Ever wondered how life can exist in extremely cold environments?❄️ Researchers have announced a new interdisciplinary research project to develop novel microscopy techniques to observe living cells at subzero temperatures. ➡️https://ow.ly/zN4U50Tcs4T
British Antarctic Survey
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Uncovering the secrets of the polar regions and doing science for a sustainable planet.
About us
Uncovering the secrets of Earth’s frozen places, from the depths of the oceans to the inner edge of space: British Antarctic Survey staff have been living and working in the extremes of Antarctica and the Arctic for over 60 years. What happens in Antarctica doesn't stay in Antarctica. Our planet’s frozen regions are changing in ways that impact the entire planet, and at a rate and scale we haven't seen before. We're working to understand why, what this means for the inhabitants of Earth, and what we can do about it.
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https://www.bas.ac.uk/
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- Research Services
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- 201-500 employees
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- Cambridge, Cambs
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- Government Agency
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- 1962
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- exploration, research, polar research , and polar regions
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Coming to you live from the UK Research Station in Ny-Ålesund, Carbon Brief are presenting a free webinar about the Arctic! ❄️ 🔔 It’s this Friday 30 August at 10am. There’s still time to register and submit your questions! #webinar #climatescience #Arctic Dorothea Moser Daisy Dunne
Carbon Brief’s associate editor, Daisy Dunne, is hosting a free webinar live from the Arctic on Friday 30 August. Register for the webinar to hear more from Daisy and the scientists about their expedition ⬇️ https://buff.ly/4fXWMbn Time: 10am (BST) Daisy will be joined by Dorothea Moser, ice cores scientist at the British Antarctic Survey, @Henry Burgess, head of the Arctic Office, and other Arctic scientists to be confirmed. Questions for the speakers can be submitted in advance by email via [email protected], or via Twitter using the hashtag #CBWebinar.
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Why did scientists launch a NASA rocket into space from the Arctic? Their quest was to measure a planet-wide electric field thought to be as fundamental to Earth as its gravity and magnetic fields. And guess what, they did so successfully. Known as the ambipolar electric field, scientists first hypothesized over 60 years ago that it drove how our planet’s atmosphere can escape above Earth’s North and South Poles. Measurements from a suborbital rocket, NASA’s Endurance mission, have confirmed the existence of the ambipolar field and quantified its strength, revealing its role in driving atmospheric escape and shaping our ionosphere — a layer of the upper atmosphere — more broadly. Understanding the complex movements — as well as evolution — of our planet’s atmosphere provides clues not only to the history of Earth but also gives us insight into the mysteries of other planets and determining which ones might be hospitable to life. The study and its results were published today in the journal Nature. Find out what they did: https://lnkd.in/dSGVeyyg
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Do you have 10-15 minutes to help us make our website easier to use? 🙏 If you’ve been on our current website you’ll know it’s a real labyrinth. But - great news! We’re building a new one. We’re working on a new and simpler structure, and we want to know how people (you) actually try to find things on our website. During the quiz we’ll ask you to show us where you would look for particular pieces of information. There’s no right or wrong answers! Take the quiz here ⬇️ https://lnkd.in/ex6YpGwa Thank you! 💙
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Coming to you live from the UK Research Station in Ny-Ålesund, Carbon Brief are presenting a free webinar about the Arctic! ❄️ 🔔 It’s this Friday 30 August at 10am. There’s still time to register and submit your questions! #webinar #climatescience #Arctic Dorothea Moser Daisy Dunne
Carbon Brief’s associate editor, Daisy Dunne, is hosting a free webinar live from the Arctic on Friday 30 August. Register for the webinar to hear more from Daisy and the scientists about their expedition ⬇️ https://buff.ly/4fXWMbn Time: 10am (BST) Daisy will be joined by Dorothea Moser, ice cores scientist at the British Antarctic Survey, @Henry Burgess, head of the Arctic Office, and other Arctic scientists to be confirmed. Questions for the speakers can be submitted in advance by email via [email protected], or via Twitter using the hashtag #CBWebinar.
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Story or statistics? Urgency or alarmism? Top line or deep dive? 📣 Three climate scientists talk about communicating climate change to the public. This month's issue of Beyond the Ice is a podcast discussion, chaired by Tom Sheldon from the Science Media Centre, with Professor Dame Jane Francis, Dr Emma Boland and Dr Ella Gilbert. From describing their dream documentary series to the nitty gritty of what language to use, the group share their opinions and what they've learned about communicating this urgent topic ⬇️ #sciencecommunication #scicomms #climatechange #climatescience
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The hottest tickets in town have just been made available (and it's not the Eras tour tickets!)... You can now book your ticket for the UK Antarctic Science Conference 2024! This is a chance to get together with other UK-based Antarctic researchers, find out more about the latest research and talk about everyone's favourite subject - Antarctica. The event will include keynote talks, short talks and posters, updates on the coming season and future plans, as well as science communications. Find out more here: https://ow.ly/MaIK50T25L9 📅 9-11 September 2024 📍 BAS, Cambridge *unrelated pic because we 💗 seals
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Story or statistics? Urgency or alarmism? Top line or deep dive? 📣 Three climate scientists talk about communicating climate change to the public. This month's issue of Beyond the Ice is a podcast discussion, chaired by Tom Sheldon from the Science Media Centre, with Professor Dame Jane Francis, Dr Emma Boland and Dr Ella Gilbert. From describing their dream documentary series to the nitty gritty of what language to use, the group share their opinions and what they've learned about communicating this urgent topic ⬇️ #sciencecommunication #scicomms #climatechange #climatescience
When scientists talk about the climate
British Antarctic Survey on LinkedIn
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A chilly look at the reality of staying productive and connected through the winter at King Edward Point Research Station, on the sub-Antarctic island of South Georgia! Really interesting to see the experience Louis Day brings to the job of keeping boating safe and operational ⬇️ #southgeorgia #marineengineering #marinescience
After a few weeks of cold temperatures King Edward Cove is almost completely frozen with the ice over 6/7 inches thick in places. Every time we need to use the boats we now have to break our way out through the ice into clear water! These harbour launches weight nearly 9 tonnes, so we use the twin 315hp engines to drive the boat up onto the ice and use their weight to break down through. Sometimes, if we reach a particularly thick spot, we need a bit of a run up to help break the ice… as you can see! The engines are not keen on the icy water and the coolant system gets regularly blocked (even with the ‘ice flushing system’ I mentioned in a previous post). So we regularly have to switch off the engines and empty the sea strainers which become fully clogged with ice (which is the alarm you can hear going off at the end of the video!). There’s certainly no such thing as a ‘quick trip’ down here this time of year! . . . #southgeorgia #antarctica #highlatitudeboating #coxswain #marineengineering