http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/south/iod/rss.php News and press releases from the British Antarctic Survey http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/ http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/Images/baslogo.gif 300 70 en-uk Sun, 21 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT MakeSite Content Management System http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/about_bas/news/news_story.php?id=1149 http://blog.antarctica.ac.uk/rrs_ernest_shackleton/2010/02/15/weddell-sea-wanderings/ News Story Thu, 25 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/press/press_releases/press_release.php?id=1139 Antarctic marine life Basket Star Click the image for a higher resolution version Brittle Stars Click the image for a higher resolution version Feather Star Click the image for a higher resolution version Ice Fish Click the image for a higher resolution version Isopod Crustacean Click the image for a higher re... Press Release Thu, 18 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/about_bas/news/news_story.php?id=1138 There is a distinctly cosmopolitan feel around British Antarctic Survey’s Rothera Research Station this month (February). Science teams from eight countries enjoyed Rothera’s hospitality as they passed through on their way home after months working deep field. At one point there were seven Borek aircraft — operated on behalf of three national Antarctic programmes — parked... News Story Tue, 16 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/about_bas/news/news_story.php?id=1130 Captain J R Harper The Polar Medal was awarded to three members of staff in the Queen’s New Year’s Honours List. Congratulations go to Geophysicist Rob Larter, Chief Pilot Alan Meredith and former Personnel Officer Richard Hanson. Captain John Harper, Master of RRS Ernest Shackleton, has been awarded the Merchant Navy Medal “For services to polar exploration, especially ice na... News Story Mon, 08 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/about_bas/news/news_story.php?id=1131 Antarctic sea ice The open first meeting of the EC Framework 7-funded research programme ice2sea takes place in Krakow, Poland on the 17th & 18th March.  A five-year project, involving scientists from 24 institutions across Europe, ice2sea features studies of key glacial processes in Greenland and Antarctica, improved interpretation of satellite information about current changes to ic... News Story Mon, 08 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/about_bas/news/news_story.php?id=1132 The British Antarctic Survey's research ship RRS James Clark Ross makes regular use of Polar View As the Antarctic field season continues with the usual mix of exciting research programmes new enhancements to the online satellite image system that improves ship safety and efficiency are launched. The Polar View sea ice service, coordinated by the British Antarctic Survey, has greatly improved ... News Story Mon, 08 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/press/press_releases/press_release.php?id=1114 New information on bird migration is revealed by an international team of scientists who have confirmed that the Arctic tern flies more than 70,000 km on its annual migration trip from pole to pole — the equivalent of three trips to the moon and back over its lifetime. Scientists from British Antarctic Survey (BAS), Greenland, Denmark, the United States and Iceland, successfully mapped the ... Press Release Tue, 12 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/press/press_releases/press_release.php?id=1112 Results from the first detailed analysis of the lowest ever temperature recorded on the Earth’s surface can explain why it got so cold and how cold it could possibly get. During the Antarctic winter of 1983 (July) temperatures plunged to a record-breaking −89.2°C at the Russian Vostok research station — more than 30°C lower than the average winter temperature. Until this... Press Release Mon, 11 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/about_bas/news/news_story.php?id=1133 Theory and observations of a combined Ekman and geostrophic trajectory in the chlorophyll distribution downstream of South Georgia Due to its remoteness from the continents, plant growth in the Southern Ocean is limited by iron supply, which arrives as dust or from continental margins. Certain sub-Antarctic islands, namely South Georgia, Crozet and Kerguelen Islands, release iron into the ocean... News Story Thu, 31 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/about_bas/news/news_story.php?id=1121 Changes in the proportion of different types of atoms of the same chemical element, or isotope, in Antarctic ice cores record temperature. When it’s cold, water made with the heavy version of hydrogen — deuterium — falls out of the sky as snow sooner than water made with normal hydrogen, because it’s heavier than normal water. Previously scientists have assumed that snowfal... News Story Thu, 24 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/about_bas/news/news_story.php?id=1111 Scientists from BAS and the Space Weather Prediction Center in Boulder, Colorado, have shown that high energy charged particles that are usually trapped in the Earth’s magnetic field are released into the atmosphere at different locations during geomagnetic storms. The results will help to refine models of atmospheric chemistry and climate. This paper describes how nine years of data from l... News Story Wed, 23 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/about_bas/news/news_story.php?id=1094 The most comprehensive picture of the rapidly thinning glaciers along the coastline of both the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets has been created using satellite lasers. The findings are an important step forward in the quest to make more accurate predictions for future sea-level rise. The analysis of millions of NASA satellite measurements from both of these vast ice sheets shows that the most ... News Story Tue, 22 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/about_bas/news/news_story.php?id=1090 Antarctic marine life Isopod Crustacean, Antarcturus sp. - This group of animals (which woodlice on land belong to) are very rich in the Southern Ocean, particularly in deeper water. Antarcturus tend to hang off seaweed, sponges or (as here) sea fans to catch tiny plankton in the water. Click the image for a higher resolution version Unknown soft coral... News Story Thu, 17 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/about_bas/news/news_story.php?id=1086 The discovery, in both the Arctic and Antarctic polar spring, of events of almost complete ozone removal from the lowest levels of the atmosphere has spawned an entire new scientific topic. The phenomenon is of interest in itself, but it has led on to related discoveries about the role of halogens (especially bromine) as oxidants, and connections to sea salt aerosol, mercury deposition, and many o... News Story Mon, 14 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/press/press_releases/press_release.php?id=1080 ISBAO Picture Gallery L - R: Guy Lachlan (CEO of British Business and General Aviation Association), Professor Nicholas Owens (BAS Director), Iain Tulloch (Auditor, IBAC) Click the image for a higher resolution version BAS Dash 7 overflies Rothera Research Station on Adelaide Island, Antarctica Click the image for a higher resolution version A g... 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