BAS Polar Oceans
Lead Research Organisation:
British Antarctic Survey
Department Name: UNLISTED
Abstract
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Organisations
- British Antarctic Survey (Lead Research Organisation)
- Norwegian Polar Institute (Collaboration)
- University of Gothenburg (Collaboration)
- University of Groningen (Collaboration)
- University of East Anglia (Collaboration)
- Alfred-Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research (Collaboration)
- Princeton University (Collaboration)
- Meteorological Office UK (Collaboration)
- Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (Collaboration)
- British Geological Survey (Collaboration)
- Washington State University (Collaboration)
- NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE (Collaboration)
- Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE (Collaboration)
- University of Tasmania (Collaboration)
- University of California, San Diego (UCSD) (Collaboration)
- New York University (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS (Collaboration)
- Pierre and Marie Curie University - Paris 6 (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON (Collaboration)
People |
ORCID iD |
| Michael Meredith (Principal Investigator) |
Publications
Ashmore D
(2017)
Ice and firn heterogeneity within Larsen C Ice Shelf from borehole optical televiewing
in Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface
Cassarino L
(2017)
Silicon isotope and silicic acid uptake in surface waters of Marguerite Bay, West Antarctic Peninsula
in Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography
Brigden KE
(2017)
Interannual variability in reproductive traits of the Patagonian toothfish Dissostichus eleginoides around the sub-Antarctic island of South Georgia.
in Journal of fish biology
Kimura S
(2017)
Oceanographic Controls on the Variability of Ice-Shelf Basal Melting and Circulation of Glacial Meltwater in the Amundsen Sea Embayment, Antarctica
in Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans
Munday D
(2017)
On the dynamics of flow past a cylinder: Implications for CTD package motions and measurements
in Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans
Mathiot P
(2017)
Explicit representation and parametrised impacts of under ice shelf seas in the <i>z</i><sup>*</sup> coordinate ocean model NEMO 3.6
in Geoscientific Model Development
Marshall D
(2017)
Eddy saturation and frictional control of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current
in Geophysical Research Letters
Gladish C
(2017)
Ice-shelf basal channels in a coupled ice/ocean model
in Journal of Glaciology
Dittmar T
(2017)
Comment on "Dissolved organic sulfur in the ocean: Biogeochemistry of a petagram inventory"
in Science
Steig E
(2017)
Tropical forcing of Circumpolar Deep Water Inflow and outlet glacier thinning in the Amundsen Sea Embayment, West Antarctica
in Annals of Glaciology
| Description | Sea level is rising globally and ice loss from the Antarctic Ice Sheet is contributing a significant fraction of this. Current climate models project sea-level rise of 60 centimetres by 2100, but ice loss from Antarctica could increase this to 1 metre or more. Future Antarctic ice loss is highly uncertain, and this risk must be understood in order to enable humanity to adapt to the possible consequences. Ocean melting of floating glacial ice - known as 'ice shelves' - is the most important trigger of ice loss from Antarctica, and this is a major focus of research for the Polar Oceans programme. The majority of the ice loss is happening in the Amundsen Sea sector of Antarctica. The Polar Oceans programme has maintained an array of oceanographic moorings in the Amundsen Sea for many years as part of an international collaboration. Our scientists have also participated in a series of cruises to this region, recording the properties of the ocean water in important locations and at the face of the ice shelves. In the past year, a major re-processing of 10 years of observations at the face of Dotson Ice Shelf has confirmed that a decadal cycle of ocean temperature change has controlled the ice loss from its tributary ice streams. The ocean change is related to atmospheric variability travelling all the way from the tropics. This shows that the ongoing ice loss is not caused simply by a gradually warming ocean. The question of whether the ongoing ice loss is caused by historical natural variability or continued human-caused climate change is highly significant to policymakers. Ice shelves can be as large as France and two kilometres thick, so observing the oceans beneath is extremely difficult. We have perfected the technique of using hot water to drill boreholes through the ice and then deploying instrumentation down the hole to monitor the ocean. Moored oceanographic sensors deployed beneath the Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf, in the southern Weddell Sea, have shown a signal of gradual slowdown in the ocean currents beneath the ice, compared to earlier measurements obtained by our scientists in the 1990s. An investigation of wider datasets has revealed that this slowdown is consistent with a progressive reduction in sea-ice freezing to the north of the ice shelf, and a gradual warming of the Weddell Sea. These early results are of significant concern, because previous model results have shown that Antarctica can lose ice very rapidly if warmer waters enter the Filcher-Ronne cavity. The history and fate of Antarctic sea ice is another focus of the Polar Oceans programme. Arctic sea ice is declining rapidly, as expected against a background of global warming, but Antarctic sea ice has actually expanded in area over the last 35 years. A new analysis of satellite observations of sea ice shows that natural variability of the Southern Hemisphere, again caused by interaction with the tropics, has caused a large fraction of this expansion. This is the first time that any of the ice expansion has been firmly attributed to any cause. In addition, new model results and observations have also shown that Antarctic sea ice meltwater plays an important role in converting deep ocean waters to lighter, shallower waters, a conversion that forms a key part of the global ocean circulation. The Polar Oceans programme also strives to understand the role of the wider Southern Ocean (and Arctic) in the global climate system. The ocean that rings Antarctica is unique in all the global oceans in that it has a widespread and strong vertical circulation of watermasses. This allows direct and relatively rapid exchange of properties between the deep ocean basin and surface/atmosphere, and visa versa. In particular the Southern Ocean is responsible for 75% of heat and 40% of global ocean carbon sequestration, and thus it is critical to understanding future climate that we know how this vertical circulation may respond to changes in surface winds, heat fluxes and continental runoff/precipitation. Our recent work has shown that many coupled climate models used in the IPCC assessments struggle to consistently represent the dynamics controlling the Southern Ocean circulation, and often produce significantly different projections for changes under climate warming scenarios. This variance in model response across the suite of climate models may feed back onto the wider climate and represent a significant source of uncertainty in global warming projections. Our results show that, amongst other issues, one of the main problems facing the next generation of coupled climate models is a need to more accurately represent the impact of small scale (~50-100 km) eddies on the wider horizontal and vertical circulation of the Southern Ocean. These models have provided the basis for estimating future impacts of climate change and ocean warming on Southern Ocean benthic communities. These high impact results show that for communities south of the Polar Front approximately 79% of species will lose habitable area at suitable temperatures by 2100 under 'business as usual' climate change. Higher resolution modelling of the Southern Ocean has revealed insights into how wind variability impacts the dynamics and sensitivity of the Southern ocean. We have found that stronger changes in stratification and overturning may result from wind variability changes rather than the strength of the mean winds. This can be traced to robust changes in ocean energetics. The impact of this could be important in understanding past and future climates, where oceanographers usually pay more attention to the mean wind stress instead of how it changed. As well as assessing and diagnosing issues with the representation of Southern Ocean dynamics in models, the Polar Oceans programme has delivered insights into the processes that drive the vertical exchange of water and subsequent subduction and sequestration of atmospheric heat and carbon. On the continental margin of the rapidly changing west Antarctic peninsula we have made novel use of autonomous ocean gliders to diagnose the extent, location and dynamics driving the movement of relatively warm water from the open ocean onto the continental shelf, where it has been strongly implicated in driving the basal melting of floating ice shelves. These gliders have also recently been fitted with probes to directly measure the mixing of water masses, something that could previously only be roughly estimated, and have made world first microstructure observations on the continental shelf slope. The gliders have also been instrumental in developing a mechanistic understanding of how continental shelf waters are exported from the mouths of deep glacially-carved troughs into the deep Southern Ocean. This work complements ongoing long term monitoring of the continental shelf waters using more traditional methods on the Antarctic peninsula, where the Polar Oceans programme maintains the longest continuous timeseries of WAP shelf oceanographic observations. This time series has contributed to key diagnostics of the relative importance of sea ice melt vs. changes in continental glacial outflow, as well as novel insights into how interannual variability in sea ice, surface winds and deep warm water impacts shelf water properties, biogeochemistry and Antarctic coastal ecosystems. Further from the continental margin, Polar Oceans have made major contributions to the mapping and quantification of export pathways of deep, dense waters formed around Antarctica to the wider ocean, where they may spread as far north as the North Atlantic. We maintain moorings and regular ship based hydrographic sections that bisect the main pathways of deep water movement from the Weddell Sea to the wider global ocean. These observations have revealed not only long term trends, suggesting that change in the formation regions of deep water (for example increased continental ice melt) are rapidly transmitted into the deep ocean interior, but also significant interannual variability, which we have linked to changes in winds over the Weddell Sea and Antarctic peninsula. As well as quantifying these pathways we have also made insights into the processes that mediate the export of ventilated Weddell Sea water to the deep ocean; including novel use of autonomous submersibles and profiling Argo floats circulating in natural 'washing machines' that act to exchange water across the topography that forms a natural barrier on the northern flank of the Weddell Sea. Within the upwelling regions north of the Antarctic margins, Polar Oceans have demonstrated that there is a clear warming of the upwelling limb of the Southern Ocean overturning circulation in observations over the last several decades. They have linked this change to the observed cooling and, particularly, freshening of surface waters and subsequently demonstrated that such anomalies produce similar interior warming trends in realistic ocean models. Furthermore they have demonstrated that competing mechanisms, notably wind stress and overturning increases, do not produce trends of the right sign to explain the observed trend. They have demonstrated that such trends are reproduced in coupled climate models, but note that the models' inability to accurately recreate the physics driving the trend means that they may have significant inaccuracies in their predicted ocean heat uptake under future climate forcing. Further north in the Antarctic Circumpolar Current, particularly south of Australia and immediately to the west of the Southern tip of Chile there is another important region of vertical transport. Here particular classes of water are formed by winter time cooling and sinking at the surface and subsequently transported northwards into the Pacific, Indian and Atlantic basins. Via high resolution computer modelling, the Polar Oceans Programme have quantified the location and efficiency of these pathways. This work has also led to the development of adjoint model capability, essentially allowing models to be run backwards to examine the role of different forcing factors in setting ultimate subduction values and variability. Another focus of our work is the effect of polar ocean currents upon biology, and specifically on important fisheries. Recent modelling work has investigated the effects of climate change upon different fish species, considering the effects of ocean warming through increased egg and larval mortality and a reduction in the length of the planktonic (drifting) phase. The latest results show that these pressures lead to reduced dispersal of such species between populations at the basin scale, and increased dispersal locally within groups of islands. This would lead to increased isolation of island populations in a warming world, with implications for the resilience of populations and their ability to adapt to ongoing environmental change, a matter of high relevance to fisheries and ecosystem management. Polar Oceans have developed a global adjoint ocean model. This novel tool essentially allows us to define a property of interest, say ocean interior heat content away from the surface, and then run the model 'backwards' to determine what external factors (e.g. wind variability or surface heat flux) act to set the property and drive its variability. This has been used to identify influences on the climatically important Labrador Sea heat budget, including identifying a new influence pathway from the African/European continental shelves, and quantifying the relative importance of local vs non-local surface heat fluxes. This tool forms the basis of ongoing work to identify and quantify the processes driving Southern Ocean heat uptake, both in the immediate surface mixed layer, and further afield in subducted regions. Initial results show a surprising lack of sensitivity to the prevailing westerlies over the ACC, but significant roles for heating in the SAMW regions and dynamics controlling the subtropical gyre circulation. The Polar Oceans group has also started to explore the use of machine learning techniques in oceanographic studies. We have completed an initial study looking at using these techniques to automatically classify Southern Ocean water masses and we are collaborating with colleagues in the Engineering Department of Cambridge University (including joint supervision of a PhD student) to develop methods to remove biases from climate model output. This work has continued to include classification of Weddell Sea Water masses. |
