Polar Expertise - Supporting Development
Lead Research Organisation:
British Antarctic Survey
Abstract
Working in the Polar Regions, BAS has developed expertise, instrumentation and modelling techniques that have wider applicability, e.g. where research can contribute to development goals. We propose two strands of research in ODA countries that build upon the strengths of BAS as an interdisciplinary survey and research institute, and which continue strands of research begun in recent years under grant funding: one focused on water resources in the Indian section of the Indus river basin, and the other on the long term security of ecosystem services on South Atlantic Islands.
Access to water in India is a key development challenge (UN SDG 6) as population growth, a rapidly expanding economy and a large agricultural sector compete for increasingly scarce or variable supplies, and this is likely to be exacerbated by predicted climate change. Already, almost 95% of Indus river flow is extracted to feed the world's largest system of irrigated agriculture, particularly in Indian and Pakistani Punjab, which supports 237 million people and growing.
The Indus river system originates in the western Himalayas, fed by snow and glacier melt and precipitation. Snow cover and glaciers in this region have shrunk dramatically in recent years, posing a serious threat to this water supply, but almost none of its thousands of glaciers have any ice thickness measurements and so the size of the region's ice reserves is unknown. Furthermore, the fundamental precipitation inputs to this river basin are sparsely measured and poorly understood.
This proposal will address these deficiencies by adapting existing BAS polar radar techniques to survey glacier volumes from the air, and developing a high resolution atmospheric model to characterise local climate variability (particularly by improving its representation of cloud microphysics and how this affects simulated precipitation). When linked to wider glacio-hydrological modelling studies (e.g. those to be undertaken by partners in India) this will lead to better understanding of present-day and future water availability, resulting in better informed policy decisions on Indus river water use.
The food security and economies of isolated island communities in the South Atlantic, in particular Tristan da Cunha and St Helena, are heavily reliant on harvesting marine resources and, to a lesser degree, tourism. Most of these resources are taken from the small coastal shelf areas and seamounts that are isolated in vast areas of deep ocean. Understanding how vulnerable these resources are to current and future harvesting, climate change and species invasion will be key to maintaining the future economic and cultural security of these communities.
We propose to deploy a multi-disciplinary team to construct a food-web for the exploited marine populations that will allow us to identify critical links in the food chain and to assess their vulnerability. Scientific cruises and land-based fieldwork, complemented by ocean model simulations, will allow us to understand the variability and eventually to identify any longer term trends, including climate change signals.
The key to this project is that it will integrate all previous studies to develop a long term study methodology that will improve our understanding of the causes and consequences of environmental change to the coastal shelf ecosystem. It would leave a legacy of robust oceanographic and food web modelling that will provide the scientific information necessary to develop policies to manage marine ecosystem resources, especially those relating to food security and eco-tourism. Moreover, whilst feeding directly into Island governmental planning, the outputs from this research will also feed into a number of International organisations that are actively involved in conservation of marine biodiversity.
Access to water in India is a key development challenge (UN SDG 6) as population growth, a rapidly expanding economy and a large agricultural sector compete for increasingly scarce or variable supplies, and this is likely to be exacerbated by predicted climate change. Already, almost 95% of Indus river flow is extracted to feed the world's largest system of irrigated agriculture, particularly in Indian and Pakistani Punjab, which supports 237 million people and growing.
The Indus river system originates in the western Himalayas, fed by snow and glacier melt and precipitation. Snow cover and glaciers in this region have shrunk dramatically in recent years, posing a serious threat to this water supply, but almost none of its thousands of glaciers have any ice thickness measurements and so the size of the region's ice reserves is unknown. Furthermore, the fundamental precipitation inputs to this river basin are sparsely measured and poorly understood.
