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 …
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]
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…
Late glacial and Holocene glacial and palaeolake history of the Última Esperanza region of Southern Patagonia
29 March, 2022 by Alexander Whittle, Dominic Hodgson, Stephen Roberts
We undertook multi-proxy analyses on two sediment cores from Lago Pato, a small lake basin at 51°S topographically separated from Lago del Toro in Torres del Paine (TdP), to provide…
Summer sea-ice variability on the Antarctic margin during the last glacial period reconstructed from snow petrel (Pagodroma nivea) stomach-oil deposits
2 March, 2022 by Dominic Hodgson, Louise Sime, Richard Phillips
Antarctic sea ice is a critical component of the climate system affecting a range of physical and biogeochemical feedbacks and supporting unique ecosystems. During the last glacial stage, Antarctic sea…Latitude, elevation, and mean annual temperature predict peat organic matter chemistry at a global scale
13 February, 2022 by Dominic Hodgson, Peter Convey
Peatlands contain a significant fraction of global soil carbon, but how these reservoirs will respond to the changing climate is still relatively unknown. A global picture of the variations in…Northward shift of the southern westerlies during the Antarctic Cold Reversal
1 November, 2021 by Dominic Hodgson
Inter-hemispheric asynchrony of climate change through the last deglaciation has been theoretically linked to latitudinal shifts in the southern westerlies via their influence over CO2 out-gassing from the Southern Ocean.…Read more on Northward shift of the southern westerlies during the Antarctic Cold Reversal
Editorial: ‘No continent is immune, including Antarctica’, but National Antarctic Programmes acted collectively to avert disaster
1 October, 2021 by Jane Francis
The global reach of the COVID-19 pandemic threatened Antarctic activities, even though the continent is isolated and remote. Members of the Council of Managers of National Antarctic Programs (COMNAP) quickly…Past Antarctic ice sheet dynamics (PAIS) and implications for future sea-level change
1 October, 2021 by Dominic Hodgson, Fausto Ferraccioli, Claus-Dieter Hillenbrand, Lara Perez Miguel, Richard Hindmarsh, Robert Larter, Richard Hindmarsh
The legacy of the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research’s (SCAR) PAIS strategic research programme includes not only breakthrough scientific discoveries, but it is also the story of a long-standing deep…Read more on Past Antarctic ice sheet dynamics (PAIS) and implications for future sea-level change
The Eocene-Oligocene boundary climate transition: an Antarctic perspective
1 October, 2021 by Jane Francis
Antarctica underwent a complex evolution over the course of the Cenozoic, which influenced the history of the Earth’s climate system. The Eocene-Oligocene boundary is a divide of this history when…Read more on The Eocene-Oligocene boundary climate transition: an Antarctic perspective
Extinction of austral diatoms in response to large-scale climate dynamics in Antarctica
15 September, 2021 by Bianca Perren, Dominic Hodgson
Despite evidence for microbial endemism, an understanding of the impact of geological and paleoclimate events on the evolution of regional protist communities remains elusive. Here, we provide insights into the…Read more on Extinction of austral diatoms in response to large-scale climate dynamics in Antarctica
A new percussion hammer mechanism for a borehole deployable subglacial sediment corer
1 September, 2021 by Andy Smith, Dominic Hodgson, Daniel Ashurst, James Smith, Keith Makinson, Paul Anker, Peter Davis
Subglacial sediments have the potential to reveal information about the controls on glacier flow, changes in ice-sheet history and characterise life in those environments. Retrieving sediments from beneath the ice,…Read more on A new percussion hammer mechanism for a borehole deployable subglacial sediment corer
Ice stream subglacial access for ice sheet history and fast ice flow: The BEAMISH Project on Rutford Ice Stream, West Antarctica and initial results on basal conditions
1 September, 2021 by Alex Brisbourne, Andy Smith, Dominic Hodgson, Keith Makinson, Keith Nicholls, Paul Anker
Three holes were drilled to the bed of Rutford Ice Stream, through ice up to 2154 m thick, to investigate the basal processes and conditions associated with fast ice flow…
