Information Services team

The Information Services group consists of the Archives Service, the BAS Library, the Polar Data Centre (PDC) and the Web and Applications team. These teams are jointly responsible for the management of over 70 years worth of scientific and corporate data and information.

The overarching aim of the group is to make data and information available and accessible to anyone who wishes to reuse it.

The component teams all have their own specific remits and aims and they can be seen in the links in the sidebar.

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Beverley Ager

Library Services Manager

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Timothy Barnes

Data Manager

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Paul Breen

Data Manager

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Katy Buckland

Scientific Data Coordinator

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Alysa Fisher

Scientific Data Manager (Biological Focus)

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Alice Fremand

Scientific Data Manager, Geophysics

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Ieuan Hopkins

Archives Records and Information Compliance Manager

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Samantha Hughes

Assistant Librarian (NLS)

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Peter Kirsch

Data Manager

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Claudette Lopez

Marine Sensor Data Manager

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Helen Peat

Head of Polar Data Centre

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Guy Phillips

Web Systems Developer

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Beatrix Schlarb-Ridley

Director of Innovations and Impact

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Alex Tataran

Archivist and Records Officer

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Alexander Tate

Senior Data and Systems Architect

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Petra ten Hoopen

Marine Data Manager

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Mari Whitelaw

Scientific Data Manager (Biological Focus)

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Jason White

Web Applications Developer

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Gaurav Kulkarni

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Charles Thorpe-Morgan

Scientific Data Manager Stable Isotopes

BIOPOLE: biogeochemical processes and ecosystem functioning in changing polar systems and their global impacts

3 September, 2025 by Aidan Hunter, Amanda Burson, Andrew Meijers, Anna Belcher, Clara Manno, Dave Munday, Elaina Ford, Emma Boland, Povl Abrahamsen, Emma Young, Geraint Tarling, Gabriele Stowasser, Huw Griffiths, Hugh Venables, Alexander Brearley, Jennifer Freer, Jessica Richt, Kate Hendry, Katrin Linse, Laura Taylor, Madeline Anderson, Michael Meredith, Nadine Johnston, Petra ten Hoopen, Rachael Sanders, Ruta Hamilton, Ryan Saunders, Sarah Coombs, Sally Thorpe, Simeon Hill, Sophie Fielding

The export of elements (particularly carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus) from the Poles critically supports global marine biodiversity and major fisheries as well as the sequestration of atmospheric carbon to the…

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First island-wide, single-day soil collection study on Crete reveals environmental drivers of microbial diversity

25 July, 2025 by Petra ten Hoopen

Understanding how environmental and ecological factors shape variability in soil-associated microbial communities is a complex problem, particularly on islands, which contain a wide range of diverse and unique geology, fauna,…

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Bedmap3 updated ice bed, surface and thickness gridded datasets for Antarctica

10 March, 2025 by Alice Fremand, Andy Smith, David Vaughan, Ed King, Elena Field, Fausto Ferraccioli, Hugh Corr, Hamish Pritchard, James Kirkham, Peter Fretwell, Richard Hindmarsh, Tom Jordan, Richard Hindmarsh

We present Bedmap3, the latest suite of gridded products describing surface elevation, ice-thickness and the seafloor and subglacial bed elevation of the Antarctic south of 60 °S. Bedmap3 incorporates and…

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Contributions to the development of the next-generation NERC Environmental Data Service: Building Interoperability – a NERC Data Commons RoadMap

1 November, 2024 by Alexander Tate, Alice Fremand, Helen Peat, James Byrne, Petra ten Hoopen

This is a final report from the work undertaken by the NERC Environmental Data Service (EDS) funded by the UKRI Digital Research Programme grant: EDS UKRI DRI Phase 1b. The…

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High-time-resolution analysis of meridional tides in the upper mesosphere and lower thermosphere at mid-latitudes measured by the Falkland Islands SuperDARN radar

2 February, 2024 by Andrew Kavanagh, Gareth Chisham, Neil Cobbett, Paul Breen, Timothy Barnes

Solar tides play a major role in the dynamics of the upper mesosphere and lower thermosphere (MLT). Hence, a comprehensive understanding of these tides is important for successful modelling of…

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Temperature variation in the South Orkney Islands, maritime Antarctic

30 December, 2023 by Andrew Orr, Emilia Dobb, Gareth Marshall, Guy Phillips, Hua Lu, John King, Sabina Kucieba, Steve Colwell, Tony Phillips

Meteorological records at Signy Station in the South Orkney Islands (SOIs) have recently been digitized to cover the period of 1947–1995. This study compares the newly available near-surface air temperatures…

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Antarctic Bedmap data: Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable (FAIR) sharing of 60 years of ice bed, surface, and thickness data

17 July, 2023 by Alice Fremand, Andy Smith, David Vaughan, Ed King, Elena Field, Fausto Ferraccioli, Hugh Corr, Hamish Pritchard, Peter Fretwell, Richard Hindmarsh, Tom Jordan, Richard Hindmarsh

One of the key components of this research has been the mapping of Antarctic bed topography and ice thickness parameters that are crucial for modelling ice flow and hence for…

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Sustained, year-round oceanographic measurements from Rothera Research Station, Antarctica, 1997-2017

10 May, 2023 by Andrew Clarke, Ali Massey, Alice Clement, Aurelia Reichardt, Emma Stuart, Emma Bolton, Terri Souster, Helen Peat, Hugh Venables, Hollie London, Kate Hendry, Mairi Fenton, Marlon Clark, Michael Meredith, Petra ten Hoopen, Ryan Mathews, Sabrina Heiser, Sarah Reed, Samuel Pountney, Terri Souster, Zoe Waring

Oceanographic changes adjacent to Antarctica have global climatic and ecological impacts. However, this is the most challenging place in the world to obtain marine data due to its remoteness and…

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A database of marine macronutrient, temperature and salinity measurements made around the highly productive island of South Georgia, the Scotia Sea and the Antarctic Peninsula between 1980 and 2009

12 January, 2023 by Geraint Tarling, Kate Hendry, Petra ten Hoopen, Sally Thorpe

We present a database from substantial collections of macronutrient data made on 20 oceanographic cruises, primarily from around the island of South Georgia and the Scotia Sea. This sector of…

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