This proposal will address these deficiencies by adapting existing BAS polar radar techniques to survey glacier volumes from the air, and developing a high resolution atmospheric model to characterise local climate variability (particularly by improving its representation of cloud microphysics and how this affects simulated precipitation). When linked to wider glacio-hydrological modelling studies (e.g. those to be undertaken by partners in India) this will lead to better understanding of present-day and future water availability, resulting in better informed policy decisions on Indus river water use.
The food security and economies of isolated island communities in the South Atlantic, in particular Tristan da Cunha and St Helena, are heavily reliant on harvesting marine resources and, to a lesser degree, tourism. Most of these resources are taken from the small coastal shelf areas and seamounts that are isolated in vast areas of deep ocean. Understanding how vulnerable these resources are to current and future harvesting, climate change and species invasion will be key to maintaining the future economic and cultural security of these communities.
We propose to deploy a multi-disciplinary team to construct a food-web for the exploited marine populations that will allow us to identify critical links in the food chain and to assess their vulnerability. Scientific cruises and land-based fieldwork, complemented by ocean model simulations, will allow us to understand the variability and eventually to identify any longer term trends, including climate change signals.
The key to this project is that it will integrate all previous studies to develop a long term study methodology that will improve our understanding of the causes and consequences of environmental change to the coastal shelf ecosystem. It would leave a legacy of robust oceanographic and food web modelling that will provide the scientific information necessary to develop policies to manage marine ecosystem resources, especially those relating to food security and eco-tourism. Moreover, whilst feeding directly into Island governmental planning, the outputs from this research will also feed into a number of International organisations that are actively involved in conservation of marine biodiversity.
Planned Impact
'Long term security of ecosystem services on South Atlantic Islands' focusses on both Tristan da Cunha and St Helena's heavy reliance on marine resources for food and economic security. 80% of Tristan da Cunha income comes from the commercial lobster fishery but the subsistence fisheries are closely associated with the Islanders cultural identity. Marine wildlife also supports an ecotourism industry at both Islands. The discrete geographic extent of these Islands, and well-defined actors, allows us to clearly identify the beneficiaries of this project. The governments of Tristan da Cunha and St. Helena and commercial interests such as Overstone Fishing Company will benefit from the indicators of ecosystem health that we will provide because they will help to ensure that fisheries exploitation is sustainable and that the fisheries retain their valuable Marine Stewardship Council certification. The project will provide an enhanced understanding of the food webs and new tools that will increase resilience of the harvestable stocks. These benefits are enhanced by the programme of capability-building that we propose (training in marine surveys, pragmatic ecosystem modelling, a data archive), which will enhance the self-reliance of the islands' fisheries and conservation departments, increasing their ability to manage their own marine resources in the face of environmental change. Ongoing conservation projects (e.g., RSPB, SAERI, National Geographic, Darwin) and the locating and monitoring of marine protected areas will also benefit through the improved understanding of the marine ecosystem that this research will provide.
In 'Water resources of the Upper Indus', both the water resource issue and the stakeholder landscape are highly complex. Multiple, competing water users and managers interact with policy-makers at a range of scales and levels of government, local to international. In our 'pathways to development impact', we have focussed strongly on a process of identifying stakeholders and seeking to understand their needs, as a key initial task. PP Bharucha (Anglia Ruskin University), PP David Viner (Mott Macdonald), the India-UK Water Centre (IUKWC) and the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) have agreed to help us target our research to best meet stakeholder needs and to disseminate our results to best inform stakeholder decision-makers.
We anticipate that our Upper Indus research will ultimately benefit the water management agencies of India (Department of Hydrology and Meteorology and associates) and Pakistan (Water and Power Development Agency and associates) by contributing datasets that will reduce uncertainty in river-flow predictions. Directly and through these agencies, greater flow predictability will benefit hydropower developers and managers by improving estimates of the generation of electricity and hence income, which will assist in both power-capacity planning and project financing. Glacial meltwater is particularly important during low flows, hence our survey work supports disaster preparedness and mitigation by contributing to improved predictions of extreme low flows in droughts. Mountain climate in the Upper Indus affects all aspects of seasonal, annual and extreme flows and how they will change in future, and so is fundamental to short-term water resource management (relevant to municipal, industrial and agricultural water consumers) and longer-term government water-resource planning in the context of expected changes in water demand. In addition, our project partners in India will benefit directly from our planned capability-building activities (glacier radar surveying, high-resolution mountain climate modelling) through which we will support our partners to develop their own survey and modelling research, empowering them further to fund and expand their own cryospheric research programmes.
