

The late Oligocene flora from the Río Leona Formation, Argentinian Patagonia

1 May, 2015

Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) shallow water hydrocarbon seeps from Snow Hill and Seymour Islands, James Ross Basin, Antarctica

15 January, 2015

Antarctic palynology and palaeoclimate – a review

1 January, 2015

The James Ross Island and the Fletcher Promontory ice-core drilling projects

1 December, 2014

Absence of a Medieval Climate Anomaly, Little Ice Age and twentieth century warming in Skarvsnes, Lützow Holm Bay, East Antarctica

1 October, 2014

Reconstruction of ice-sheet changes in the Antarctic Peninsula since the Last Glacial Maximum

15 September, 2014

Reconstruction of changes in the Amundsen Sea and Bellingshausen Sea sector of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet since the Last Glacial Maximum

15 September, 2014

A community-based geological reconstruction of Antarctic Ice Sheet deglaciation since the Last Glacial Maximum

15 September, 2014

Proxy development: a new facet of morphological diversity in the marine diatom Eucampia antarctica (Castracane) Mangin

2 September, 2014

Latest Cretaceous–earliest Paleogene vegetation and climate change at the high southern latitudes: palynological evidence from Seymour Island, Antarctic Peninsula

15 August, 2014

Insight into the Latest Messinian (5.7-5.2 Ma) paleoclimatic events from two deep-sea Atlantic Ocean ODP sites

1 August, 2014

A cool temperate climate on the Antarctic Peninsula during the latest Cretaceous and early Paleogene

1 July, 2014

New views of plant fossils from Antarctica: a comparison of X-ray and neutron imaging techniques

1 July, 2014

Factors controlling the last interglacial climate as simulated by LOVECLIM1.3

27 June, 2014

Climate variability features of the last interglacial in the East Antarctic EPICA Dome C ice core

16 June, 2014

Geothermal activity helps life survive glacial cycles

15 April, 2014

Deep ocean carbonate ion increase during mid Miocene CO2 decline

26 February, 2014

The Ellsworth Subglacial Highlands: Inception and retreat of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet

1 January, 2014

The Early Miocene Cape Melville Formation fossil assemblage and the evolution of modern Antarctic marine communities

1 January, 2014

Investigating the consistency between proxy-based reconstructions and climate models using data assimilation: a mid-Holocene case study

6 December, 2013

Ecosystem impacts of feral rabbits on World Heritage sub-Antarctic Macquarie Island: a palaeoecological perspective

1 November, 2013

Paleogeographic controls on the onset of the Antarctic circumpolar current

1 October, 2013

Plants and soil microbes respond to recent warming on the Antarctic Peninsula

9 September, 2013

The links between large igneous provinces, continental break-up and environmental change: evidence reviewed from Antarctica

22 July, 2013

Southern Hemisphere westerly wind changes during the Last Glacial Maximum: paleo-data synthesis

15 May, 2013

Southern Hemisphere westerly wind changes during the Last Glacial Maximum: model-data comparison

15 March, 2013

Sea surface temperature controls on warm climate water isotopes in Greenland ice cores

1 March, 2013

Lake highstands in the Pensacola Mountains and Shackleton Range 4300-2250 cal. yr BP: Evidence of a warm climate anomaly in the interior of Antarctica

1 March, 2013

Dating and synchronizing paleoclimatic records over the last interglacial

1 March, 2013

Sea ice in the paleoclimate system. 1st Sea Ice Proxies (SIP) Working Group workshop, Montreal, Canada, 7-9 March 2012

1 March, 2013

The 4th PAGES Past Interglacials Workshop. Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, Uk, 2-5 July 2012

1 March, 2013

Differing source water inputs, moderated by evaporative enrichment, determine the contrasting δ18OCELLULOSE signals in maritime Antarctic moss peat banks

1 March, 2013

A problematical belemnite from the Lower Cretaceous of the Austral Basin, Patagonia, Argentina

1 January, 1989

Origins and evolution of the Antarctic biota

1 January, 1989

Seismic stratigraphy of the Antarctic Peninsula Pacific margin: A record of Pliocene-Pleistocene ice volume and paleoclimate

1 January, 1989

New maps show why glacier ice front suddenly shrank

15 June, 2018

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. …

New map reveals landscape beneath Greenland’s ice sheet

14 December, 2017

A new map of what lies beneath the Greenland Ice Sheet is published this week (Thursday 14 December 2017). By providing scientists with the most comprehensive, high resolution and accurate …

Study shows ice sheet loss over the last 11,000 years

5 July, 2017

Reporting this week (Wednesday 5 July) in the journal Nature, an international team of researchers led by British Antarctic Survey (BAS) explains that wind-driven incursions of warm water forced the …

Team discovers sub-glacial lake from over 20,000 years ago

20 June, 2017

Researchers have provided new evidence that large sub-glacial lakes existed under the West Antarctic Ice Sheet during the last glacial period – around 20,000 years ago – a period when …

Raising Horizons: Portraits of women in science

2 March, 2017

BAS Director features in photographic portraits of women in science

NEWS STORY: BAS at leading fossil festival

1 April, 2015

British Antarctic Survey exhibits at Lyme Regis Fossil Festival Staff from British Antarctic Survey (BAS) are displaying some amazing Antarctic fossil and biological collections at the Lyme Regis Fossil Festival …