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

Interim Director of Science

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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

Marine Ecologist and UKs CCAMLR Scientific Rep

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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






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Understanding and managing the response of marine ecosystems to human pressures including climate change requires reliable large-scale and multi-decadal information on the state of key populations. These populations include the…

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Southward migration of the zero-degree isotherm latitude over the Southern Ocean and the Antarctic Peninsula: cryospheric, biotic and societal implications

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The seasonal movement of the zero-degree isotherm across the Southern Ocean and Antarctic Peninsula drives major changes in the physical and biological processes around maritime Antarctica. These include spatial and…

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Assessing the trophic ecology of Southern Ocean Myctophidae: the added value of DNA metabarcoding

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Lanternfishes (Myctophidae) are key components of mesopelagic fish communities globally. In the Southern Ocean, incomplete information on myctophid diets limits our understanding of their energetics, interactions and wider ecosystem impact.…

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Patagonian toothfish (Dissostichus eleginoides) are a commercially important species that support a longline fishery at the subantarctic island of South Georgia (CCAMLR Subarea 48.3). Understanding the life history of Patagonian…

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