In 'Water resources of the Upper Indus', both the water resource issue and the stakeholder landscape are highly complex. Multiple, competing water users and managers interact with policy-makers at a range of scales and levels of government, local to international. In our 'pathways to development impact', we have focussed strongly on a process of identifying stakeholders and seeking to understand their needs, as a key initial task. PP Bharucha (Anglia Ruskin University), PP David Viner (Mott Macdonald), the India-UK Water Centre (IUKWC) and the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) have agreed to help us target our research to best meet stakeholder needs and to disseminate our results to best inform stakeholder decision-makers.
We anticipate that our Upper Indus research will ultimately benefit the water management agencies of India (Department of Hydrology and Meteorology and associates) and Pakistan (Water and Power Development Agency and associates) by contributing datasets that will reduce uncertainty in river-flow predictions. Directly and through these agencies, greater flow predictability will benefit hydropower developers and managers by improving estimates of the generation of electricity and hence income, which will assist in both power-capacity planning and project financing. Glacial meltwater is particularly important during low flows, hence our survey work supports disaster preparedness and mitigation by contributing to improved predictions of extreme low flows in droughts. Mountain climate in the Upper Indus affects all aspects of seasonal, annual and extreme flows and how they will change in future, and so is fundamental to short-term water resource management (relevant to municipal, industrial and agricultural water consumers) and longer-term government water-resource planning in the context of expected changes in water demand. In addition, our project partners in India will benefit directly from our planned capability-building activities (glacier radar surveying, high-resolution mountain climate modelling) through which we will support our partners to develop their own survey and modelling research, empowering them further to fund and expand their own cryospheric research programmes.
Organisations
- British Antarctic Survey (Lead Research Organisation)
- Government of St Helena (Collaboration)
- United Kingdom Hydrographic Office (Collaboration)
- SOUTH ATLANTIC ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE (Collaboration)
- Government of Tristan da Cunha (Collaboration)
- University of East Anglia (Collaboration)
- TERI University (Collaboration, Project Partner)
- Anglia Ruskin University (Collaboration)
- Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science (Collaboration)
- Vellore Institute of Technology University (Collaboration)
- Mott Macdonald UK Ltd (Collaboration)
- International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) (Collaboration)
- Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) (Collaboration)
- Indian Institute of Science Bangalore (Collaboration, Project Partner)
- National Institute of Hydrology, Roorkee (Collaboration)
- National Institute of Hydrology (Project Partner)
- Tristan da Cunha Government (Project Partner)
- Anglia Ruskin University (Project Partner)
- Mott Macdonald (United Kingdom) (Project Partner)
- International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (Project Partner)
- Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science (Project Partner)
- Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (Project Partner)
- Vellore Institute of Technology University (Project Partner)
- St Helena Government (Project Partner)
Publications

Bannister D
(2019)
Bias Correction of High-Resolution Regional Climate Model Precipitation Output Gives the Best Estimates of Precipitation in Himalayan Catchments
in Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres

Barnes D
(2019)
Extremes in Benthic Ecosystem Services; Blue Carbon Natural Capital Shallower Than 1000 m in Isolated, Small, and Young Ascension Island's EEZ
in Frontiers in Marine Science

Barnes DKA
(2018)
Marine plastics threaten giant Atlantic Marine Protected Areas.
in Current biology : CB

Campanella F
(2021)
First Insight of Meso- and Bentho-Pelagic Fish Dynamics Around Remote Seamounts in the South Atlantic Ocean
in Frontiers in Marine Science

Dias M
(2017)
Using globally threatened pelagic birds to identify priority sites for marine conservation in the South Atlantic Ocean
in Biological Conservation

Gogarty B
(2019)
Protecting Antarctic blue carbon: as marine ice retreats can the law fill the gap?
in Climate Policy

Gumber S.
