BAS Science Strategy Executive Group

The responsibility of Science Strategy Executive Group is to provide oversight and strategic direction for the BAS Science Directorate. In particular, to focus on issues that affect the long-term delivery of a world-class, sustainable science programme.

Specific responsibilities of SSEG are to:

  • work collegiately to deliver solutions to strategic issues for the benefit of all BAS Science and the organisation as a whole;
  • take responsibility to develop, implement, and maintain a science strategy that keeps BAS at the forefront of polar science, meeting the current NERC science strategy and delivering the BAS Vision;
  • ensure the delivery of the BAS science programme, assessing progress, and ensuring excellent scientific outcomes;
  • ensure that BAS leads and participates in scientific initiatives that lead to major advances in knowledge and expertise;
  • foster a vibrant and fertile intellectual environment within BAS, in which all scientists are challenged to develop bold and exciting scientific ideas, and to develop their personal and professional skills;
  • identify opportunities and ensure innovation, beneficial contact with stakeholders, and maximise the impact of BAS Science;
  • identify and initiate opportunities to maintain and increase funding within BAS Science, and maintain a sustainable funding plan;
  • agree any changes or adjustments required to ensure the sustainable funding and overall delivery of crucial science activities;
  • monitor performance of BAS’s science portfolio, and ensure its scientists perform in line with the expectations of BAS and NERC, highlighting and praising excellence, and where required, implementing measures to improve performance;
  • identify, and seek to overcome, impediments to scientific progress; reporting those that cannot be overcome to the BAS Executive.

Chair: Dr Anna Jones, Director of Science

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Dominic Hodgson

Senior Sediment Scientist IMP 3

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Richard Horne

Science Leader - IMP 1

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Michael Meredith

Science Leader IMP 2

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Anna Jones

Director of Science

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Alistair Crame

Science Leader

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Lloyd Peck

Physiologist Adaptations Lea IMP 2

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Beatrix Schlarb-Ridley

Director of Innovations and Impact

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Mags Clark

Head of Future Financial Strategy

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Martin Collins

Ecosystem CCAMLR Lead Scientist

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Louise Sime

IDP Science Leader IMP 3

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Tracy Moffat-Griffin

Science Leader

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Geraint Tarling

Science Leader IMP 3

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Scott Hosking

Environmental Data Scientist

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Martin Rogers

- Machine Learning Research Scientist

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Mervyn Freeman

Science Leader


BAS wins National Capability Funding

12 September, 2018

The British Antarctic Survey has been awarded National Capability funds for polar science which will strengthen UK national security, resilience, economic growth and societal benefit






Histopathological screening of Pontogammarus robustoides (Amphipoda), an invader on route to the United Kingdom

1 September, 2023 by Martin Rogers

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Unsupervised machine learning detection of iceberg populations within sea ice from dual-polarisation SAR imagery

1 September, 2023 by Andrew Fleming, Anita Faul, Ben Evans, David Vaughan, Scott Hosking

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Separating contributions to plasma vorticity in the high-latitude ionosphere from large-scale convection and meso-scale turbulence

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Measurements of ionospheric flow vorticity can be used for studying ionospheric plasma transport processes, such as convection and turbulence, over a wide range of spatial scales. Here, we analyse probability…

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Using Probabilistic Machine Learning to Better Model Temporal Patterns in Parameterizations: a case study with the Lorenz 96 model

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The modelling of small-scale processes is a major source of error in climate models, hindering the accuracy of low-cost models which must approximate such processes through parameterization. Red noise is…

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Carbon budgets of Scotia Sea mesopelagic zooplankton and micronekton communities during austral spring

1 August, 2023 by Anna Belcher, Geraint Tarling, Gabriele Stowasser, Ryan Saunders, Sophie Fielding

Zooplankton form an integral component of epi- and mesopelagic ecosystems, and there is a need to better understand their role in ocean biogeochemistry. The export and remineralisation of particulate organic…

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A New Four‐Component L*‐Dependent Model for Radial Diffusion Based on Solar Wind and Magnetospheric Drivers of ULF Waves

19 July, 2023 by Richard Horne, Sarah Glauert, Thomas Daggitt

The outer radiation belt is a region of space comprising highly energetic electrons. During periods of extreme space weather, the number and energy of these electrons can rapidly vary. During…

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Finale: Impact of the ORCHESTRA/ENCORE programmes on Southern Ocean heat and carbon understanding

26 June, 2023 by Alexandra Weiss, Andrew Meijers, Dave Munday, Dani Jones, Emma Boland, Povl Abrahamsen, Alexander Brearley, Michael Meredith, Shenjie Zhou

The 5-year Ocean Regulation of Climate by Heat and Carbon Sequestration and Transports (ORCHESTRA) programme and its 1-year extension ENCORE (ENCORE is the National Capability ORCHESTRA Extension) was an approximately…

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