British Antarctic Survey 🐧
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- Ever witnessed a robbery in slow motion? Scientists have spotted an Antarctic glacier committing "ice piracy" – stealing ice from its neighbour. It's done it in just 18 years, not the centuries that was previously thought possible...
- Reposted by British Antarctic Survey 🐧🦐 Dr Sophie Fielding, Zooplankton Ecologist at @bas.ac.uk joins @helenczerski.bsky.social this week to discuss 👇🏾 🌊 The current status of UK marine research infrastructure 🌊 How we think about trade-offs when designing marine technology for the future 🎧 Listen www.fmri.ac.uk/podcasts #FMRIpodcast
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- The discovery of the ozone hole sparked the most successful environmental movement the world has ever seen 🎉 40 years later, we’ve partnered with the Royal Geographical Society for an evening of talks - including from BAS legend Jon Shanklin. It's on Tuesday. And it's free! rgs.org/ozone
- Great news: the PRESCIENT programme got going today. This investment in data collection in the polar regions underpins the UK's world-leading polar science, which in turn shapes global policy + planning It's funded by NERC’s National Capability and National Public Good funds - both accurate titles
- Spotted! 🔍 Dr Alison Cleary, molecular ecologist at British Antarctic Survey, is on this EU science podcast. This episode discusses if and how science-based conservation can halt the decline of biodiversity from climate change and human encroachment. 🎧 www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPcY...
- Get 6 May in the diary! ⏰ Come spend the evening with three ozone experts - including BAS legend Jon Shanklin, who discovered the ozone hole over Antarctica 40 years ago. 7-8.30pm, 6 May 2025 In person: Royal Geographical Society, London Online: register to access the live stream www.rgs.org/ozone
- The Penguin Book of Penguins! Coming later this year: a beautifully illustrated book about the world’s most beloved bird, written by British Antarctic Survey’s Peter Fretwell @ptfretwell.bsky.social What better day to reveal the cover the #WorldPenguinDay? ⬇️
- Happy #WorldPenguinDay! 🐧🪶 Today we’re celebrating our favourite Antarctic co-workers. From curious onlookers near our research stations to the subjects of vital ecosystems studies, these charismatic birds are the true icons of Antarctica.
- Grab a coffee and find out how 18,000 years ago you might have spotted megabergs off the coast of the UK!
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- Why is Antarctica so important? Antarctica might feel very remote - until you look at the planet from a different perspective. It's actually central to our world's ocean currents. 🎁 Check the alt text to dig into this diagram 🌊 This is from a new book by BAS' @oceanandice.bsky.social (et al.)
- 🔗 To find out more and get your copy visit routledge.com/Antarctica-and-the-Earth-System/Meredith-Melbourne-Thomas-NaveiraGarabato-Raphael/p/book/9781032500867
- 🌍 This #EarthDay we’re celebrating the launch of Antarctica and the Earth System, co-edited by BAS’s @oceanandice.bsky.social Discover how polar science connects to global climate change❄️📘 📸Dave Wattam
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- Oh, but now we really want a fancy blue tick. Blue is our whole look. We think we'd look great in it.
- "It's like driving inside a ping pong ball!" 🏓 Meet Nick and Rory from the Tractor Train Traverse team: a hardy crew who drive supplies and fuel huge distances across the frozen wilderness to help scientists work in deep field Antarctica. 🔗 Search ICEWORLD on your favourite podcast app.
- Many of the world’s albatross species are under threat—and the Tristan albatross is no exception. These critically endangered seabirds nest almost exclusively on Gough Island, in the South Atlantic. 📸Christopher Jones
- Antarctica, January 2025. Three expert teams are making their way across the stark frozen landscape, by sea, land and air - and they are planning to meet. Grab a coffee and settle in for this month's epic BAS Long Read ⬇️ tinyurl.com/52b3nuau
- "In daily life I meet people who ask me if the Arctic is actually changing," says Iain Rudkin, Arctic Operations Manager for the British Antarctic Survey. "I wish they could see how much it's lost so quickly." www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic...
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- Do you love Professor Hannah Fry? Do you use fridges? Do you hate having a hole in Earth's ozone layer? 📣 Well, huge news: Tonight's episode of The Secret Genius of Modern Life (about fridges) on BBC Two features BAS scientist Jonathan Shanklin, who discovered the Ozone Hole above Antarctica.
- For doctors dreaming of an adventure: how about being deployed for a season to Antarctica? We chatted to Dr Nisha Mistry (now on RRS Sir David Attenborough) and Dr Becky Boys (was at Rothera Research Station) about practising medicine in the frozen South. 🎧 ICEWORLD podcast: tinyurl.com/5xw4t3kd
- Scientists sent this glider to explore around a huge iceberg 🌊 For the first time, they saw the dramatic changes the berg's meltwater made to the ocean, up close. Iceberg calving is a natural process - but these results will help us understand the climate impact of more frequent calving... 🧵 1/7