On the microphysical processing of aged combustion aerosols impacting warm rain microphysics over Asian megacities
in Theoretical and Applied Climatology


McCARTHY M
(2017)
Ground-penetrating radar measurements of debris thickness on Lirung Glacier, Nepal
in Journal of Glaciology

Morley S
(2019)
Predicting Which Species Succeed in Climate-Forced Polar Seas
in Frontiers in Marine Science
Description | We have developed a new airborne ice penetrating radar for use on warm glaciers. This was tested in Svalbard in 2018 and worked well. |
Exploitation Route | The radar could be used in any glacial environment. |
Sectors | Environment |
Description | Findings have already been requests from the Governments of St Helena and Tristan da Cunha to inform fisheries and conservation policy. NOTE: Full details of impacts are provided regularly, direct to NERC, as part of the on-going National Capability review process. |
First Year Of Impact | 2018 |
Sector | Agriculture, Food and Drink,Environment |
Impact Types | Cultural,Societal,Economic,Policy & public services |
Description | 2019/20 Advice to Tristan da Cunha and St Helena |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
Impact | Various activities undertaken to inform the OT governments on findings of research and consequential advice. TdaC -Meeting at BAS in August 2019. Analysis of science from cruises, the outputs of which fed directly into management plan to designate MPA. Expected that bottom trawling on the seamounts will be banned because of evidence from the cruises -Working with the Marine Management Organisation to develop MPA management strategy -Advice was provided on the resumption of penguin egg harvesting and the numbers of A eggs that can be sustainably taken. This was adopted by Tristan Council St H. -Data from the cruises is being compiled into the marine management plan for the StH MPA. |
Description | Evidence-based recommendations for sustainable penguin egg harvests on Tristan da Cunha |
Geographic Reach | South America |
Policy Influence Type | Implementation circular/rapid advice/letter to e.g. Ministry of Health |
Impact | Evidence-based recommendations for sustainable penguin egg harvests on Tristan da Cunha Norman Ratcliffe to Tristan Island Council |
Description | Participation in GB non-native species secretariat NNSS meeting in St Helena on biological invasions - (Peter Convey) |
Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
Policy Influence Type | Membership of a guideline committee |
Impact | Invited participation in Horizon scanning workshop on St Helena to identify potential biological invasions. Report and action plan will follow |
URL | http://www.nonnativespecies.org |
Description | Participation in GB non-native species secretariat NNSS meeting in St Helena on biological invasions - (Peter Convey) |
Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
Policy Influence Type | Membership of a guideline committee |
Impact | Workshop in St Helena run by NNSS to assess vulnerability of UK OTs to biological invasions. A report and action plan will follow. |
URL | http://www.nonnativespecies.org/ |
Description | Polar Expertise Supporting Development |
Amount | £438,400 (GBP) |
Funding ID | NE/T012439/1 |
Organisation | Natural Environment Research Council |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 03/2020 |
End | 03/2021 |
Description | The Big Thaw: gauging the past, present and future of our mountain water resources |
Amount | £1,376,227 (GBP) |
Funding ID | NE/X005267/1 |
Organisation | Natural Environment Research Council |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 12/2022 |
End | 11/2026 |
Title | A bathymetric compilation of Ascension Island, 2000-2017 (Version 1.0) |
Description | A new bathymetric compilation around Ascension Island here defined by the following bounding box: 14.57 to 14.17 W, 8.12 to 7.75 S. This bathymetry grid was compiled from a variety of multibeam swath bathymetry data acquired during 4 different cruises (see lineage). The data is available as a grid of approximately 50 m resolution in two different formats: a GMT-compatible (2-D) NetCDF and Arc/Info and ArcView ASCII grid format using geographic coordinates on the WGS84 datum. |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2019 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | N/A |
Title | Gridded bathymetric compilation of Tristan da Cunha from multibeam echosounder data collected by multiple vessels (1996-2019) |