| Exploitation Route | Our developments in instrumentation for observing ocean properties and melt rates beneath floating ice are already being put to use by other groups worldwide. Fundamental understanding of the ocean currents beneath ice shelves will enable parameterisations of these effects to be included into climate models. Global models are just starting to include the interaction between ice sheets and oceans, with the aim of projecting sea-level rise over the coming centuries, so our findings will be essential in ensuring that these model projections are accurate. Understanding the Antarctic sea-ice increase is necessary in order to improve the historical sea ice in climate models, which underpins their ability to predict Antarctic climate change. Similarly, new observations and insights into the role of slope processes in mediating the flow of warm waters into the vicinity of sea-ice and ice shelves will improve our estimates of the rate at which we might expect ice sheets to respond to changes in both ocean properties and wind driven flows. Ongoing observational timeseries monitoring trends and variability of the deep overturning circulation are also a key metric for understanding the response of the global overturning circulation to the ongoing and predicted changes over the Antarctic. Such timeseries are essential for the validation and verification of trends in climate models, where accurately representing the ocean overturning response and consequent feedbacks on climate warming scenarios is critical to accurately estimating future global surface temperatures. The adjoint ocean tool developed in Polar Oceans has been in high demand from other groups both within and external to BAS. It has been used in diagnosing regions of upwelling for Petrel species foraging patterns, to determine the formation regions and export pathways of nutrients in the thermocline and to diagnose the drivers of subduction variability in the Labrador Sea. It has formed the basis for Polar Oceans collaboration on several grant and studentship proposals and is attracting growing interest across the oceanographic community. Our expertise in diagnosing and interpreting coupled climate models in the Southern Ocean has been in demand from groups worldwide seeking to understand the impact that a changing climate will have on ecosystems and future fisheries. The physical system underpins future biogeochemical, biological and ecological changes, but is not always simple to interpret. We currently provide the expertise required to understand the caveats that come with complex ensembles of climate models and assist other groups in interpreting their field specific results in the appropriate context. Research outcomes from Polar Oceans feed directly into policy advice given to Governments. This is manifest most clearly by the input to the IPCC Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate report, which featured a chapter on the Polar Regions led by the Polar Oceans team leader (Mike Meredith). The report as a whole featured inputs from a wide range of Polar Oceans science, and feeds directly into the UN Climate Policy negotiations at the Conference of Parties (CoP) meetings. |
| Sectors | Environment |
| URL | https://www.bas.ac.uk/team/science-teams/oceans/ |
| Description | Our findings have fed into briefings given to a wide range of stakeholders. This has included: * government ministers * MPs * officials from government departments and agencies * government officials from overseas (Mayors from Guangdong province, China; IPCC delegates etc), international organisations (European Bank for Reconstruction and Development; Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources) * regulatory authorities (Prudential Regulation Authority) * business (Jaguar Land Rover, Vestas 11th Hour Racing, Network Rail, Saint Gobain, BNP Paribas), business conferences (Business Green, European Renewables) * students and researchers from other disciplines (BP Institute Masterclass, Leverhulme Climate Justice project, Chemical Engineering Dept, Cambridge) * media professionals (Sheffield Documentary Festival) * the public (Cambridge Science Festival, Ely Science Festival, TEDx talk), community groups and membership organisations (Women's Institute, U3A), school visits (University of Cambridge Primary School). Specific outputs have included policy briefings (CISL briefing on climate and financial risk), online magazine articles, newspaper articles, television and radio interviews, and taught courses (ESA MOOC, Masters in Sustainability, Professional Certificate in Sustainable Business, Professional Certificate in Sustainable Value Chains). * leadership of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's Special Report on Oceans and the Cryosphere. * use of sensitive radar instruments created to observe ice melting rates for monitoring groundwater levels in Morocco * leadership of Foreign and Commonwealth Office report on climate change in the polar regions. The Polar Oceans team made significant media impacts with the opportunistic survey and documentation of the A23a iceberg in November 2023. This led to global media attention, and appearances by PO members on radio, television, print and online media, including a number of live prime-time TV spots. Additionally PO authors were ranked at 7th most impactful climate articles globally in 2023 by Carbonbrief. They have taken prominent leadership roles (including the presidency) of the Challenger society, led impactful Royal Society Meetings, and even been voted into the Times Magazine 100 most influential people, on the basis of their climate research. |
| First Year Of Impact | 2005 |
| Sector | Education,Energy,Environment,Financial Services, and Management Consultancy,Government, Democracy and Justice |
| Impact Types | Cultural Societal Economic Policy & public services |
| Description | Energy & Climate Change Select Committee inquiry into IPCC |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| Impact | Emily Shuckburgh was a witness for the Energy and Climate Change Select Committee's inquiry into the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Fifth Assessment Report, appearing in person and submitting written evidence. |
| URL | http://www.parliament.uk/business/committees/committees-a-z/commons-select/energy-and-climate-change... |
| Description | Government advice on climate science |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Description | Government advice on climate science |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Description | Input to assessments of climate risk in financial sector |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| Impact | Following an expert dialogue in which Dr Emily Shuckburgh participated, a report was written "Stability and Sustainability in Banking Reform - Are Environmental Risks Missing in Basel III?" Dr Shuckburgh also contributed to the Bank of England's report from the Prudential Regulation Authority on Climate Change Adaptation and the UK insurance sector. The impact to-date is a new recognition in the financial regulation sector that climate change is a potential systemic risk that needs to be accounted for. |
| URL | http://www.cisl.cam.ac.uk/business-action/sustainable-finance/banking-environment-initiative/program... |
| Description | Prof Mike Meredith: leadership of Polar Regions chapter in IPCC Special Report on Oceans and Cryosphere |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| URL | https://www.ipcc.ch/report/srocc/ |
| Description | Submitted evidence to CCAMLR WG-EMM |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| URL | https://www.ccamlr.org/en/wg-emm-2019 |
| Description | NERC LTSM NC |
| Amount | £8,400,000 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | NE/N018095/1 |
| Organisation | Natural Environment Research Council |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 03/2016 |
| End | 03/2021 |
| Description | NSFPLR-NERC: Melting at Thwaites grounding zone and its control on sea level (THWAITES-MELT) |
| Amount | £1,174,764 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | NE/S006656/1 |
| Organisation | Natural Environment Research Council |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 06/2018 |
| End | 06/2024 |
| Description | Securing Multidisciplinary UndeRstanding and Prediction of Hiatus and Surge events (SMURPHS) |
| Amount | £96,661 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | NE/N006186/1 |
| Organisation | Natural Environment Research Council |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 12/2015 |
| End | 11/2020 |
| Description | Southern Ocean Carbon and Heat Impact on Climate - SO-CHIC |
| Amount | € 7,989,925 (EUR) |
| Funding ID | 821001 |
| Organisation | European Commission H2020 |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | Belgium |
| Start | 11/2019 |
| End | 10/2023 |
| Description | Southern Ocean carbon indices and metrics (SARDINE) |
| Amount | £44,374 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | NE/T01069X/1 |
| Organisation | Natural Environment Research Council |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 02/2020 |
| End | 01/2023 |
| Description | Studentship with GW4+ DTP (Gen Hinde) |
| Amount | £100,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Natural Environment Research Council |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 09/2017 |
| End | 09/2020 |
| Description | Studentship with SPITFIRE DTP (Rachael Sanders) |
| Amount | £100,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Natural Environment Research Council |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 09/2016 |
| End | 09/2019 |
| Description | Variability in circulation and exchange in a sub-Atlantic island fjord |
| Amount | £100,000 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | 2299690 |
| Organisation | Natural Environment Research Council |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 09/2019 |
| End | 03/2023 |
| Title | A bathymetric compilation around the South Orkney Islands, 1987-2017 |
| Description | We present a new bathymetric compilation around the South Orkney Islands here defined by the following bounding box: 47 to 37 W, 63 to 59 S. This bathymetry grid was compiled from a variety of multibeam swath bathymetry data acquired during 46 different cruises (see lineage). The data is available as a grid of approximately 100 m resolution in a GMT-compatible (2-D) NetCDF format using geographic coordinates on the WGS84 datum. Three versions of the grid are available: the first one shows only swath bathymetry data while the second and third have been merged with the global compilations from the General Bathymetric Chart of the Oceans (GEBCO), GEBCO_2014 (version 20150318) and GEBCO_2019, respectively. Funding was provided by the NERC grants NE/K012843/1 and NE/N018095/1 as well as national capability |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Title | A multibeam-bathymetric compilation for the southern Amundsen Sea shelf, 1999-2019 |
| Description | We present a new compilation of multibeam-bathymetric data for the inner Amundsen Sea continental shelf beyond Thwaites and Pine Island glaciers (bounding box: 100W to 110W, 74S to 75.5S). The region includes Pine Island Bay, marine areas offshore the Thwaites Ice Shelf to the Crosson Ice Shelf, and covers an area of 74,750 km2. The bathymetric grids were compiled from all available multibeam echosounder (MBES) data acquired by UK, German, USA and Korean scientific cruises to the area between 1999 and 2019 (see lineage). Three grids of sea floor elevation data are available in a range of formats (ESRI ascii interchange format and GMT-compatible netCDF 4byte float): a 50-m resolution grid with no interpolation, a 50-m grid interpolated up to 300 m from cells with real data, and a 500-m resolution grid with no interpolation. Note that these grids have not been merged with regional bathymetric grids and, therefore, do not have continuous coverage (i.e. cells are only populated where multibeam data exist). This work was supported by grants from the National Science Foundation (NSF: Grant OPP- 1738942) and Natural Environment Research Council (NERC: Grant NE/S006664/1) as part of the International Thwaites Glacier Collaboration (ITGC) programme, and grants NE/J005770/1 and NE/J005703/1 as part of the iSTAR Programme. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | Not applicable. |
| URL | https://data.bas.ac.uk/full-record.php?id=GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/01364 |
| Title | Airborne synthetic aperture radar ice-sounding depth profiles from Recovery Ice Stream 2016/17, and calibration data from Rothera 2016/17 and 2019/20 |
| Description | This data set corresponds to the processing of data acquired by the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) airborne Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) PASIN2 (Polarimetric Airborne Scientific INstrument, mark 2), designed for deep ice sounding and basal 3D-mapping. The dataset includes the processed calibration data collected over the sea surface near Rothera Research Station during the Antarctic Summers campaigns in 2016/17 FISS (Filchner Ice Shelf System) and 2019/20 BEAMISH (Bed Access, Monitoring and Ice Sheet History) projects, and the processed SAR images as depth profiles in the Recovery Ice Stream near its grounding line, in 2016/17 (FISS). With multiple antennas for transmission and reception at 150-MHz central frequency, and an across-track physical array, PASIN2 resolves the ambiguities for distinguishing between scatterers from port and starboard directions. After processing several 2D SAR images (range and along-track dimensions) with transmitter-receiver pairs, the directional ambiguities are resolved, obtaining the across-track Direction of Arrival (DoA, elevation angle) estimation. Finally, from the 3D geometry of range, along-track and across-track angle, the real depths and across-track distances are estimated, regarding the case of the incorrectly assumed vertical DoA of a single SAR image. The calibration flights assessed and validated the instrument antenna patterns and processing performances. In this dataset, only the simulated and measured antenna patterns, and SAR and DoA images are included. By resolving directional ambiguities and accounting for reflector across-track location, the true ice thickness and bed elevation are obtained, thereby removing the error of the usual assumption of vertical DoA, that greatly influence the output of flow models of ice dynamics. This work was supported by NERC grant reference NE/L013444/1. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | Not applicable |
| URL | https://data.bas.ac.uk/full-record.php?id=GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/01708 |
| Title | Amundsen Sea MITgcm model output forced with CESM1 historical and future climate scenarios, 1920-2100 |
| Description | This dataset provides model output for 20th and 21st-century ice-ocean simulations in the Amundsen Sea. The simulations are performed with the MITgcm model at 1/10 degree resolution, including components for the ocean, sea ice, and ice shelf thermodynamics. Atmospheric forcing is provided by the CESM1 climate model for the historical period (1920-2005) and four future scenarios (2006-2100), using 5-10 ensemble members each. The open ocean boundaries are forced by either the corresponding CESM1 simulation or a present-day climatology. The simulations were completed in 2022 by Kaitlin Naughten at the British Antarctic Survey (Polar Oceans team). UKRI Fund for International Collaboration NE/S011994/1 |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | Not applicable |
| URL | https://data.bas.ac.uk/full-record.php?id=GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/01763 |
| Title | Amundsen Sea MITgcm model output forced with Pacific Pacemaker Ensemble, 1920-2013 |
| Description | This dataset provides model output for 20th-century ice-ocean simulations in the Amundsen Sea, Antarctica. The simulations are performed with the MITgcm model at 1/10 degree resolution, including components for the ocean, sea ice, and ice shelf thermodynamics. Atmospheric forcing is provided by the CESM Pacific Pacemaker Ensemble, using 20 members from 1920-2013. An additional simulation is forced with the ERA5 atmospheric reanalysis from 1920-2013. The simulations were completed in 2021 by Kaitlin Naughten at the British Antarctic Survey (Polar Oceans team). Supported by UKRI Fund for International Collaboration NE/S011994/1. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | Not applicable |
| URL | https://data.bas.ac.uk/full-record.php?id=GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/01606 |
| Title | Autosub Long Range beneath Ronne Ice Shelf (2018): hydrographic, velocity and turbulence observations along the Modified Warm Deep Water Inflow |
| Description | Autosub Long Range (ALR) was deployed along the Modified Warm Deep Water Inflow beneath Ronne Ice Shelf in February 2018 as part of the Ice shelves in a warming world: Filchner Ice Shelf system large grant, Antarctica. The vehicle was equipped with a Seabird Conductivity-Temperature-Depth (CTD) sensor, two Teledyne Acoustic Doppler Current Profilers (ADCPs), one upward looking and one downward looking, and a nose-mounted Rockland Scientific International MicroRider turbulence package. ALR followed a rhumb line course beneath the ice shelf, running approximately parallel to the 400 m isobath. The vehicle alternated between stretches of bottom tracking and top tracking in a square-wave pattern, while maintaining a minimum clearance of 80 m between the vehicle and the ice base or seabed. Funding was provided by the UK Natural Environment Research Council Large Grant Ice shelves in a warming world: Filchner Ice Shelf system, Antarctica (Grant No. NE/L013770/1). |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | Not applicable |
| URL | https://data.bas.ac.uk/full-record.php?id=GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/01672 |
| Title | Basal melt rate beneath Pine Island Ice Shelf (2014) |
| Description | The basal melt rate at a single location beneath Pine Island Ice Shelf was observed using an autonomous phase-sensitive radio echo-sounder (ApRES) during 2014. The ApRES was deployed approximately 10 km from the ice shelf front where the ice was 492 m thick and the ice shelf draft was approximately 422 m. The ApRES was deployed as part of the NERC Ice Sheet Stability Program (iStar). |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2018 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | N/A |
| Title | Borehole data from George VI Ice Shelf |
| Description | Year-long mooring dataset from beneath George VI Ice Shelf between January 2012 and January 2013. Contains turbulence mooring data from two instruments initially at 2.57 m and 13.57 m beneath the ice base. High resolution 3D velocity data and temperature data at two instruments are included, as well as low-resolution thermistor data. The processing of this data was funded by a grant from the Natural Environment Research Council, NE/L002507/1. |
| 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/01590 |
| Title | Borehole thermometry data from Rutford Ice Stream, West Antarctica, 2007 |
| Description | Borehole temperature measurements from the upper 300 m of Rutford Ice Stream. A string of thermistors was installed into a hot-water drilled hole in February 2005. The string comprised 10 calibrated thermistors at approximately 30 m spacing. The temperature measurements provided were taken in February 2007, following ample time for the heat from the drilling process to have dissipated. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | Not applicable. |
| URL | https://data.bas.ac.uk/full-record.php?id=GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/01340 |
| Title | CTD sensor temperature and salinity and CTD Niskin bottle salinity and oxygen isotope data from cruise DY113, February - March 2020 |
| Description | During the ORCHESTRA cruise DY113 (February - March 2020) samples to be analysed for d18O (the ratio of 18O to 16O in the seawater) were taken from 330 Niskin bottles on the SR1b section across Drake Passage, 240 on the A23 section between the Weddell Sea and South Georgia, and 45 in Cumberland Bay, South Georgia, with 10% duplicates. Each bottle was rinsed three times, filled carefully to prevent generation of bubbles right up to the top with a meniscus and capped. After sampling lids were tightened and wrapped with electrical tape, with a line drawn in marker pen to indicate before analysis if they might have loosened in storage or transport. Samples were stored in the +5°C controlled temperature laboratory for return to the UK. The d18O samples were then analysed by the British Geological Survey. Salinity samples drawn from the same Niskin bottles were analysed on board the ship during the cruise using a Guildline Autosal and OSIL IAPSO standard seawater batch P163. The d18O data and sample salinities are presented in this dataset alongside CTD temperature and salinity, which were calibrated by comparison with an SBE35 temperature probe and bottle salinities respectively. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | N/A |
| URL | https://www.bodc.ac.uk/data/published_data_library/catalogue/10.5285/e7efa26d-1fda-26e8-e053-6c86abc... |
| Title | Digital Elevation Models of Thwaites Glacier main trunk (2011-2022) |
| Description | This dataset consists of Digital Elevation Models (DEMs) of the surface elevation of Thwaites Glacier. The region covered includes the floating area of the fast-flowing main trunk of Thwaites Glacier, sometimes referred to as Thwaites West Ice Tongue. The DEMs are derived from TanDEM-X SAR data. There are 172 individual scenes that reveal the geometric evolution of this area between 2011 and 2022. This work was supported by the NERC project CALISMO NE/P011365/1. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | Not applicable |
| URL | https://data.bas.ac.uk/full-record.php?id=GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/01721 |
| Title | Gridded bathymetric compilation of selected areas within the Orkney Passage, Scotia Sea from multibeam echosounder data collected by multiple vessels (1989 - 2017) |
| Description | We present two new gridded bathymetric compilations of the Orkney Passage, Scotia Sea here defined by the following bounding boxes: 39.1 to 39.6 W, 60.55 to 60.7 S and 41.7 to 42.6 W, 60.45 to 60.8 S. These bathymetry grids were compiled from a variety of multibeam swath bathymetry data acquired during 12 different cruises (see lineage). The data is available as grids of 50 m resolution in a GMT-compatible (2-D) NetCDF format using geographic coordinates on the WGS84 datum. This grid was compiled in support of the ongoing monitoring efforts in and around Orkney Passage as part of the Ocean Regulation of Climate by Heat and Carbon Sequestration and Transports (ORCHESTRA) programme and preceding BAS NC projects, and the Dynamics of the Orkney Passage Outflow (DynOPO) project. Funding was provided by the NERC grants NE/K012843/1 and NE/N018095/1 as well as national capability |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| URL | https://data.bas.ac.uk/full-record.php?id=GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/01317 |
| Title | Ice-sounding airborne synthetic aperture radar depth profiles from Recovery Ice Stream 2016/17 and Rutford Ice Strem 2019/20 to test the RGB-Doppler-Decomposition method. |
| Description | This data set corresponds to data acquired by the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) airborne Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) PASIN2 (Polarimetric Airborne Scientific INstrument, mark 2), designed for deep ice sounding and basal 3d-mapping. The data set includes the processed SAR images as depth profiles in the Recovery Ice Stream and Rutford Ice Stream, respectively downstream and upstream of the grounding line, and respectively for the 2016/17 FISS (Filchner Ice Shelf System) and the 2019/20 BEAMISH (Bed Access, Monitoring and Ice Sheet History) projects, both during the Antarctic Summer. With multiple antennas for transmission and reception at 150-MHz central frequency, and an across-track physical array, PASIN2 resolves the ambiguities for distinguishing between scatterers from port and starboard directions; however, in the two SAR images of the current dataset the port/starboard ambiguities are not resolved. On this dataset the user will be able to apply the RGB Doppler Decomposition method in the Doppler domain, interpret the results, and modify the different parameters and colours to contrast the results, all with the outcome of conducting new decompositions according to other datasets and needs. The RGB Spectral Decomposition is a generalised framework to interpret the SAR images: first, the Doppler or range spectral domains are first split into three sub-bandwidths; next, to each of the three a colour of a triplet of colours is assigned; and finally the three are superposed into one single image by the addition of the three colours. If the decomposition is applied on the Doppler spectrum, the new image contains the directional information related to the Doppler frequencies: positive frequencies when the radar approaches the target, near zero frequencies when the relative distance from radar to target is near stationary, and negative when the radar leaves it behind. If the backscattering is characterised by a very broad beamwidth the target will be gray/white, and if by a very narrow beamwidth then the target will be represented by one of the colours of the triplet. This work has received funding from the NERC grant NE/L013444/1, project: Ice shelves in a warming world: Filchner Ice Shelf System (FISS), Antarctica. The 2016/17 data were collected as part of the NERC grant NE/L013770/1, project: Ice shelves in a warming world: Filchner Ice Shelf System (FISS), Antarctica. The 2019/20 data were collected as part of the BAS National Capability contribution to the NERC/NSF International Thwaites Glacier Collaboration (ITGC) program. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | Not applicable |
| URL | https://data.bas.ac.uk/full-record.php?id=GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/01766 |
| Title | Macronutrient, temperature and salinity measurements made around the island of South Georgia and the wider Scotia Sea, the Antarctic Peninsula, and in the Bellingshausen Sea between 1980 and 2009 |
| Description | Between 1980 and 2009, marine macronutrient concentrations (silicate, Si(OH)4-Si; phosphate, PO4-P; nitrate, NO3-N; ammonium, NH4-N; and nitrite, NO2-N) and concurrent temperature and salinity were measured by British Antarctic Survey researchers as part of an integrated ecosystem investigation. Areas sampled included South Georgia and the wider Scotia Sea, around the Antarctic Peninsula, and in the Bellingshausen Sea. The data were collected from aboard the RRS John Biscoe or the RRS James Clark Ross during all months of the year with the exceptions of May and June. Samples were collected from CTD water bottles (vertical profiles) to maximum depth of 5400 m, and by monitoring continuously the ship's non-toxic seawater supply (intake at 6 - 7 m) while the vessel was transecting. Analyses were performed immediately aboard ship and logged to computer while full data analysis was performed post-cruise using custom written software programmes. The data collection was enabled through Natural Environment Research Council National Capability funding to the British Antarctic Survey. This was organised through a series of BAS programmes including the Offshore Biological Research programme, the DYNAMOE programme and the ECOSYSTEMS programme. Data creation was facilitated through a combination of NERC funding for Antarctic Logistics and Infrastructure (ALI) Science and the NERC Science Multi-Centre Round 2 (NCSM2) programme BIOPOLE (NE/W004933/1). |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | Not applicable |
| URL | https://data.bas.ac.uk/full-record.php?id=GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/01648 |
| Title | Model results of Amundsen Sea freshwater tracing and iceberg variation simulations |
| Description | This data set represents the model results plotted in the figures in Bett et al. (2020). Data portrays Amundsen Sea freshwater fluxes and freshwater passive tracer results, along with the results on the effect of grounded icebergs and iceberg melt on sea ice and oceanic heat content. These results are derived from Amundsen Sea regional model simulations over the period 1979-2018, with the first 10 years regarded as model spin up. For full descriptions of the results plotted in each figure see Bett et al. (2020). |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | Not applicable. |
| URL | https://data.bas.ac.uk/full-record.php?id=GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/01365 |
| Title | Observational data and model output for sediment nutrient cycling at Patagonian fjords |
| Description | Glacier meltwater supplies a significant amount of silicon (Si) and iron (Fe) sourced from weathered bedrock to downstream ecosystems. However, the extent to which these essential nutrients reach the ocean is regulated by the nature of the benthic cycling of dissolved Si and Fe within fjord systems, given the rapid deposition of reactive particulate fractions at fjord heads. The dataset is used to examine the benthic cycling of the two nutrients at Patagonian fjord heads through geochemical analyses of sediment pore waters and reaction-transport modeling for Si. The dataset contains: (i) pore water redox-sensitive nitrate (NO3-) and dissolved manganese (dMn) concentration data, nutrient dissolved silicon (DSi) and iron (dFe) concentration and isotope data (delta30 Si, delta56 Fe); (ii) mild alkaline leachable (Si-Alk) and acid leachable (Si-HCl) sediment silica content and isotope data; and (iii) reaction transport model output for the benthic cycling of Si. The pore water and sediment samples were collected from four sites: SJ (48.228o S, 73.502o W, 106 m depth), SH (47.679 S, 73.715 W, 203 m depth), SP (48.179 S, 73.347 W, 248 m depth) and SB (47.787 S, 73.610 W, 151 m depth) in the Baker-Martinez Fjord Complex on the research vessel Sur-Austral in February 2017. Funded by NERC-CONICYT grant NE/P003133/1-PII20150106. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | Not applicable |
| URL | https://data.bas.ac.uk/full-record.php?id=GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/01647 |
| Title | Output from a numerical model of the ocean beneath Larsen C Ice Shelf, Antarctica |
| Description | This dataset contains output from a hydrodynamic model of the ocean in the Larsen C Ice Shelf (LCIS) cavity and a nearby area of the western Wedell Sea. Simulations were run using the MITgcm numerical ocean model and included an ice shelf with steady thickness. A new LCIS bathymetry was used in the simulations, referred to as the 'Brisbourne' bathymetry. The data provided here includes these geometry grids and ocean velocity and basal melt rate fields output from the final year of an arbitrary 10-year simulation, or a 6-month extension run. Calculated marine ice fields beneath the ice shelf based on the simulation's melt rate results are also included. In addition, output from several simulations using different initial and boundary ocean temperature conditions and runs with different cavity geometries are also provided. This work was supported by the Natural Environment Research Council and the EnvEast Doctoral Training Partnership [grant number NE/L002582/1] and PICCOLO [grant number NE/P021395/1]. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | Not applicable |
| URL | https://data.bas.ac.uk/full-record.php?id=GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/01605 |
| Title | Output from model simulations of the ocean beneath Thwaites Glacier, VERSION 2 |
| Description | This is the output from high-resolution model simulations of ocean conditions and melting beneath the floating part of Thwaites Glacier. The model is designed to study how these conditions change as the geometry of Thwaites Glacier evolved from 2011-2022. There is one simulation using the geometry from each year during this period, derived from satellite observations. The simulations are repeated for different ocean model forcing conditions, as described in the associated paper. *******PLEASE BE ADVISED TO USE VERSION 2.0 DATA******* Version 1 had the seabed bathymetry and ice shelf topography files incorrectly oriented. PH was supported by the NERC/NSF Thwaites-MELT project (NE/S006656/1). ITGC contribution number 099. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | Not applicable |
| URL | https://data.bas.ac.uk/full-record.php?id=GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/01779 |
| Title | Output from model simulations of the ocean beneath Thwaites Glacier. |
| Description | This is the output from high-resolution model simulations of ocean conditions and melting beneath the floating part of Thwaites Glacier. The model is designed to study how these conditions change as the geometry of Thwaites Glacier evolved from 2011-2022. There is one simulation using the geometry from each year during this period, derived from satellite observations. The simulations are repeated for different ocean model forcing conditions, as described in the associated paper. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | Not applicable |
| URL | https://data.bas.ac.uk/full-record.php?id=GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/01722 |
| Title | Oxygen isotope and salinity data from JR17003 CTD Niskin bottle samples, January-February 2018. |
| Description | This dataset contains the oxygen isotope (O-18) and salinity data from water samples collected from Niskin bottles on the CTD rosette on cruise JR17003, the 2018 repeat of the A23 section from the shelf break southeast of South Georgia, south through the eastern Scotia Sea, and into the northern Weddell Sea. In addition to the stations on the A23 section, four stations were occupied on the West Antarctic Peninsula, one station with two casts near the South Orkney Islands, 23 stations in King Haakon Bay and on the surrounding continental shelf (one of which included O-18 samples), and one cast was made near the BAS long-term mooring site P3 northwest of South Georgia. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | N/A |
| URL | https://www.bodc.ac.uk/data/published_data_library/catalogue/10.5285/e4c8d396-13d0-3186-e053-6c86abc... |
| Title | Oxygen isotope, dissolved oxygen, and salinity data from JC211 CTD Niskin bottle samples, February-March 2021. |
| Description | This dataset contains the oxygen isotope (O-18), dissolved oxygen, and salinity data from water samples collected from Niskin bottles on the CTD rosette on cruise JC211, February-March 2021. This cruise was formed from four separate tasks: the Polar Ocean Ecosystems Time Series (POETS) north of South Georgia; observations near iceberg A-68A southeast of South Georgia; the A23 oceanographic transect from the shelf break southeast of South Georgia, south through the eastern Scotia Sea, and into the northern Weddell Sea; and the SR1b oceanographic transect from Elephant Island off the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula to Burdwood Bank south of the Falkland Islands. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | N/A |
| URL | https://www.bodc.ac.uk/data/published_data_library/catalogue/10.5285/e4e45cd9-f1c1-5b7a-e053-6c86abc... |
| Title | Phase-sensitive radar (ApRES) time series data from Thwaites eastern ice shelf, 2020 |
| Description | The dataset comprises ApRES (Autonomous phase-sensitive Radio Echo Sounder) time series from four sites (G1-4) through the grounding zone of the eastern Thwaites ice shelf. The instruments were deployed in early 2020 and recovered in early 2021 as part of the International Thwaites Glacier Collaboration (ITGC) MELT project. The aim was to provide time series of basal melt rates and the vertical strain rate at each site. The ApRES DAT files were converted to netCDF for publication. Each burst in an ApRES file maps straightforwardly to a group in the corresponding netCDF file. This is a lossless, reversible process. The data were acquired under funding from ITGC: NE/S006656/1. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | Not applicable |
| URL | https://data.bas.ac.uk/full-record.php?id=GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/01641 |
| Title | Processed airborne radio-echo sounding data from the FISS 2015 survey covering the Foundation Ice Stream, Bungenstock Ice Rise, and the Filchner Ice Shelf system, West Antarctica (2015/2016) |
| Description | An airborne radar survey was flown during the austral summer of 2015/16 over the Foundation Ice Stream, Bungenstock Ice Rise, and the Filchner ice shelf as part of the 5-year Filchner Ice Shelf System (FISS) project. This project was a NERC-funded (grant reference number: NE/L013770/1) collaborative initiative between the British Antarctic Survey, the National Oceanography Centre, the Met Office Hadley Centre, University College London, the University of Exeter, Oxford University, and the Alfred Wenger Institute to investigate how the Filchner Ice Shelf might respond to a warmer world, and what the impact of sea-level rise could be by the middle of this century. The 2015/16 aerogeophysics survey acquired ~7,000 line km of aerogeophysical data with a particular focus on the Foundation Ice Stream. Our Twin Otter aircraft was equipped with dual-frequency carrier-phase GPS for navigation, radar altimeter for surface mapping, wing-tip magnetometers, and a new ice-sounding radar system (PASIN-2). We present here the full radar dataset consisting of the deep-sounding chirp and shallow-sounding pulse-acquired data in their processed form, as well as the navigational information of each trace, the surface and bed elevation picks, ice thickness, and calculated absolute surface and bed elevations. This dataset comes primarily in the form of NetCDF and georeferenced SEGY files. To interactively engage with this newly-published dataset, we also created segmented quicklook PDF files of the radar data. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | Not applicable |
| URL | https://data.bas.ac.uk/full-record.php?id=GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/01570 |
| Title | Processed airborne radio-echo sounding data from the FISS 2016 surveys covering the Filchner and Halley Ice Shelves, and the English Coast (western Palmer Land), West Antarctica (2016/2017) |
| Description | Three separate airborne radar surveys were flown during the austral summer of 2016/17 over the Filchner Ice Shelf and Halley Ice Shelf (West Antarctica), and over the outlet glacier flows of the English Coast (western Palmer Land, Antarctic Peninsula) during the Filchner Ice Shelf System (FISS) project. This project was a NERC-funded (grant reference number: NE/L013770/1) collaborative initiative between the British Antarctic Survey, the National Oceanography Centre, the Met Office Hadley Centre, University College London, the University of Exeter, Oxford University, and the Alfred Wenger Institute to investigate how the Filchner Ice Shelf might respond to a warmer world, and what the impact of sea-level rise could be by the middle of this century. The 2016/17 aerogeophysics surveys acquired a total of ~26,000 line km of aerogeophysical data. The FISS survey consisted of 17 survey flights totalling ~16,000 km of radar data over the Support Force, Recovery, Slessor, and Bailey ice streams of the Filchner Ice Shelf. The Halley Ice Shelf survey consisted of ~4,600 km spread over 5 flights and covering the area around the BAS Halley 6 station and the Brunt Ice Shelf. The English Coast survey consisted of ~5,000 km spread over 7 flights departing from the Sky Blu basecamp and linking several outlet glacier flows and the grounding line of the western Palmer Land, including the ENVISAT, CRYOSAT, GRACE, Landsat, Sentinel, ERS, Hall, Nikitin and Lidke ice streams. Our Twin Otter aircraft was equipped with dual-frequency carrier-phase GPS for navigation, radar altimeter for surface mapping, wing-tip magnetometers, an iMAR strapdown gravity system, and a new ice-sounding radar system (PASIN-2). We present here the full radar dataset consisting of the deep-sounding chirp and shallow-sounding pulse-acquired data in their processed form, as well as the navigational information of each trace, the surface and bed elevation picks, ice thickness, and calculated absolute surface and bed elevations. This dataset comes primarily in the form of NetCDF and georeferenced SEGY files. To interactively engage with this newly-published dataset, we also created segmented quicklook PDF files of the radar data. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | Not applicable |
| URL | https://data.bas.ac.uk/full-record.php?id=GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/01571 |
| Title | Processed bed elevation picks from airborne radar depth sounding from the FISS 2015 survey covering the Foundation Ice Stream and the Filchner Ice Shelf system (2015/2016) |
| Description | This dataset contains bed and surface elevation picks derived from airborne radar collected in 2015/16 over Foundation Ice Stream and Filchner Ice Shelf as part of the 5-year Filchner Ice Shelf System (FISS) project funded by NERC (grant reference number: NE/L013770/1) and awarded to the British Antarctic Survey with contribution from the National Oceanography Centre, the Met Office Hadley Centre, University College London, the University of Exeter, Oxford University, and the Alfred Wenger Institute. The aim of this project was to investigate how the Filchner Ice Shelf might respond to a warmer world, and what the impact of sea-level rise could be by the middle of this century. This collaborative initiative collected ~7,000 line-km of new aerogeophysical data using the 150MHz PASIN radar echo sounding system (Corr et al., 2007) deployed on a British Antarctic Survey (BAS) Twin Otter. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | Not applicable |
| URL | https://data.bas.ac.uk/full-record.php?id=GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/01572 |
| Title | Processed bed elevation picks from airborne radar depth sounding from the FISS 2016 survey covering the Filchner and Halley Ice Shelves (2016/2017) |
| Description | This dataset contains bed and surface elevation picks derived from airborne radar collected in 2016/17 over the Filchner Ice Shelf and Halley Ice Shelf (West Antarctica) as part of the 5-year Filchner Ice Shelf System (FISS) project funded by NERC (grant reference number: NE/L013770/1) and awarded to the British Antarctic Survey with contribution from the National Oceanography Centre, the Met Office Hadley Centre, University College London, the University of Exeter, Oxford University, and the Alfred Wenger Institute. The aim of this project was to investigate how the Filchner Ice Shelf might respond to a warmer world, and what the impact of sea-level rise could be by the middle of this century. This collaborative initiative collected ~15,000 line-km of new aerogeophysical data using the 150MHz PASIN radar echo sounding system (Corr et al., 2007) deployed on a British Antarctic Survey (BAS) Twin Otter. The majority of flights were flown as part of FISS over the Support Force, Recovery, Slessor, and Bailey ice streams. Separate flights over Halley 6 research station and Brunt Ice Shelf were also collected as part of this season. The bed and surface elevation picks for the English Coast part of this season are available at: https://doi.org/10.5285/e07d62bf-d58c-4187-a019-59be998939cc. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | Not applicable |
| URL | https://data.bas.ac.uk/full-record.php?id=GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/01573 |
| Title | Quasi-weekly, year-round oceanographic and ice measurements at the coastal Western Antarctic Peninsula from 1997 to 2018 |
| Description | Year-round measurements of the water column in Ryder Bay, Western Antarctic Peninsula have been collected by the Rothera Marine Assistant and associated researchers, starting in 1997 as part of the Rothera Oceanographic and Biological Time Series (RATS) to assess temporal variability in physical and biogeochemical oceanographic properties. The data were collected using instrumentation deployed from rigid inflatable boats, or through instrumentation deployed through holes cut in the sea ice when the bay is frozen over in winter. Data collected include profiles to about 500m depth with a conductivity-temperature-depth (CTD) system that produces measurements of temperature, salinity, fluorescence and photosynthetically-active radiation (PAR). Individual water samples are collected with a Niskin bottle from a standard 15m depth, with some samples also collected from the surface layer. These individual samples are analysed for size-fractionated chlorophyll, macronutrients (nitrate, nitrite, ammonium, orthophosphate and silicic acid), stable isotopes of oxygen in seawater, and some ancillary parameters. The bottle data have been quality controlled using international reference standards. Profiling and water sample collection occur with quasi-weekly frequency in summer and weekly in winter, but are weather and sea ice dependent. In addition, daily assessments of sea ice concentration and sea ice type are made from nearby Rothera Research Station by visual inspection, to aid interpretation of the ocean data collected. These data constitute one of the longest time series of ocean measurements in Antarctica, with near-unique systematic data collection in winter, within either polar circle. Data collection has been supported since 1997 by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) through core funding supplied to the British Antarctic Survey. Since 2017, it has been supported by NERC award "National Capability - Polar Expertise Supporting UK Research" (NE/R016038/1). |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | Not applicable |
| URL | https://data.bas.ac.uk/full-record.php?id=GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/01683 |
| Title | Quasi-weekly, year-round oceanographic and ice measurements at the coastal Western Antarctic Peninsula from 1997 to 2018 |
| Description | Year-round measurements of the water column in Ryder Bay, Western Antarctic Peninsula have been collected by the Rothera Marine Assistant and associated researchers, starting in 1997 as part of the Rothera Oceanographic and Biological Time Series (RATS) to assess temporal variability in physical and biogeochemical oceanographic properties. The data were collected using instrumentation deployed from rigid inflatable boats, or through instrumentation deployed through holes cut in the sea ice when the bay is frozen over in winter. Data collected include profiles to about 500m depth with a conductivity-temperature-depth (CTD) system that produces measurements of temperature, salinity, fluorescence and photosynthetically-active radiation (PAR). Individual water samples are collected with a Niskin bottle from a standard 15m depth, with some samples also collected from the surface layer. These individual samples are analysed for size-fractionated chlorophyll, macronutrients (nitrate, nitrite, ammonium, orthophosphate and silicic acid), stable isotopes of oxygen in seawater, and some ancillary parameters. The bottle data have been quality controlled using international reference standards. Profiling and water sample collection occur with quasi-weekly frequency in summer and weekly in winter, but are weather and sea ice dependent. In addition, daily assessments of sea ice concentration and sea ice type are made from nearby Rothera Research Station by visual inspection, to aid interpretation of the ocean data collected. These data constitute one of the longest time series of ocean measurements in Antarctica, with near-unique systematic data collection in winter, within either polar circle. Data collection has been supported since 1997 by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) through core funding supplied to the British Antarctic Survey. Since 2017, it has been supported by NERC award "National Capability - Polar Expertise Supporting UK Research" (NE/R016038/1). |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | Not applicable |
| URL | https://data.bas.ac.uk/full-record.php?id=GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/01683 |
| Title | Sea Ice Area climatologies and 21st century change in the CMIP5 and CMIP6 multi-model ensembles |
| Description | This dataset comprises summary statistics regarding historical and projected Southern Hemisphere total sea ice area (SIA) and 21st century global temperature change (dTAS), evaluated from the multi-model ensembles contributing to CMIP5 and CMIP6 (Coupled Model Intercomparison Project phases 5 and 6). The metrics are evaluated for two climatological periods (1979-2014 and 2081-2100) from a number of CMIP experiments; historical, and ScenarioMIP or RCP runs. These metrics were calculated to calculate projections of future Antarctic sea ice loss, and drivers of ensemble spread in this variable, for Holmes et al. (2022) "Antarctic sea ice projections constrained by historical ice cover and future global temperature change". Funding was provided by the British Antarctic Survey Polar Science for Planet Earth Programme and under NERC large grant NE/N01829X/1 |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | Not applicable |
| URL | https://data.bas.ac.uk/full-record.php?id=GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/01640 |
| Title | Seawater stable isotope sample measurements from the Antarctic Circumnavigation Expedition (ACE) |
| Description | Haumann, F. A., Leonard, K., Meredith, M. P., Arrowsmith, C., Gorodetskaya, I. V., Hutchings, J., Lehning, M., Leng, M. J., Stammerjohn, S., Tsukernik, M., Weber, Y. (2019): Seawater stable isotope sample measurements from the Antarctic Circumnavigation Expedition (ACE). doi:10.5281/zenodo.1494915. ace_18_data_d18o_dd_ctd_20190219.csv Contains oxygen and hydrogen isotopic composition of seawater samples collected from the Niskin bottles mounted on the CTD rosette ace_18_data_d18o_dd_uw_20190219.csv Contains oxygen and hydrogen isotopic composition of seawater samples collected from the underway line ace_18_data_d18o_dd_other_20190219.csv Contains oxygen isotopic composition of miscellaneous samples: A duplicate seawater sample from the underway line (UW_B); a seawater bucket sample from Cumberland Bay, South Georgia (bucket); terrestrial ice/snow sample from the surface (TS) and 0.5m deep hole (T05) collected on a drifting tabular ice berg; seawater samples from Niskin bottles mounted on the trace-metal rosette (TMR). |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | This data set contains oxygen and hydrogen isotope measurements from discrete seawater samples that were collected in the Southern Ocean (south of 30 deg S) during the Antarctic Circumnavigation Expedition (ACE). 637 samples were collected during the period December 24th, 2016 and March 18th, 2017 in the Southern Ocean from the surface ocean using the ship's underway line (UW; 338 samples) and in vertical profiles using Niskin bottles mounted on the CTD rosette (287 samples). A few additional samples were collected from a parallel cast with a trace-metal rosette, with a bucket, and from the surface of a tabular iceberg. All samples were analyzed for their oxygen isotopic composition (reported as permille deviation of the oxygen-18 to oxygen-16 ratio from VSMOW2: DEL18O) and a few samples (80) from the Pacific sector were analyzed for their hydrogen isotopic composition (reported as permille deviation of the hydrogen to deuterium ratio from VSMOW2: DELD) by mass spectrometry at the British Geological Survey. This circumpolar data set provides insights into the hydrological cycle of the Southern Ocean and the processes (precipitation, evaporation, sea-ice melting and freezing, iceberg and land-ice melting) that determine the salinity of a certain water mass. |
| URL | https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1494915 |
| Title | Sediment trap fluxes and stable isotopes of particulate carbon, nitrogen and biogenic silica from the Scotia Sea in 2018 |
| Description | Results of sediment trap analysis conducted by British Antarctic Survey, University of Edinburgh and University of Bristol. Particulate fluxes and isotopic compositions of particulate organic carbon, nitrogen and biogenic silica are presented. Data from two sediment traps deployed in the Scotia Sea, Southern Ocean, are presented (shallow=400m, and deep = 2000m), with 14 samples for each spread across the year 2018 to capture the seasonal cycle from January to December. Each sample was split into multiple fractions for these multiple analyses. Data facilitate the understanding of the magnitude and drivers of particulate fluxes in the Scotia Sea, Southern Ocean. Work funded by NC-ALI funding to the British Antarctic Survey Ecosystems programme. Sian Henley supported by: NE/K010034/1. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | Not applicable |
| URL | https://data.bas.ac.uk/full-record.php?id=GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/01761 |
| Title | Seismic bathymetry data, Antarctic Peninsula, Larsen C Ice Shelf, 2016 |
| Description | In 2016, a series of ice shelf cavity bathymetry point measurements were made across Larsen C Ice Shelf, West Antarctica. The sites were selected to address deficiencies in the coverage provided by existing data sets. A hammer and plate seismic source was used. Seismic reflection data were recorded on 24 receivers at 10 m interval and 30 m offset. Sea bed reflections are observed at all sites. Surface elevation measurements are provided to allow estimation of ice thickness when an ice base reflection is not visible. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | N/A |
| Title | Summary of BODC holdings for ORCHESTRA |
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JR15006 Underway JR15006 Migration to Series- Navigation and bathymetry 31/12/2017 00:00 Ingestion completed JR15006 Underway JR15006 Migration to Series- Meteorology 31/12/2017 00:00 Ingestion completed JR15006 Underway JR15006 Migration to Series- Surface Hydrography 31/12/2017 00:00 Ingestion completed JR15006 SADCP (75 kHz) 01/11/2016 00:00 No further action required JR15006 Water samples collected in pools on land for salinity and d18O analysis 01/11/2016 00:00 No further action required JR15006 Ice core samples for salinity and d18O analysis 01/11/2016 00:00 No further action required JR16002 Water samples for d18O analysis from CTD bottles 31/07/2017 00:00 Auditing in progress JR16002 Continuous underway nav, met and tsg 01/07/2017 00:00 Ingestion completed JR16002 30 CTD casts 01/07/2017 00:00 Ingestion completed JR16002 30 LADCP profiles 01/07/2017 00:00 Ingestion completed JR16002 CTD upcast data 01/07/2017 00:00 Ingestion completed JR16002 Water samples for salinity, oxygen and SBE35 01/06/2017 00:00 Ingestion completed JR16002 Navigation and Bathymetry Migration to series schema (NAV) 20/11/2017 00:00 Ingestion completed JR16002 Continuous surface hydrography data - migration to series schema (SURF) 20/11/2017 00:00 Ingestion completed JR16002 Continuous Meteorological Data - Migration to series schema (MET) 20/11/2017 00:00 Ingestion completed JR16002 3 Deep Apex float deployments 01/07/2017 00:00 No further action required JR16002 SADCP data from cruise JR16002 30/06/2017 00:00 No further action required JR16004 CTD profiles for A23 repeat section 22/03/2018 00:00 Ingestion completed JR16004 LADCP profiles for A23 repeat section 22/03/2018 00:00 Processing in progress JR17001 SADCP measurements for JR17001 30/06/2018 00:00 Auditing in progress JR17001 41 CTD casts 30/06/2018 00:00 Ingestion completed JR17001 41 LADCP casts 30/06/2018 00:00 Ingestion completed JR17001 8 XBT deployment 30/06/2018 00:00 Ingestion completed JR17001 5 Slocum gliders deployed (#632, 633, 408, 330, 424) 30/06/2018 00:00 No further action required JR17001 1 Seaglider deployment (# 640) CTD, EcoPuck, dissolved oxygen, optode, PAR, acousonde 30/06/2018 00:00 No further action required JR17001 1 SW Waveglider deployed 30/06/2018 00:00 No further action required JR17001 4 Deep Apex floats deployed (#21, 18, 19, 20) 30/06/2018 00:00 No further action required JR17001 3 Arvor AI2600 floats deployed (#16FR091, 16FR092 and 16FR093) 30/06/2018 00:00 No further action required JR17001 Slocum Glider (BAS) #632 - near real time dataset 23/07/2018 00:00 No further action required JR17001 Slocum Glider (BAS) #633 - near real time dataset 23/07/2018 00:00 No further action required JR17001 Slocum Glider #424 (NOC) - near real time dataset 01/07/2018 00:00 No further action required JR17001 Slocum Glider #408 - near real time dataset 01/07/2018 00:00 No further action required JR17001 Slocum Glider #330 - near real time dataset 01/07/2018 00:00 No further action required JR17001 Slocum Glider (NOC) #424 - microstructure data 01/07/2018 00:00 No further action required JR17001 Water samples from 41 CTD casts (salinity, oxygen, SBE35 data) 30/06/2018 00:00 Processing in progress JR17001 Underway: navigation series 30/06/2018 00:00 Processing in progress JR17001 CTD-upcast data from 41 stations (temperature, salinity, dissolved oxygen) 30/06/2018 00:00 Processing in progress JR17001 Underway: meteorology series 30/06/2018 00:00 Processing in progress JR17001 Underway: sea surface hydrography series 30/06/2018 00:00 Processing in progress JR17003 60 CTD casts (temperature/conductivity sensors, dissolved oxygen, transmissometer, fluorometer, PAR) 31/08/2018 00:00 Ingestion completed JR17003 60 LADCP casts (Down and upward looking) 31/08/2018 00:00 Ingestion completed JR17003 SADCP (75 kHz) 31/08/2018 00:00 Processing in progress JC159 CTD casts 31/10/2018 00:00 Ingestion completed JC159 LADCP profiles 31/10/2018 00:00 No further action required JC159 Multibeam Bathymetry data from EM122 01/07/2018 00:00 No further action required JC159 Oxygen and nutrient data from CTD bottles 27/09/2018 00:00 Processing in progress JC159 DIC and Alkalinity samples from CTD bottles 27/09/2018 00:00 Processing in progress JC159 Salinity samples from CTD bottles 27/09/2018 00:00 Processing in progress JC159 Continuous underway measurements (Navigation and Bathymetry, Meteorology, Surface hydrography) 31/10/2018 00:00 Processing in progress JC159 SADCP (75 kHz) 31/10/2018 00:00 Processing in progress JC159 SADCP (150 kHz) 31/10/2018 00:00 Received |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2017 |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | Glider data is visible through the MARS portal |
| URL | https://orchestra.ac.uk/data/ |
| Title | Thwaites MELT: Conductivity, Temperature and Depth (CTD) profiles from the grounding zone region of Thwaites Glacier Eastern ice shelf (2020) |
| Description | Conductivity, Temperature and Depth (CTD) profiles were collected in the grounding zone region of Thwaites Glacier Eastern Ice Shelf in January 2020 as part of the International Thwaites Glacier Collaboration MELT project. Using a borehole deployable CTD system (SBE49), 15 profiles were collected over a period of 4 days between January 9th and January 12th to observe the hydrographic structure of the water column. The profiles extended from the ice base (520 dbar) to approximately 5 m above the seabed (575 dbar). Funding was provided by NSFPLR-NERC: Melting at Thwaites grounding zone and its control on sea level (THWAITES-MELT) NE/S006761/1. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | Not applicable. |
| URL | https://data.bas.ac.uk/full-record.php?id=GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/01469 |
| Title | Thwaites MELT: Temperature, salinity and velocity time series from the grounding zone region of Thwaites Glacier Eastern ice shelf (2020) |
| Description | Variability in temperature, salinity and velocity was observed approximately 1.5 m beneath the base of Thwaites Glacier in the grounding zone region of the Eastern Ice Shelf as part of the International Thwaites Glacier Collaboration MELT project. Using a borehole deployable turbulence instrument cluster, the average temperature, salinity and velocity was observed over a 15-minute period every 2 hours. Funding was provided by NSFPLR-NERC: Melting at Thwaites grounding zone and its control on sea level (THWAITES-MELT) NE/S006761/1. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | Not applicable. |
| URL | https://data.bas.ac.uk/full-record.php?id=GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/01468 |
| Title | Turbulence beneath Larsen C Ice Shelf, Antarctica (2012) (Version 1.0) |
| Description | Turbulent velocity fluctuations in the ice shelf-ocean boundary layer beneath Larsen C Ice Shelf were observed using two turbulence instrument clusters (TICs) deployed 2.5 m and 13.5 m beneath the ice shelf base in December 2011. Each TIC sampled the velocity fluctuations at a rate of 5 Hz, and were operated in burst mode with 15 minutes of data being collected every two hours. 4600 bursts were collected over a period of 392 days. 320 bursts failed the quality control checks, and were removed from the dataset. The TICs were deployed as part of the UK Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) Sub Ice Shelf Boundary Layer Experiment. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | N/A |
| Title | Water column and ice thickness measurements of the Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf derived from point seismic observations collected between 2015-2017 |
| Description | This data are derived from single point seismic data collected across the Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf. The seismic data were collected over the course of three seasons by a number of field parties, consisting of two main surveys between the 15/16 and 16/17 austral summers and several smaller surveys, as part of a joint initiative between the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) and the Alfred-Wegener-Institute (AWI) in the framework of the "Filchner Ice Shelf System" (FISS) and the "Filchner Ice Shelf Project" (FISP). A total of 256 point seismic measurements were made, of which 248 had clearly visible reflectors and were deemed usable. Each data point consists of a location, together with measurements of ice thickness and water column thickness. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2018 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | N/A |
| Description | Diverse international collaborations with leading marine/polar institutes |
| Organisation | Alfred-Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research |
| Country | Germany |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | There is a huge range of national/international partnerships that underpin the Polar Oceans research programme; above are key examples of with whom we collaborate - but there are many others. |
| Collaborator Contribution | There is a huge range of national/international partnerships that underpin the Polar Oceans research programme; above are key examples of with whom we collaborate - but there are many others. |
| Impact | Very many research papers and key findings have derived from these collaborations - see separate sections for details. |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Description | Diverse international collaborations with leading marine/polar institutes |
| Organisation | British Geological Survey |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | There is a huge range of national/international partnerships that underpin the Polar Oceans research programme; above are key examples of with whom we collaborate - but there are many others. |
| Collaborator Contribution | There is a huge range of national/international partnerships that underpin the Polar Oceans research programme; above are key examples of with whom we collaborate - but there are many others. |
| Impact | Very many research papers and key findings have derived from these collaborations - see separate sections for details. |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Description | Diverse international collaborations with leading marine/polar institutes |
| Organisation | National Oceanography Centre |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | There is a huge range of national/international partnerships that underpin the Polar Oceans research programme; above are key examples of with whom we collaborate - but there are many others. |
| Collaborator Contribution | There is a huge range of national/international partnerships that underpin the Polar Oceans research programme; above are key examples of with whom we collaborate - but there are many others. |
| Impact | Very many research papers and key findings have derived from these collaborations - see separate sections for details. |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Description | Diverse international collaborations with leading marine/polar institutes |
| Organisation | Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) |
| Country | Netherlands |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | There is a huge range of national/international partnerships that underpin the Polar Oceans research programme; above are key examples of with whom we collaborate - but there are many others. |
| Collaborator Contribution | There is a huge range of national/international partnerships that underpin the Polar Oceans research programme; above are key examples of with whom we collaborate - but there are many others. |
| Impact | Very many research papers and key findings have derived from these collaborations - see separate sections for details. |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Description | Diverse international collaborations with leading marine/polar institutes |
| Organisation | Norwegian Polar Institute |
| Country | Norway |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | There is a huge range of national/international partnerships that underpin the Polar Oceans research programme; above are key examples of with whom we collaborate - but there are many others. |
| Collaborator Contribution | There is a huge range of national/international partnerships that underpin the Polar Oceans research programme; above are key examples of with whom we collaborate - but there are many others. |
| Impact | Very many research papers and key findings have derived from these collaborations - see separate sections for details. |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Description | Diverse international collaborations with leading marine/polar institutes |
| Organisation | University of California, San Diego (UCSD) |
| Department | Scripps Institution of Oceanography |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | There is a huge range of national/international partnerships that underpin the Polar Oceans research programme; above are key examples of with whom we collaborate - but there are many others. |
| Collaborator Contribution | There is a huge range of national/international partnerships that underpin the Polar Oceans research programme; above are key examples of with whom we collaborate - but there are many others. |
| Impact | Very many research papers and key findings have derived from these collaborations - see separate sections for details. |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Description | Diverse international collaborations with leading marine/polar institutes |
| Organisation | University of East Anglia |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | There is a huge range of national/international partnerships that underpin the Polar Oceans research programme; above are key examples of with whom we collaborate - but there are many others. |
| Collaborator Contribution | There is a huge range of national/international partnerships that underpin the Polar Oceans research programme; above are key examples of with whom we collaborate - but there are many others. |
| Impact | Very many research papers and key findings have derived from these collaborations - see separate sections for details. |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Description | Diverse international collaborations with leading marine/polar institutes |
| Organisation | University of Groningen |
| Country | Netherlands |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | There is a huge range of national/international partnerships that underpin the Polar Oceans research programme; above are key examples of with whom we collaborate - but there are many others. |
| Collaborator Contribution | There is a huge range of national/international partnerships that underpin the Polar Oceans research programme; above are key examples of with whom we collaborate - but there are many others. |
| Impact | Very many research papers and key findings have derived from these collaborations - see separate sections for details. |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Description | Diverse international collaborations with leading marine/polar institutes |
| Organisation | University of Southampton |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | There is a huge range of national/international partnerships that underpin the Polar Oceans research programme; above are key examples of with whom we collaborate - but there are many others. |
| Collaborator Contribution | There is a huge range of national/international partnerships that underpin the Polar Oceans research programme; above are key examples of with whom we collaborate - but there are many others. |
| Impact | Very many research papers and key findings have derived from these collaborations - see separate sections for details. |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Description | Diverse international collaborations with leading marine/polar institutes |
| Organisation | Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | There is a huge range of national/international partnerships that underpin the Polar Oceans research programme; above are key examples of with whom we collaborate - but there are many others. |
| Collaborator Contribution | There is a huge range of national/international partnerships that underpin the Polar Oceans research programme; above are key examples of with whom we collaborate - but there are many others. |
| Impact | Very many research papers and key findings have derived from these collaborations - see separate sections for details. |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Description | International Thwaites Glacier Collaboration |
| Organisation | New York University |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Melting at Thwaites grounding zone and its control on sea level (MELT). MELT is an ice-based project to understand how warm waters are affecting the Thwaites Glacier at the grounding line - the point where the glacier goes afloat to become ice shelf. This will allow the glacier's potential sea-level contribution to be more accurately predicted. Hot water drilling will be used to make access holes through the glacier to monitor the ice column and the underlying water. Icefin, a state-of-the-art remotely-operated vehicle containing instruments such as conductivity-temperature-depth (CTD) sensors, an acoustic Doppler current profiler, a camera, a dissolved oxygen sensor and a multi-beam echosounder, will be deployed via the boreholes to examine the waters beneath the ice shelf. Ocean moorings will be used to monitor the ocean conditions for a year or more and ground-based phase-sensitive radar (ApRES) will monitor the basal melt rate. The project will also use repeated airborne radar flights to study the way the ice flows in this area, and seismic surveys to study the ocean floor beneath the ice shelf. Data gathered in the field will enhance our understanding of how ocean conditions are affecting the melt rate of Thwaites Glacier. When this is combined with ice sheet models it will allow the glacier's potential sea-level contribution to be more accurately predicted. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The US partners will deploy numerical modelling and remote sensing techniques to leverage the field observations. |
| Impact | Collaboration just begun. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Joint UK-US partnership in the DynOPO project |
| Organisation | Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | This NERC award has funded the fieldwork, equipment and scientist/technician time for a major programme investigating the dynamics that control dense water export from the Southern Ocean. The UK participants provide expertise on ocean dynamics, physical oceanography, marine technology (including deep-ocean moorings and an autonomous submarine), and numerical modelling. |
| Collaborator Contribution | NSF have funded a parallel project, led by Prof. Kurt Polzin of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Massachusetts. This is providing extra ocean equipment, and allowing the participation of Prof. Polzin in the fieldwork elements and analyses. There is also participation from Profs. Sonya Legg and Stephen Griffies of the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, who are adding unique capability in ultra-high resolution modelling and climate modelling. |
| Impact | Collaboration has greatly enhanced the planning of the field campaign, which is very soon to commence. Collaboration will strengthen the quality and impact of subsequent outputs, due following completion of the fieldwork. |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Description | ORCHESTRA as an enabler of community science |
| Organisation | Meteorological Office UK |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Aside from extensive collaborations within the ORCHESTRA centres and the Met Office, active ORCHESTRA related collaborations are ongoing with three separate grant bids into the RoSES call and two large grant bids (SOO-SPLENDID/TICTOC). Active collaborations are underway with researchers from the University of Newcastle, University of Southampton, University of Gothenburg, Washington State University, L'OCEAN Paris, the University of Tasmania, and very many others. These collaborations have strengthened ORCHESTRA science by enabling and drawing benefit from non-NC funded science, and is in line with the ethos of LTSM science enabling the broader community. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Aside from extensive collaborations within the ORCHESTRA centres and the Met Office, active ORCHESTRA related collaborations are ongoing with three separate grant bids into the RoSES call and two large grant bids (SOO-SPLENDID/TICTOC). Active collaborations are underway with researchers from the University of Newcastle, University of Southampton, University of Gothenburg, Washington State University, L'OCEAN Paris, the University of Tasmania, and very many others. These collaborations have strengthened ORCHESTRA science by enabling and drawing benefit from non-NC funded science, and is in line with the ethos of LTSM science enabling the broader community. |
| Impact | See Publications, many of which are direct collaborations with non-ORCHESTRA institutes. |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | ORCHESTRA as an enabler of community science |
| Organisation | Pierre and Marie Curie University - Paris 6 |
| Country | France |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Aside from extensive collaborations within the ORCHESTRA centres and the Met Office, active ORCHESTRA related collaborations are ongoing with three separate grant bids into the RoSES call and two large grant bids (SOO-SPLENDID/TICTOC). Active collaborations are underway with researchers from the University of Newcastle, University of Southampton, University of Gothenburg, Washington State University, L'OCEAN Paris, the University of Tasmania, and very many others. These collaborations have strengthened ORCHESTRA science by enabling and drawing benefit from non-NC funded science, and is in line with the ethos of LTSM science enabling the broader community. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Aside from extensive collaborations within the ORCHESTRA centres and the Met Office, active ORCHESTRA related collaborations are ongoing with three separate grant bids into the RoSES call and two large grant bids (SOO-SPLENDID/TICTOC). Active collaborations are underway with researchers from the University of Newcastle, University of Southampton, University of Gothenburg, Washington State University, L'OCEAN Paris, the University of Tasmania, and very many others. These collaborations have strengthened ORCHESTRA science by enabling and drawing benefit from non-NC funded science, and is in line with the ethos of LTSM science enabling the broader community. |
| Impact | See Publications, many of which are direct collaborations with non-ORCHESTRA institutes. |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | ORCHESTRA as an enabler of community science |
| Organisation | Princeton University |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Aside from extensive collaborations within the ORCHESTRA centres and the Met Office, active ORCHESTRA related collaborations are ongoing with three separate grant bids into the RoSES call and two large grant bids (SOO-SPLENDID/TICTOC). Active collaborations are underway with researchers from the University of Newcastle, University of Southampton, University of Gothenburg, Washington State University, L'OCEAN Paris, the University of Tasmania, and very many others. These collaborations have strengthened ORCHESTRA science by enabling and drawing benefit from non-NC funded science, and is in line with the ethos of LTSM science enabling the broader community. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Aside from extensive collaborations within the ORCHESTRA centres and the Met Office, active ORCHESTRA related collaborations are ongoing with three separate grant bids into the RoSES call and two large grant bids (SOO-SPLENDID/TICTOC). Active collaborations are underway with researchers from the University of Newcastle, University of Southampton, University of Gothenburg, Washington State University, L'OCEAN Paris, the University of Tasmania, and very many others. These collaborations have strengthened ORCHESTRA science by enabling and drawing benefit from non-NC funded science, and is in line with the ethos of LTSM science enabling the broader community. |
| Impact | See Publications, many of which are direct collaborations with non-ORCHESTRA institutes. |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | ORCHESTRA as an enabler of community science |
| Organisation | University of California, San Diego (UCSD) |
| Department | Scripps Institution of Oceanography |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Aside from extensive collaborations within the ORCHESTRA centres and the Met Office, active ORCHESTRA related collaborations are ongoing with three separate grant bids into the RoSES call and two large grant bids (SOO-SPLENDID/TICTOC). Active collaborations are underway with researchers from the University of Newcastle, University of Southampton, University of Gothenburg, Washington State University, L'OCEAN Paris, the University of Tasmania, and very many others. These collaborations have strengthened ORCHESTRA science by enabling and drawing benefit from non-NC funded science, and is in line with the ethos of LTSM science enabling the broader community. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Aside from extensive collaborations within the ORCHESTRA centres and the Met Office, active ORCHESTRA related collaborations are ongoing with three separate grant bids into the RoSES call and two large grant bids (SOO-SPLENDID/TICTOC). Active collaborations are underway with researchers from the University of Newcastle, University of Southampton, University of Gothenburg, Washington State University, L'OCEAN Paris, the University of Tasmania, and very many others. These collaborations have strengthened ORCHESTRA science by enabling and drawing benefit from non-NC funded science, and is in line with the ethos of LTSM science enabling the broader community. |
| Impact | See Publications, many of which are direct collaborations with non-ORCHESTRA institutes. |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | ORCHESTRA as an enabler of community science |
| Organisation | University of East Anglia |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Aside from extensive collaborations within the ORCHESTRA centres and the Met Office, active ORCHESTRA related collaborations are ongoing with three separate grant bids into the RoSES call and two large grant bids (SOO-SPLENDID/TICTOC). Active collaborations are underway with researchers from the University of Newcastle, University of Southampton, University of Gothenburg, Washington State University, L'OCEAN Paris, the University of Tasmania, and very many others. These collaborations have strengthened ORCHESTRA science by enabling and drawing benefit from non-NC funded science, and is in line with the ethos of LTSM science enabling the broader community. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Aside from extensive collaborations within the ORCHESTRA centres and the Met Office, active ORCHESTRA related collaborations are ongoing with three separate grant bids into the RoSES call and two large grant bids (SOO-SPLENDID/TICTOC). Active collaborations are underway with researchers from the University of Newcastle, University of Southampton, University of Gothenburg, Washington State University, L'OCEAN Paris, the University of Tasmania, and very many others. These collaborations have strengthened ORCHESTRA science by enabling and drawing benefit from non-NC funded science, and is in line with the ethos of LTSM science enabling the broader community. |
| Impact | See Publications, many of which are direct collaborations with non-ORCHESTRA institutes. |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | ORCHESTRA as an enabler of community science |
| Organisation | University of Gothenburg |
| Country | Sweden |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Aside from extensive collaborations within the ORCHESTRA centres and the Met Office, active ORCHESTRA related collaborations are ongoing with three separate grant bids into the RoSES call and two large grant bids (SOO-SPLENDID/TICTOC). Active collaborations are underway with researchers from the University of Newcastle, University of Southampton, University of Gothenburg, Washington State University, L'OCEAN Paris, the University of Tasmania, and very many others. These collaborations have strengthened ORCHESTRA science by enabling and drawing benefit from non-NC funded science, and is in line with the ethos of LTSM science enabling the broader community. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Aside from extensive collaborations within the ORCHESTRA centres and the Met Office, active ORCHESTRA related collaborations are ongoing with three separate grant bids into the RoSES call and two large grant bids (SOO-SPLENDID/TICTOC). Active collaborations are underway with researchers from the University of Newcastle, University of Southampton, University of Gothenburg, Washington State University, L'OCEAN Paris, the University of Tasmania, and very many others. These collaborations have strengthened ORCHESTRA science by enabling and drawing benefit from non-NC funded science, and is in line with the ethos of LTSM science enabling the broader community. |
| Impact | See Publications, many of which are direct collaborations with non-ORCHESTRA institutes. |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | ORCHESTRA as an enabler of community science |
| Organisation | University of Newcastle |
| Country | Australia |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Aside from extensive collaborations within the ORCHESTRA centres and the Met Office, active ORCHESTRA related collaborations are ongoing with three separate grant bids into the RoSES call and two large grant bids (SOO-SPLENDID/TICTOC). Active collaborations are underway with researchers from the University of Newcastle, University of Southampton, University of Gothenburg, Washington State University, L'OCEAN Paris, the University of Tasmania, and very many others. These collaborations have strengthened ORCHESTRA science by enabling and drawing benefit from non-NC funded science, and is in line with the ethos of LTSM science enabling the broader community. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Aside from extensive collaborations within the ORCHESTRA centres and the Met Office, active ORCHESTRA related collaborations are ongoing with three separate grant bids into the RoSES call and two large grant bids (SOO-SPLENDID/TICTOC). Active collaborations are underway with researchers from the University of Newcastle, University of Southampton, University of Gothenburg, Washington State University, L'OCEAN Paris, the University of Tasmania, and very many others. These collaborations have strengthened ORCHESTRA science by enabling and drawing benefit from non-NC funded science, and is in line with the ethos of LTSM science enabling the broader community. |
| Impact | See Publications, many of which are direct collaborations with non-ORCHESTRA institutes. |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | ORCHESTRA as an enabler of community science |
| Organisation | University of Southampton |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Aside from extensive collaborations within the ORCHESTRA centres and the Met Office, active ORCHESTRA related collaborations are ongoing with three separate grant bids into the RoSES call and two large grant bids (SOO-SPLENDID/TICTOC). Active collaborations are underway with researchers from the University of Newcastle, University of Southampton, University of Gothenburg, Washington State University, L'OCEAN Paris, the University of Tasmania, and very many others. These collaborations have strengthened ORCHESTRA science by enabling and drawing benefit from non-NC funded science, and is in line with the ethos of LTSM science enabling the broader community. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Aside from extensive collaborations within the ORCHESTRA centres and the Met Office, active ORCHESTRA related collaborations are ongoing with three separate grant bids into the RoSES call and two large grant bids (SOO-SPLENDID/TICTOC). Active collaborations are underway with researchers from the University of Newcastle, University of Southampton, University of Gothenburg, Washington State University, L'OCEAN Paris, the University of Tasmania, and very many others. These collaborations have strengthened ORCHESTRA science by enabling and drawing benefit from non-NC funded science, and is in line with the ethos of LTSM science enabling the broader community. |
| Impact | See Publications, many of which are direct collaborations with non-ORCHESTRA institutes. |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | ORCHESTRA as an enabler of community science |
| Organisation | University of Tasmania |
| Country | Australia |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Aside from extensive collaborations within the ORCHESTRA centres and the Met Office, active ORCHESTRA related collaborations are ongoing with three separate grant bids into the RoSES call and two large grant bids (SOO-SPLENDID/TICTOC). Active collaborations are underway with researchers from the University of Newcastle, University of Southampton, University of Gothenburg, Washington State University, L'OCEAN Paris, the University of Tasmania, and very many others. These collaborations have strengthened ORCHESTRA science by enabling and drawing benefit from non-NC funded science, and is in line with the ethos of LTSM science enabling the broader community. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Aside from extensive collaborations within the ORCHESTRA centres and the Met Office, active ORCHESTRA related collaborations are ongoing with three separate grant bids into the RoSES call and two large grant bids (SOO-SPLENDID/TICTOC). Active collaborations are underway with researchers from the University of Newcastle, University of Southampton, University of Gothenburg, Washington State University, L'OCEAN Paris, the University of Tasmania, and very many others. These collaborations have strengthened ORCHESTRA science by enabling and drawing benefit from non-NC funded science, and is in line with the ethos of LTSM science enabling the broader community. |
| Impact | See Publications, many of which are direct collaborations with non-ORCHESTRA institutes. |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | ORCHESTRA as an enabler of community science |
| Organisation | Washington State University |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Aside from extensive collaborations within the ORCHESTRA centres and the Met Office, active ORCHESTRA related collaborations are ongoing with three separate grant bids into the RoSES call and two large grant bids (SOO-SPLENDID/TICTOC). Active collaborations are underway with researchers from the University of Newcastle, University of Southampton, University of Gothenburg, Washington State University, L'OCEAN Paris, the University of Tasmania, and very many others. These collaborations have strengthened ORCHESTRA science by enabling and drawing benefit from non-NC funded science, and is in line with the ethos of LTSM science enabling the broader community. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Aside from extensive collaborations within the ORCHESTRA centres and the Met Office, active ORCHESTRA related collaborations are ongoing with three separate grant bids into the RoSES call and two large grant bids (SOO-SPLENDID/TICTOC). Active collaborations are underway with researchers from the University of Newcastle, University of Southampton, University of Gothenburg, Washington State University, L'OCEAN Paris, the University of Tasmania, and very many others. These collaborations have strengthened ORCHESTRA science by enabling and drawing benefit from non-NC funded science, and is in line with the ethos of LTSM science enabling the broader community. |
| Impact | See Publications, many of which are direct collaborations with non-ORCHESTRA institutes. |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | ORCHESTRA as an enabler of community science |
| Organisation | Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Aside from extensive collaborations within the ORCHESTRA centres and the Met Office, active ORCHESTRA related collaborations are ongoing with three separate grant bids into the RoSES call and two large grant bids (SOO-SPLENDID/TICTOC). Active collaborations are underway with researchers from the University of Newcastle, University of Southampton, University of Gothenburg, Washington State University, L'OCEAN Paris, the University of Tasmania, and very many others. These collaborations have strengthened ORCHESTRA science by enabling and drawing benefit from non-NC funded science, and is in line with the ethos of LTSM science enabling the broader community. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Aside from extensive collaborations within the ORCHESTRA centres and the Met Office, active ORCHESTRA related collaborations are ongoing with three separate grant bids into the RoSES call and two large grant bids (SOO-SPLENDID/TICTOC). Active collaborations are underway with researchers from the University of Newcastle, University of Southampton, University of Gothenburg, Washington State University, L'OCEAN Paris, the University of Tasmania, and very many others. These collaborations have strengthened ORCHESTRA science by enabling and drawing benefit from non-NC funded science, and is in line with the ethos of LTSM science enabling the broader community. |
| Impact | See Publications, many of which are direct collaborations with non-ORCHESTRA institutes. |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | SO-ICE |
| Organisation | University of Leeds |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Partnership on SO-ICE EU/ESA project. BAS ENCORE team is providing Weddell sea observations/expertise to contextualise EU/Leeds ice sheet mass observations in the Ronne-Filchner |
| Collaborator Contribution | ESA/Leeds partners provide cyrospheric data and expertise to contexualise changes in weddell sea water masses and sea ice. |
| Impact | Work is ongoing, but numerous technical meetings have been undertaken and several research papers scoped out. This work is multi disciplinary and covers oceanography, cryospheric research and satellite remote sensing. |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | A drop in the Southern Ocean |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | A movie of research in the Southern Ocean (http://vimeo.com/97260669) was constructed from footage from a DIMES cruise, shown in a number of schools across England and Wales, and accompanied by a short talk by two DIMES scientists. This was used to raise school kids' awareness of oceanography and science. Many schools reported on great interest in science careers from many of their pupils in the months following the movie / talk session. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| URL | http://vimeo.com/97260669 |
| Description | Academic Consultancy to BBC for series "Frozen Planet 2", Mike Meredith |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | This series is the successor to BBC's hugely successful Frozen Planet, which reached an audience of 500 million people globally. Prof Mike Meredith has been contracted by the BBC to serve as Academic Consultant for the production of its sequel. This work is underway; the series is due for broadcast in 2021, and will reach an audience similar to its predecessor. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Boland Cambridge Primary outreach |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Emma Boland took part in outreach at the University of Cambridge primary school in January on the topic of the Polar Regions with Reception-aged children. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Breakfast briefing for MPs on climate change |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Breakfast briefing held at Royal Society for MPs on climate change. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Cambridge Science Festival |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Cambridge Science Festival event "Sensing the climate: how do we measure our changing planet?" as part of the Cambridge Centre for Climate Science. This includes a presentation on how oceanographers take observational measurements. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | DynOPO connection with ORCHESTRA |
| 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 | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Strong media interest surrounded the DynOPO cruise, which is a separately-funded NERC project but one that connects strongly to ORCHESTRA and uses data that ORCHESTRA will be producing (moorings etc). Interviews were given by the ORCHESTRA PI (Mike Meredith) on BBC R4 Today programme, Sky TV News, various local radio outlets. ORCHESTRA participant Povl Abrahamsen was featured on the BBC website, plus numerous newspapers (Times, Guardian, Mail etc). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | IceWorlds at Greenwich |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | RRS Sir David Attenborough moored at Greenwich, with tours for policymakers and national/international media attention. Simultaneously, IceWorlds event held at Greenwich Maritime Museum, open to public. Many thousands viewed stalls, talks and exhibits relating to polar science and how it impacts the planet and people. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | ORCHESTRA online and media |
| 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 | An ORCHESTRA web domain for ORCHESTRA (www.orchestra.ac.uk) has been secured, and a wiki has been set up using that domain. Maintenance of facebook and twitter accounts has been ongoing to highlight ORCHESTRA progress and achievements. Direct engagement with the public via podcasts, TV and radio interviews and popular science book publications, as well as participation in science festivals. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |