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You’ve heard about Antarctic sea ice lows - well, here’s the consequences.
Over 9,000 emperor penguin chicks from colonies in the Bellingshausen Sea are thought to have died in November 2022.
The sea ice they lived on broke up early, before they'd developed waterproof feathers.
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Brunt Ice Shelf calves along North Rift chasm - A 1270 km²
#iceberg
has broken off the
#BruntIceShelf
.
#HalleyVI
Research Station is closed for the winter and unlikely to be affected.
Full story:
📽️
#NorthRift
,
#Antarctica
, 16 Feb 2021,
@BAS_News
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A new iceberg the size of Greater London has calved from Antarctica's Brunt Ice Shelf.
Last night, the crack Chasm-1 fully extended through the 150m thick ice - a decade after BAS scientists first detected that cracks in the ice sheet were growing.
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It looks like climate models are under-predicting sea level rise, and scientists have been trying to work out why.
Now, new analysis by Dr Alex Bradley
@abraleey
may have identified the missing puzzle piece…
Buckle up for a 🧵⬇️
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Scientists thrilled but confused by world-first sighting of a polar bear in Antarctic 🐻❄️
The bear showed a peaceful attitude to local penguins.
Both species face an uncertain future as warming temperatures threaten sea ice habitats. Is this the start of a new polar partnership?
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We’re delighted to wish BAS’ Eric Bourne and Stephen Carpenter luck on their upcoming wedding which will be the first same-sex marriage in British Antarctic Territory. Their big day will mark a historic step for diversity and inclusion in polar science ❄️🏳️🌈
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“Loss of
#PineIsland
’s
#iceshelf
now looks like it possibly could occur in the next decade or two, as opposed to the melt-driven subsurface change playing out over 100 or more years. So it’s a potentially much more rapid and abrupt change.” Pierre Dutrieux
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Great to have
@elliegoulding
with us today finding out what ice cores tell us about
#climatechange
#Antarctica
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NEW satellite image of the huge iceberg that has calved off the Brunt Ice Shelf in
#Antarctica
shows a clear break. Image was acquired late Monday by Suomi/NPP VIIRS satellite courtesy of
@NASA
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Huge congratulations to Eric and Stephen who were married yesterday at BAS' Rothera Research Station 💒 This is the first same-sex wedding to take place in British Antarctic Territory 🏳️🌈
#polarpride
#diversityinukpolarscience
#PRIDE
#Antarctica
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Before and after 🤓
Here's a super sharp view of the vast new
#iceberg
breaking away from the Brunt Ice Shelf in
#Antarctica
.
📸 Sentinel-2
@CopernicusEU
& thanks to
@USGSLandsat
for the before shot from 20 Jan.
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What can ancient ice cores tell us?
@elliegoulding
at BAS ice labs to learn how ice gives us record of atmospheric CO2 over past 800,000 yrs
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Happy Birthday to the
#DuchessOfCambridge
, pictured here at the ceremonial naming of the
#RRSSirDavidAttenborough
.
The Duchess is the ship's Sponsor and named the ship in the traditional way of smashing a bottle of champagne against the hull of the ship! 🍾🚢
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Festive greetings from our all research stations in
#Antarctica
, this is the team at Halley 🎄
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About 20,000 species live in the ocean around Antarctica. But less than 1% of these are animals like penguins, seals, whales and albatrosses. Images in this graphic are from BAS expeditions exploring
#Antarctic
biodiversity, as deep as 3.5 km underwater! 📷
@griffiths_huw
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“To see this magnificent hull with my name on it is the greatest possible honour “ says Sir David Attenborough at new
#PolarShip
hull launch
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What a year! For the next 12 days, we're posting daily photos summing up 2022 at the British Antarctic Survey
To get us started, here's RRS Sir David Attenborough, which completed its ice trials during its maiden voyage to Antarctica.
📸 Jenna Plank
#12DaysOfBASmas
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The RRS Sir David Attenborough is on the move! First photos of
#PolarShip
successfully inching out of the construction hall.
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There's been a long debate about why there was a big decline in atmospheric C02 in the 16th and 17th centuries.
Now, thanks to new analysis by ice core scientist Dr Amy King, we're pretty sure we have the answer: colonialism.
Buckle up for a 🧵⬇️
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#Takeacloserlook
at some of the state-of-the-art facilities and equipment on board the RRS Sir David Attenborough
#PolarShip
#Engineering
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Today's
#wintersolstice
in the UK - but
#summersolstice
in
#Antarctica
! This is Rothera research station in the midnight sun.
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The
#RRSSirDavidAttenborough
has visited the largest iceberg in the world,
#A23a
🚢🧊
It's 3,900km2 - so a bit bigger than Cornwall.
The epic team on board, including Theresa Gossman, Matthew Gascoyne & Christopher Grey, got us this footage.
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The
#RRSSirDavidAttenborough
has officially entered Antarctica!
The ship passed 60 degrees South and entered the Antarctic Treaty area at approximately 1100 GMT today.
📸Jenna Plank, BAS
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Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science from the science team on the
#RRSSirDavidAttenborough
in Antarctica! The amazing
@S_Ocean_sof
&
@KRHendry
lead a team in which women are the majority.
#WomenInPolarScience
#WomenInScience
#SDAScience
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It’s an exciting day! The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, accompanied by Sir David Attenborough, have a tour of the
#newpolarship
BAS scientist Robert Mulvaney shows the group and local schoolchildren ice from Antarctica
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It is with deep sorrow we report the death of Emeritus Fellow, Professor David Vaughan. He was suffering from cancer and passed away peacefully at home on Thursday 9 February 2023.
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So: we're currently missing an area of Antarctic sea ice bigger than Greenland.
You might have seen this graph (thanks
@ZLabe
).
Our scientists have been pretty busy talking about this extreme event in the media. Here's what you need to know ��️
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The melt rate of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet will increase until the end of the century, even if we reduce emissions.
New research led by BAS'
@kaitlinnaughten
shows that it's now likely unavoidable - even in the best-case scenario.
Here's the story ⬇️
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Science on the move! The process of moving Halley Research Station is underway
#icestation
#Antarctica
Read more:
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Today's the day! Watch the hull launch of our new
#PolarShip
at from 11am. Launch at 12:20
@CammellLaird
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The
#RRSSirDavidAttenborough
gained a new crew member during yesterday's
#snow
!
Constructed with kind assistance from Chris Lloyd and Ashley Shinn, thank you Jenna Plank for this brilliant
#snowman
shot ☃️
#SDAGoesSouth
#Antarctica
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The RRS Sir David Attenborough has departed Rothera for the last time this season, marking the start of our winter season and the end of another year of exciting science!
Thank-you to our amazing teams that make all this possible 💗
📸Alex Goldsack
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Antarctic Homecoming – Safe arrival for Antarctic staff in Portsmouth UK today, following month-long voyage on board MS Hebridean Sky after COVID-19 closed usual travel routes. Thank you to everyone who has made it possible to bring our people home!
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It’s early morning here at
@CammellLaird
shipyard and the sun is coming up behind the RRS Sir David Attenborough ready for her ceremonial naming today! You can follow along via our social media channels and we will be live-streaming the event at
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This
#WorldOceansDay
discover how our new
#polarship
will support scientists conducting vital research in the polar regions.
The RSS
#SirDavidAttenborough
will play a crucial role in
#ClimateChange
research and understanding the challenges presented by a changing planet.
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Views from a beach on
#Disko
Island in
#Greenland
. If only all days at work started like this
#arctic
#whale
#fieldwork
@griffiths_huw
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Remember the really low levels of
#SeaIce
in Antarctica last year? Records tumbling?
For the first time, now we know:
1) how rare this sea ice loss was
2) if climate change made it more likely
Spoiler: it was super rare; now it’s four times more likely.
Buckle up for a 🧵⬇️
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Congratulations to BAS marine biologist Dr Huw Griffiths
@griffiths_huw
who has been awarded the SCAR Medal for Education & Communication at
#SCAR2020
today
@SCAR_Tweets
! Cited as ‘authentic & passionate advocate’ for making science accessible & promoting
#DiversityinPolarScience
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'Icy sugar cubes' by Peter Convey has been shortlisted for the the 2017 Royal Society Publishing Photography competition from a staggering 1100 entries! You can find out more here:
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Happy
#FathersDay
! Let's hear it for the emperor
#penguin
dads who fast for nine weeks while egg incubating, losing 45% of their body weight while mum goes out to sea! After the eggs hatch, both adults take turns to rear the chick:
📷 Richard Burt
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It’s a tough time to be an emperor penguin 🐧
14 of the 66 colonies in Antarctica lost some or all of their chicks due to sea ice breakup in 2023.
But colonies some adapted! Here's the story of two colonies we followed from space ⬇️
#WorldPenguinDay
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Tumbling sea ice records. Breeding failures of predators. A 45-degree temperature increase over just 3 days.
There're lots of extremes happening in Antarctica at the moment. But, in the future, these extreme events will no longer be, well, extreme. 🥺
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And she’s off - RRS Sir David Attenborough Hull is launched by Sir David Attenborough and Prof Dame Jane Francis. Such a proud moment.
#polarship
@CammellLaird
@NERCscience
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More and more penguin colonies have been affected by sea ice loss in the last few years…
…but we've never seen regional breeding failure at this scale.
Here's the full story ⬇️
📸 and paper from
@PeterTFretwell
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What's that? A new map viewer bringing together all the data of the Antarctic Digital Database? Freely available?!
Go enjoy yourself zooming into bits of Antarctica, map lovers ⬇️
The BAS ✨MAGIC✨ team looks after this project for
@SCAR_Tweets
.
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Happy
#Antarctica
Day!
Did you know? On December 1st 1959 the Antarctic Treaty was signed by 12 nations. Find out more about the treaty here:
#AntarcticaDay
#AntarcticaDay2018
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Want to see the hull of the RRS Sir David Attenborough enter the water for the first time? Go to Liverpool’s Albert Docks or Otterspool Park on Sat 14 July at noon
@CammellLaird
@NERCscience
Full details here:
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#Aurora
in Antarctica! The COLOURS 😍🎨
These gorgeous photos were taken by Dr George Day, who is the Zoological Field Assistant at Bird Island Research Station on South Georgia 🐧
#AuroraAustralis
#SouthernLights
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Happy
#AntarcticaDay
2021! Today we celebrate the
#AntarcticTreaty
, preserving and protecting the continent devoted to peace and science, signed on 1 December 1959.
Explore details of the 1959 Treaty here:
📸 Flags of Antarctic Treaty signatories.
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After a recent cold snap, staff at our Rothera Research Station are digging out their accommodation after a night of snow!
Thanks to Emma Reynolds, Radio Operator for the photo.
#Antarctica
#Snow
#PolarWeather
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The first wandering
#albatross
egg was laid in the main study area on
#BirdIsland
in December 2020. Here is the new albatross mum!
📷 Alex Dodds
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Today the
#RRSSirDavidAttenborough
sets off from the Falkland Islands to Antarctic waters for the
#SDAScience
Trials 🚢
The team are testing the new ship’s amazing technical capabilities as they work in concert - like an orchestra playing together for the first time.
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📣 Double-whammy iceberg news this morning:
1️⃣ The largest iceberg, A23a, is on the move!
Here's its journey out of the Weddell Sea after being grounded on the sea floor after calving in August 1986.
Copernicus Sentinel-1 imagery, Google Earth Engine 👇
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Penguins ASSEMBLE! It's
#PenguinAwarenessDay
🐧
#DYK
Of the 18 different species of
#penguin
, only two (Adélie and emperor) make the
#Antarctic
continent their true home:
📽️
#EmperorPenguins
, BAS
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Scientists have discovered a new emperor penguin colony at Vergler Point, Antarctica 🐧
They used satellite mapping technology to spot the penguins and their guano - visible in this amazing aerial image.
📸
@Maxar
#PenguinAwarenessDay
The full story 👇
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Britain’s new polar research vessel
#RRSSirDavidAttenborough
has arrived at
#Rothera
Research Station,
#Antarctica
, for the first time! The ship has safely berthed at the new Rothera wharf.
Full news story:
📸 William Clark, BAS
#SDAGoesSouth
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Today the Ross Sea Marine Protected Area comes into force. This is the world’s largest marine protected area
#AntarcticaDay2017
#Antarctica
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Could
#climatechange
turn Antarctica's coasts green? Using pictures from space, scientists have found that warming temperatures could cause green snow algae - microscopic plants - to spread
#NewPaper
in
@NatureComms
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So I suppose you're wondering why I've gathered you all here today... Happy
#WorldPenguinDay
from British Antarctic Survey!
📷 'Big Mac' Macaroni
#penguin
colony on
#SouthGeorgia
, where BAS scientists are conducting long-term monitoring:
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Happy International Day of Women & Girls in Science! (11 Feb,
#IDWGIS
) We have brought together a collection of stories from
#WomenInScience
at BAS, including scientific triumphs, fieldwork experiences & ongoing work to promote
#DiversityInPolarScience
-
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BAS researchers studying high-res satellite imagery found Emperor
#penguins
at Halley Bay colony have failed to raise chicks for last three years. Sobering news on
#WorldPenguinDay
Find out more: photo: Christopher Walton
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Better late than never! Our overwintering science team at King Edward Point took these gorgeous images to celebrate last week’s
#LGBTstemday
#pride365days
#PrideinSTEM
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Happy
#AntarcticaDay
! 57 years ago today the
@AntarcticTreaty
was signed to protect the continent - for peaceful purposes only.
#OnThisDay
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The new
#PolarShip
's top coat of paint is being applied. Doesn't she look magnificent?
@CammellLaird
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#BoatyMcBoatface
has completed 1st ever deployment in
#Antarctica
! See video & read more on our website:
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Penguins on a volcano 🐧 🌋
Yes, you read that right! Zavodovski Island has the world's largest colony of chinstrap penguins.
Pros: unique biodiversity!
Cons: VERY hard to get to. And it's a volcano.
Result: there's no conservation data.
UNTIL NOW... 🧵
#PenguinAwarenessDay
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What an image! The RRS Ernest Shackleton travelling in pack ice close to Adelaide Island, having left Rothera following a successful station relief
#Shackleton
#Antarctica
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Ice navigation at it's best! Science on
@GlacierThwaites
is almost ready with the assistance of the Royal Navy's
@hmsprotector
with tonnes of kit unloaded in West
#Antarctica
. The two ships slowly navigated through the sea ice - don't they look lovely!
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The
#RRSSirDavidAttenborough
viewed from "Erebus" and "Erebus" viewed from the SDA!
#SDAScience
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This Saturday watch the hull-launch of the RRS Sir David Attenborough at 12:20 pm from vantage points such as Albert Docks and Otterspool in Liverpool or stream from 11 am via
#Polarship
@CammellLaird
#Engineering
#YoE
#SummerofEngineering
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New penguins just dropped for
#PenguinAwarenessDay
🥚🐧
The science team on Bird Island have spotted six chinstrap penguin chicks on Johnson Beach - and they are adorable!
This is the first time in our recent records that chinstraps have hatched chicks there.
📸
@Ash_w_b
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Today our cartographers released new Antarctic and Arctic maps - with lots of changes to these fast changing and fragile places:
🧊 ice sheet loss
🌊 new sea ice data
📌 using indigenous town names in the Canadian Arctic
#WorldOceansDay
#climatechange
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“You're tied to co-workers, on a glacier, in icy conditions, and then you realise… it's that time of the month. What do you do?” Thanks to our colleagues who agreed to discuss this⬇️
#polarscience
#menstruation
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#RRSSirDavidAttenborough
noses into the ice as it heads further into Antarctica.
The SDA can move through ice up to 1m thick at 3 knots (5.6km/h).
Thanks to Rich Turner, Purser on board the SDA for this incredible photo!
#SDAGoesSouth
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After a 12-day delay, the opening team made it to Halley!
Halley has had twice as much snow as usual, so the first job was to clear the site and get it ready before the rest of the team arrived. The station was up and running in five days - well done team!
📸Martin Bell, BAS
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The new
#PolarShip
has been successfully moved to dry dock! Whilst in dry dock the outside of the ship will be blasted and painted, propellers installed, and the scientific transducers fitted to the bottom of the hull
@CammellLaird
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'Icy sugar cubes' by Professor Peter Convey has won the 2017 Royal Society Publishing Photography competition! Congratulations Peter!
#Antarctica
@RSocPublishing
#RSphotocomp
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And she is named! Not the first choice, but definitely the best. 🚢
#RRSSirDavidAttenborough
#newpolarship
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Unfortunately,
#avianinfluenza
has been found in wandering albatross on South Georgia.
We're working closely with
@GovSGSSI
.
HPAI H5N1 has so far been confirmed in elephant and fur seals, brown skuas, kelp gulls and Antarctic terns.
Here's the latest ⬇️
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For the first time in 2022, the Bird Island overwintering team was entirely made up of women
Here's the team (and a special guest) celebrating Midwinter Day in June
#12DaysOfBASmas
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A little
#penguin
chick smile for you for the Early May
#BankHoliday
UK 🐧
📷 Richard Burt, BAS
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Coming up to midnight, with perfect weather conditions as the DS Wisconsin arrives at Rothera loaded with essential cargo to build a new wharf. The sun is just about as low as it gets at this time of year in
#Antarctica
. Photo: Matthew Philips
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On 19 Feb,
#RRSJamesClarkRoss
departed Rothera in
#Antarctica
for the final time. After 30 years of service, the JCR will retire at the end of the 20/21 season:
📷 JCR departs
#Rothera
(📷 Alex Wallace
@___ASW___
),
#Signy
&
#PortLockroy
(📷 Iain Gordon)
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Of the 17 species of penguin, only the emperor and the Adelie make the
#Antarctic
continent their true home
#Antarctica
#PenguinAwarenessDay
#penguin
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The Brunt Ice Shelf is home to the BAS Halley Research Station, which was moved 23km inland of Chasm-1 in 2016 in preparation for this calving.
'Our glaciologists and operations teams have been anticipating this event,' said Professor Dame Jane Francis.
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Spectacular pictures of the Malik Arctica beside the Brunt Ice Shelf in early January 😮
This was the first relief of Halley Research Station by sea in several years.
The teams worked incredibly hard over 9 days complete the unloading supplies, and load 6 years of waste!
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Cool enough to work in Antarctica? We need mechanics, plumbers, electricians, chefs & more for 2017/18 season
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Majestic landscape: RRS Ernest Shackleton (in front) leads DS Wisconsin through sea ice on final leg of month-long journey to Rothera Research Station, loaded with cargo to build new
#Antarctic
wharf. Photo by A.Cziferszky
@BAS
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#Antarctica
: end of the world, but what happens here affects us all. Check out BAS research & support staff's work:
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Here comes the sun! 🌅
The Winterers at Rothera Research Station have celebrated the sun making its first appearance over the horizon after the long period of darkness.
Here's the hardy team taking part in the Flag Up ceremony 👇
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First iceberg of the
#SDAScience
expedition! The tiny black dots and brown smears are a group of chinstrap penguins! Amazing views from the helideck of the
#RRSSirDavidAttenborough
!
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‘Breaking All the Rules: The First Recorded Hard Substrate Sessile Benthic Community Far Beneath an Antarctic Ice Shelf’ - Huw J. Griffiths, Paul Anker, Katrin Linse, Jamie Maxwell, Alexandra L. Post, Craig Stevens, Slawek Tulaczyk & James A. Smith:
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Lose yourself for 90 seconds in this beautiful timelapse ❄️
These are the daylight hours of Antarctic winter, captured by Billy Thursfield. He's part of the team at Rothera on the Antarctic Peninsula, looking after the research station and our long term science data.
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Britain’s new polar research ship,
#RRSSirDavidAttenborough
, departs the UK this week for its maiden voyage to
#Antarctica
!
The ship leaves Harwich today & will stop at Portsmouth before departing the UK by 18 Nov:
📸 At
#IceWorldsGreenwich
@NERCscience
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Happy Antarctica Day! Today marks the 60th anniversary of the
#Antarctic
Treaty which keeps this amazing continent for peace and science.
Read more:
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📣 Last call for passengers at Rothera! Today, the
#RRSSirDavidAttenborough
departs Antarctica for the season.
It leaves an intrepid 'Wintering' team who will be working through the darker and colder months.
Here's our SDA webcam and live tracker 👇
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