Description | We present a new gridded bathymetric compilation around Tristan da Cunha here defined by the following bounding box: 5 to 16.8W, 33 to 43.5S. This bathymetry grid was compiled from a variety of multibeam swath bathymetry data acquired during 7 different cruises (see lineage). The data is available as a grid of 0.001 degrees resolution in three different formats: NetCDF, ArcView ASCII and GeoTIFF formats using geographic coordinates on the WGS84 datum. This grid is an output of the UK FCDO 'Blue Belt' program and the following Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) BAS-ODA fundings: NE/R000107/1 and NE/T012439/1. |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2021 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | N/A |
URL | https://data.bas.ac.uk/full-record.php?id=GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/01559 |
Title | Model-simulated and bias-corrected daily total precipitation from a reanalysis-driven Weather Research and Forecasting simulation of the Beas and Sutlej river basins in the Himalaya, 1980 to 2012 |
Description | High-resolution simulations of daily precipitation over the Beas and Sutlej basins in the Himalaya from 1980 to 2012 were conducted using the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model by the British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, UK. It was shown that applying a non-linear bias-correction method to the model precipitation output resulted in much better results. The work formed part of the project 'Sustaining Himalayan Water Resources in a Changing Climate (SusHi-Wat)' during 2015 to 2018, and was funded by the UK Natural Environmental Research Council grant number NE/N015592/1. The datasets produced are necessary as accurate fine-scale estimates of precipitation over catchments in the Himalaya mountain range are required for providing input to hydrological models, as well as identifying precipitation extremes for assessing hydro-meteorological hazards. |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2019 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | N/A |
Description | Collaboration in South Atlantic |
Organisation | Centre For Environment, Fisheries And Aquaculture Science |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Public |
PI Contribution | Collaborations set up to deliver shipborne science and engagement outcomes around South Atlantic islands |
Collaborator Contribution | Cooperation and support of ship cruises |
Impact | none yet |
Start Year | 2017 |
Description | Collaboration in South Atlantic |
Organisation | Government of St Helena |
Country | Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha |
Sector | Public |
PI Contribution | Collaborations set up to deliver shipborne science and engagement outcomes around South Atlantic islands |
Collaborator Contribution | Cooperation and support of ship cruises |
Impact | none yet |
Start Year | 2017 |
Description | Collaboration in South Atlantic |
Organisation | Government of Tristan da Cunha |
Country | Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha |
Sector | Public |
PI Contribution | Collaborations set up to deliver shipborne science and engagement outcomes around South Atlantic islands |
Collaborator Contribution | Cooperation and support of ship cruises |
Impact | none yet |
Start Year | 2017 |
Description | Collaboration in South Atlantic |
Organisation | Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
PI Contribution | Collaborations set up to deliver shipborne science and engagement outcomes around South Atlantic islands |
Collaborator Contribution | Cooperation and support of ship cruises |
Impact | none yet |
Start Year | 2017 |
Description | Collaboration in South Atlantic |
Organisation | South Atlantic Environmental Research Institute |
Country | Falkland Islands (Malvinas) |
Sector | Learned Society |
PI Contribution | Collaborations set up to deliver shipborne science and engagement outcomes around South Atlantic islands |
Collaborator Contribution | Cooperation and support of ship cruises |
Impact | none yet |
Start Year | 2017 |
Description | Collaboration in South Atlantic |
Organisation | United Kingdom Hydrographic Office |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Public |
PI Contribution | Collaborations set up to deliver shipborne science and engagement outcomes around South Atlantic islands |
Collaborator Contribution | Cooperation and support of ship cruises |
Impact | none yet |
Start Year | 2017 |
Description | Collaborations in Himalayas |
Organisation | Anglia Ruskin University |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | These collaborations are set up to deliver the programme, and engagement activities |
Collaborator Contribution | Partnership in science and engagement activities |
Impact | None yet |
Start Year | 2017 |
Description | Collaborations in Himalayas |
Organisation | Indian Institute of Science Bangalore |
