NEWS STORY: 2nd award for BAS manager
5 February, 2015
Long serving BAS manager awarded second honour Mike Pinnock, one of the British Antarctic Survey’s longest serving managers, has been awarded a Second Clasp by HM The Queen. The Second …
BAS Management team
The Business Management Team is responsible for corporate and operational decision-making. Members advise and support the Director and helps provide the overall leadership, direction and management of the Survey to achieve its mission.
Terms of Reference
- Develop, update and communicate BAS strategy to ensure effective development of BAS into the future
- Ensure strategies are in place for world class, high quality science with maximum impact
- Develop strategies to ensure that operations, infrastructure, facilities, collaboration and capabilities can deliver the BAS mission
- Encourage and facilitate appropriate business links for the commercial exploitation of BAS research and technical innovation
- Ensure the proper management of BAS and its finances, in a manner that is open, provides value for money and ensures a sustainable future
- Foster and develop a skilled and adaptable workforce that can meet future challenges
- Ensure that BAS operates in a safe & healthy manner and with the minimum-practicable environmental impact
- Ensure that BAS communicates its work and engages with the wider scientific community, decision-makers, and the general public
NEWS STORY: BAS’ new Director appointed
21 March, 2013
Professor Jane Francis has been appointed as the new Director of the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) Chief Executive of the Natural Environment Research Council, Duncan Wingham said, “I am delighted …
NEWS STORY: Consultation on merger proposal
11 September, 2012
NERC consultation on proposal to merge BAS and National Oceanography Centre (NOC) The Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) is undertaking a consultation exercise on a proposal to merge two of …
NEWS STORY: Merger plans for centres
7 June, 2012
Governing body considers combined management of polar and marine science The Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) is considering a merger of the scientific and logistics management of marine and polar …
Polar lake microbiomes have distinct evolutionary histories
17 November, 2023 by Dominic Hodgson
Toward the poles, life on land is increasingly dominated by microorganisms, yet the evolutionary origin of polar microbiomes remains poorly understood. Here, we use metabarcoding of Arctic, sub-Antarctic, and Antarctic…Read more on Polar lake microbiomes have distinct evolutionary histories
Sequence stratigraphy of a wave-dominated, tidally influenced delta in the Danian of Seymour Island, Antarctica: An integrated sedimentological–palaeoecological approach
1 November, 2023 by Alistair Crame, Jane Francis, Rowan Whittle, Vanessa Bowman
Lower Paleocene marine siliciclastics of the Sobral Formation (Seymour Island, Antarctica) form an important component of a key southern high latitude reference section for the Maastrichtian–Eocene. The formation comprises a…Southern limit of the Patagonian Ice Sheet
25 October, 2023 by Bianca Perren, Dominic Hodgson, Stephen Roberts
The southern limit of the Patagonian Ice Sheet at glacial maxima is poorly constrained due to a paucity of field data. This particularly applies to southern outlet glaciers of the…Simultaneous organic aerosol source apportionment at two Antarctic sites reveals large-scale and eco-region specific components [preprint]
17 October, 2023 by Anna Jones, Thomas Lachlan-Cope
Antarctica and the Southern Ocean are the most pristine areas of the globe and represent ideal places to investigate aerosol-climate interactions in an unperturbed atmosphere. In this study, we present…Palaeocene high-latitude leaf flora of Antarctica Part 2: Tooth-margined angiosperms
1 July, 2023 by Jane Francis
The late Palaeocene (Thanetian) Cross Valley Formation on Seymour Island is one of the few floras of this age in Antarctica. Understanding the diversity is critical for comparisons with coeval…Read more on Palaeocene high-latitude leaf flora of Antarctica Part 2: Tooth-margined angiosperms
Late Cenozoic evolution of the latitudinal diversity gradient
1 July, 2023 by Alistair Crame
The Late Cenozoic flourishing of polar marine ecosystems, just when temperatures were reaching their lowest levels, has always seemed anomalous. Such an observation is coupled with an increasing volume of…Read more on Late Cenozoic evolution of the latitudinal diversity gradient
Viability of chemical and water isotope ratio measurements of RAID ice chippings from Antarctica
1 June, 2023 by Dieter Tetzner, Julius Rix, Robert Mulvaney
The British Antarctic Survey's (BAS) Rapid Access Isotope Drill (RAID), designed for rapid drilling to survey prospective ice core sites, has been deployed at multiple Antarctic locations over 6 years.…Holocene deglaciation and glacier readvances on the Fildes Peninsula and King George Island (Isla 25 de Mayo), South Shetland Islands, NW Antarctic Peninsula
1 June, 2023 by Dominic Hodgson, Stephen Roberts
To provide insights into glacier-climate dynamics of the South Shetland Islands (SSI), NW Antarctic Peninsula, we present a new deglaciation and readvance model for the Bellingshausen Ice Cap (BIC) on…Snowpack nitrate photolysis drives the summertime atmospheric nitrous acid (HONO) budget in coastal Antarctica
17 May, 2023 by Anna Jones, Millie Bond, Freya Squires, Markus Frey
Measurements of atmospheric nitrous acid (HONO) amount fraction and flux density above snow were carried out using a long-path absorption photometer at Halley station in coastal Antarctica between 22 Jan-…Drainage and refill of an Antarctic Peninsula subglacial lake reveal an active subglacial hydrological network
30 November, 2022 by Dominic Hodgson, Peter Fretwell, Tom Jordan, Teal Riley
The presence of subglacial lakes and subglacial hydrological networks under the East and West Antarctic ice sheets is now relatively well understood, whilst their influence on ice dynamics is the…
Snow petrel stomach-oil deposits as a new biological archive of Antarctic sea ice
1 October, 2022 by Dominic Hodgson, Louise Sime, Richard Phillips
Where snow petrels forage is predominantly a function of sea ice. They spit stomach oil in defence, and accumulated deposits at nesting sites are providing new opportunities to reconstruct their…Read more on Snow petrel stomach-oil deposits as a new biological archive of Antarctic sea ice
Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) Medals and Awards celebration 2022 [Speech]
1 September, 2022 by Jane Francis
The Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) annual Medals and Awards recognise achievements in researching, communicating and teaching a wide range of geographical knowledge. The speeches and citations are a record…Read more on Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) Medals and Awards celebration 2022 [Speech]
Understanding Sources and Drivers of Size-Resolved Aerosol in the High Arctic Islands of Svalbard Using a Receptor Model Coupled with Machine Learning
16 August, 2022 by Amelie Kirchgaessner, Anna Jones
Atmospheric aerosols are important drivers of Arctic climate change through aerosol–cloud–climate interactions. However, large uncertainties remain on the sources and processes controlling particle numbers in both fine and coarse modes.…A late glacial-Holocene record of Southern Hemisphere westerly wind dynamics from the Falkland Islands, South Atlantic
1 August, 2022 by Dominic Hodgson
The Southern Hemisphere westerly wind belt (SHWW) is a major feature of Southern Hemisphere, midlatitude climate that is closely linked with the sequestration and release of CO2 in the Southern…Very large fluxes of methane measured above Bolivian seasonal wetlands
1 August, 2022 by Anna Jones, James France, Thomas Lachlan-Cope
Methane (CH4) mole fractions from the large semiseasonal Llanos de Moxos wetlands (∼70,000 km2) in northern Bolivia were measured by aircraft flights and ground sampling during early March 2019 (late…Read more on Very large fluxes of methane measured above Bolivian seasonal wetlands
Increasing Accumulation of Perfluorocarboxylate Contaminants Revealed in an Antarctic Firn Core (1958–2017)
26 July, 2022 by Anna Jones, Markus Frey, Robert Mulvaney, Holly Winton
Perfluoroalkyl acids (PFAAs) are synthetic chemicals with a variety of industrial and consumer applications that are now widely distributed in the global environment. Here, we report the measurement of six…