Country | India |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | These collaborations are set up to deliver the programme, and engagement activities |
Collaborator Contribution | Partnership in science and engagement activities |
Impact | None yet |
Start Year | 2017 |
Description | Collaborations in Himalayas |
Organisation | International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) |
Country | Nepal |
Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
PI Contribution | These collaborations are set up to deliver the programme, and engagement activities |
Collaborator Contribution | Partnership in science and engagement activities |
Impact | None yet |
Start Year | 2017 |
Description | Collaborations in Himalayas |
Organisation | Mott Macdonald UK Ltd |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | These collaborations are set up to deliver the programme, and engagement activities |
Collaborator Contribution | Partnership in science and engagement activities |
Impact | None yet |
Start Year | 2017 |
Description | Collaborations in Himalayas |
Organisation | National Institute of Hydrology, Roorkee |
Country | India |
Sector | Public |
PI Contribution | These collaborations are set up to deliver the programme, and engagement activities |
Collaborator Contribution | Partnership in science and engagement activities |
Impact | None yet |
Start Year | 2017 |
Description | Collaborations in Himalayas |
Organisation | TERI University |
Country | India |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | These collaborations are set up to deliver the programme, and engagement activities |
Collaborator Contribution | Partnership in science and engagement activities |
Impact | None yet |
Start Year | 2017 |
Description | Collaborations in Himalayas |
Organisation | University of East Anglia |
Department | School of Environmental Sciences UEA |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | These collaborations are set up to deliver the programme, and engagement activities |
Collaborator Contribution | Partnership in science and engagement activities |
Impact | None yet |
Start Year | 2017 |
Description | Collaborations in Himalayas |
Organisation | Vellore Institute of Technology University |
Country | India |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | These collaborations are set up to deliver the programme, and engagement activities |
Collaborator Contribution | Partnership in science and engagement activities |
Impact | None yet |
Start Year | 2017 |
Description | Further cruises funded by Blue Belt inititaives |
Organisation | Centre For Environment, Fisheries And Aquaculture Science |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Public |
PI Contribution | CEFAS has joined forces with PS-SD to enhance cruises to the UK OT islands. In each year of the award, cruises have been augemented through charter of the NERC Vessels, and co-crewing of the cruises. The actual and in-kind value of these activities is hard to estimate, but is considerable. |
Collaborator Contribution | see above |
Impact | See publications for joint-authored works |
Start Year | 2017 |
Title | Airborne DELORES radar instrument |
Description | DELORES is a BAS radar system used around the world to measure ice thickness on glaciers and ice sheets. The system was significantly modified in 2019 to deploy beneath a helicopter to measure warm glaciers in areas such as the Himalayas. The system was tested in Nepal in 2019 and worked extremely well. It will be deployed again as funding becomes available. |
Type Of Technology | Systems, Materials & Instrumental Engineering |
Year Produced | 2019 |
Impact | Much improved system capable of helicopter deployment in difficult terrain |
Description | 2019/20 Engagement in St Helena |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | SEveral public engagement activities were undertaken in St Helena in support of the award. St Helena - Public lecture as part of StH marine week - Radio interview on SAMS radio - Schools talks and activity days - Social media post about the cruise - St Helena Independent: Newspaper article. "Discovery arrives, with potatoes". - Delivery of 3 tonnes to Tristan potatoes and 1 tonne of Tristan lobsters to family members in St Helena - National competition to join Discovery 100 cruise as an observer - Flew 3 St Helenian researchers and one competition winner to the UK, paid for 4 PST training courses and ENG1 medicals. The visit included training days at BAS and Cefas |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
Description | 2019/20 Engagement in Tristan da Cunha |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Various engagement activities were undertaken in 2019/20 in Tristan da Cunha - Public Lecture at Edinburgh of the 7 Seas, Tristan da Cunha - Three cruise participants spent 11 days ashore on Tristan da Cunha talking to Island government, local people and school classes. - Articles in the Tristan Newsletter and blogs. - Social media posts about the cruise - 3 Tristanians joined the science cruise as observers for capacity building. - Transport of 3 PAX from Tristan to St Helena - Meeting at BAS for stakeholders to discuss how cruise research feeds into Blue belt designation policy - Paid for two PST training courses for at sea observers |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
Description | BAS webpage for the work on water resources of the Upper Indus |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | The BAS webpage for the work on water resources of the Upper Indus (https://www.bas.ac.uk/project/water-resources-of-the-upper-indus-basin/) was tweeted on the BAS twitter account. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
URL | https://www.bas.ac.uk/project/water-resources-of-the-upper-indus-basin/ |
Description | Filming for Frozen Planet II |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | A field team working on glaciological survey in the Himalayas was accompanied by a BBC Natural History Unit film crew who were filming for Frozen Planet II series due to air in 2022. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | Five separate engagement meetings with local communities in 2018 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | Five separate engagement meetings with local communities Tristan da Cunha - community: March 2018 St Helena Conservation departments: April 2018 FCO, Tristan da Cunha government representatives: July 2018 RSPB, Tristan da Cunha representatives: Nov 2018 Invasives species workshop St Helena: Nov 2018 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | Masters class on 'Energy Climate Interactions' |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | Andrew Orr was a guest lecturer at Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore, India in spring 2018, as a guest of project partner Sat Ghosh. He gave three lectures on climate change and climate modelling for a Masters class on 'Energy Climate Interactions', within the School of Mechanical Engineering |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | Public engagement at St Helena |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | Table 16.3. Details of the public engagement at St Helena. Date Type 13/04/18 News Story The Sentinel 13/04/18 News Story The Independent 17/04/18 Meeting Environment and Natural Resources Department 18/04/18 Field work Bird counts 18/04/18 Oceanography School field trip 18/04/18 Radio Interview Saint FM 18/04/18 Radio Interview SAMS radio 19/04//18 Radio Interview Saint FM 19/04/18 Public talk 70-80 locals in the Museum 20/04/18 Radio Interview Saint FM 20/04/18 News Story The Independent |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | Public engagement at Tristan da Cunha |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | Details of Public engagement at Tristan da Cunha 24/3/18 - 30/3/18, 1/4/18 Daily Report Administrator, head of fisheries, head of conservation 03/04/18 Tristan Newsletter For Island wide distribution 24/3/18 - 6/4/18 Daily weather Report Tristan School 31/3/18 Public Talk Local population 31/3/18 Transport Transport Island patrol vessel, Wave Rider, to the UK 2/4/18 Facebook story 2/4/18 Talk Dawn, Robin and Amber Repetto talked on the JCR about Island life. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2011,2018 |
Description | Seminar on stakeholder needs |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Project partner Zareen Bharucha (Anglia Ruskin University) met with both physical and social scientists at The Energy Resources Institute (TERI) to identify relevant stakeholders and assess their needs affected by water resources in the Upper Indus region. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | Three preparative meetings |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Meeting of Tristan stakeholders at the RSPB and the FCO. Northern rockhopper penguin conservation meeting at Edinburgh zoo. St Helena science meeting in St Helena |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | seminar on 'Experimental and theoretical studies on climate modelling |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Seminar on 'Experimental and theoretical studies on climate modelling at the British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge' to a general audience of both staff and students, within the School of Mechanical Engineering. by Andrew Orr |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |