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- 🆕Introducing Dave Munday, a physical oceanographer and numerical modeller at British Antarctic Survey🌊 Learn more about Dave here: ⬇️ biopole.ac.uk/2025/11/24/m... #team #project #science #research @bas.ac.uk
- 🆕Introducing Zoe Wright, a PhD Student with UKCEH and Lancaster university🌊 Learn more about Zoe here: ⬇️ biopole.ac.uk/2025/11/24/m... #team #project #science #research @bas.ac.uk
- 📰 BIOPOLE Autumn 2025 Newsletter is out! 🪄Learn about EDI and ECR initiatives 💡Catch up on the latest events 👋Get to know our scientists 👥Read the Papers of the Season ...and more!🌎🐧🌊💧🌳 Read it on the website ⬇️ biopole.ac.uk/newsletters/
- 📣Catch up on BIOPOLE Annual Science Meeting 2025 which took place earlier this year! This was the third annual meeting which included project overviews and updates! 📰 Read the article here: ⬇️ biopole.ac.uk/2025/12/17/b...
- 📣Catch up on this article about EDI within BIOPOLE this Autumn! Including topics on Black History Month, World Mental Health Day, Movember, and Polar Pride Day as well as other important topics! 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ Read the full article here:⬇️ biopole.ac.uk/2025/11/28/a...
- Reposted by biopole🌊 The @biopole.bsky.social project (2022-2027) brings together #fieldwork & innovative #modelling to determine how polar #ecosystems regulate the balance of #carbon & nutrients in the world’s oceans; and their effect on global fish stocks & carbon storage. 📄Grant Proposal: doi.org/10.3897/rio....
- Reposted by biopoleSo cool to see this one out!! www.nature.com/articles/s43... @noc.ac.uk @biopole.bsky.social @ird-fr.bsky.social @mioceanologie.bsky.social
- Catch up on BIOPOLE @ Polar Beers with UK Polar Network!👏 🔎Jen Freer gave a great talk, read the article she wrote here: biopole.ac.uk/2025/10/24/b... #polar #research
- 🆕BIOPOLE Paper of the Season - Record-low Antarctic sea ice in 2023 increased ocean heat loss and storms featured in @Nature , Co-authored by Andrew Meijers, from WP3📰 Read the summary here:⬇️ biopole.ac.uk/2025/10/16/b...
- Aidan from BIOPOLE attended Arctic Frontiers and Gordon Polar Marine Science Conference! Aidan presented work on the “Contribution of Diapausing Copepods to the Southern Ocean Lipid Pump" Read the full article here: biopole.ac.uk/2025/10/07/b...
- 🆕Introducing Siobhán Foden, a Biogeochemistry Lab Technician at British Antarctic Survey🌊 Learn more about Siobhán here: ⬇️ biopole.ac.uk/2025/06/09/m... #team #project #science #research @bas.ac.uk
- Reposted by biopole✅Done! We deployed LoC sensors (pH, TA, NO₃, PO₄) on Fram Strait moorings in the East Greenland Current. Report: epoc-eu.org/fram-strait-... @noc.ac.uk @oceanseaicenpi.bsky.social @epocproject.bsky.social @biopole.bsky.social #FS2025 #OceanSensors #RVKronprinsHaakon #EPOC #NPI #BIOPOLE
- 🆕BIOPOLE Paper of the Season - 'Insights into silicon cycling from ice sheet to coastal ocean from isotope geochemistry' , Co-authored by Kate Hendry, a WP1 Co-leader📰 Read the article here⬇️ biopole.ac.uk/2025/08/28/b...
- Reposted by biopoleWhat a view!!! Members of the @oceanseaicenpi.bsky.social sea-ice team were out on the floes two days ago, taking samples and measuring properties and thickness of the ice. @noc.ac.uk @epocproject.bsky.social @biopole.bsky.social #FramStrait2025 #FS2025 #SeaIce #ArcticScience #RVKronprinsHaakon
- Reposted by biopoleCPOM's @treacherousbuzz.bsky.social @northumbriauni.bsky.social joined @biopole.bsky.social @bas.ac.uk to investigate what lies beneath the surface of the Southern Ocean, Antarctica 🌊 Watch the 📽️ - cpom.org.uk/what-lies-be...
- 🆕Introducing Simeon Hill, a marine and fisheries ecologist at the British Antarctic Survey 🌊 Learn more about Simeon here 📷https://biopole.ac.uk/2025/06/09/meet-the-team-15/ #team #project #science #research @bas.ac.uk
- Reposted by biopolePreviously, scientists thought the main export of carbon to the Southern Ocean depths was from waste produced by zooplankton. But due to the efforts of the PICCOLO and BIOPOLE projects, we now understand that the seasonal migration of zooplankton is key to ocean carbon storage. 📸: William Clark
- Reposted by biopoleMeet zooplankton: the tiny heroes of ocean carbon storage. 🦐 A new study produced in collaboration with BAS scientists unearths how zooplankton (tiny ocean animals) are responsible for storing more carbon than previously thought. 📸: Dan Mayor
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- Reposted by biopoleThis morning we have moved away from yesterdays unofficial theme of #coccolithophores to nutrients with talks by Robyn Tuerena @samsocean.bsky.social and the #C-streams project, Anna Belcher @ukceh.bsky.social and @biopole.bsky.social project and a keynote by @altagliabue.bsky.social on #iron
- 📰 BIOPOLE Spring 2025 Newsletter is out! 🪄Learn about EDI and ECR initiatives 💡Catch up on the latest events 👋Get to know our scientists 👥Read the Papers of the Season ...and more!🌎🐧🌊💧🌳 Read it on the website biopole.ac.uk/newsletters/ ⬇️
- Read Mar's article on the Workshop on high latitude nitrogen fixation, bridging observations to models which was held in parallel to ASLO 2025 Aquatic Sciences Meeting! 📣 Read it here: biopole.ac.uk/2025/05/21/w...
- Reposted by biopoleFast forward to today and I'm on the ship for the first time waiting to depart the Falklands for Rothera. Could not be more excited for this totally unexpected chance thanks to @biopole.bsky.social @cpom-uk.bsky.social 🐬 Fingers crossed the Drake Passage is kind to us!
- Reposted by biopoleSome of the @biopole.bsky.social team and our science buddies enjoyed a walk around Rothera this morning, it's definitely getting wintery here! Necessary exercise to burn off all the incredible food on the RRS Sir David Attenborough. Fish and chips Friday tonight 😋
- Reposted by biopole📸 Amazing photo ❄️ Keep us posted @treacherousbuzz.bsky.social and @biopole.bsky.social!
- The science team currently on the RRS Sir David Attenborough 🚢 We've been finding out more about what's going on in the polar ocean and atmosphere as the southern hemisphere heads into winter ❄️ 📷 @drbradbrad.bsky.social @cpom-uk.bsky.social @biopole.bsky.social
- Reposted by biopoleIt's always exciting to get an update from @treacherousbuzz.bsky.social, who is currently in Antarctica with @biopole.bsky.social investigating the biology and chemistry of sea water 👇
- Reposted by biopoleWe came looking for chlorophyll and our acoustician found this... At 180m tall I guess we found out where the monster hangs out when not in Loch Ness @biopole.bsky.social? www.instagram.com/p/DJ4LOnONVg...
- A great video form Laura Taylor whose apart of BIOPOLE!
- The ocean has absorbed 40% of the CO₂ we've emitted from fossil fuels since the start of the industrial era 🌊 But how will climate change affect the work of Earth's big blue MVP? Laura Taylor explains how this fits into the @biopole.bsky.social investigation on RRS Sir David Attenborough ⬇️
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- Reposted by biopoleHello A23a! The world’s biggest iceberg! Stretching as far as we can see! #biopole2 @biopole.bsky.social @bas.ac.uk
- 📢 Introducing the BIOPOLE mooring – a scientific mooring with an exciting history! The BIOPOLE mooring is a collection of scientific instruments collecting data and samples to better understand biological and oceanographic processes in the Powell Basin of the Weddell Sea 🌊
- The BIOPOLE mooring mainly consists of sediment traps which collect falling matter in the water column, like zooplankton (and their poo!) 🦐 In this video, BIOPOLE researcher Dr Emily Rowlands explains how sediment traps work and why we use them ⬆️
- Now the samples and data collected by the instruments on the mooring will be used to better understand fluxes of carbon throughout the water column in this region, and the role of biological processes in this. 🦐 #BIOPOLE2
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- Reposted by biopoleWhat happens when giant #icebergs start to fall apart! #biopole2 #antarctica #southgeorgia #ice #A23a @bas.ac.uk @biopole.bsky.social
- Reposted by biopoleDelving 300 metres below the surface... 🌊 ...is what a team of scientists from BAS as well as international institutions embarked on in the Southern Ocean last month. Intrigued... 1/5 📸George Gittens
- Reposted by biopoleBreaching #humpbacks and diving #southernrightwhales! Even on a misty day #biopole2 doesn’t disappoint! #whales #antarctica @bas.ac.uk @biopole.bsky.social
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- Reposted by biopoleA #seapig: a type of #seacucumber or #holothurian. This one comes from 600 m down near the South Orkney Islands off #Antarctica. #BIOPOLE2 @biopole.bsky.social @bas.ac.uk
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- Reposted by biopole🐧 What is fieldwork like in #Antarctica? From glacier meltwater sampling to algae growth experiments and a Christmas Day 5K, Alanna Grant tells us more about her recent trip south for the BIOPOLE project @biopole.bsky.social 🔗 www.ceh.ac.uk/news-and-med... #PolarScience @bas.ac.uk @ukri.org
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- Reposted by biopoleYesterday we caught some beautiful #seaspiders! These gorgeous pycnogonids come from 500 m deep near the South Orkney Islands in #Antarctica. #BIOPOLE2 @bas.ac.uk @biopole.bsky.social
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- Reposted by biopole“I spy with my little eye” - spy-hopping is when a whale raises its head out of the water. These humpbacks were taking a look at us and giving us a view of their barnacles. #BIOPOLE2 @bas.ac.uk @biopole.bsky.social
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- Reposted by biopoleExciting new paper using lab-on-chip technology in Greenlandic fjords, producing high-resolution data needed to understand the controls on nutrient cycling and, so, sensitivity to climate change @bas.ac.uk @noc.ac.uk @mattmowlem.bsky.social agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
- Reposted by biopoleStunning view of a #humpback #whale in the sunshine! #BIOPOLE2 has been blessed with #wildlife encounters! @biopole.bsky.social @bas.ac.uk
- How do you monitor ocean processes and ecosystems over a long time period? 📢 Introducing the Western Core Box (or WCB for short!) WCB is a @bas.ac.uk program of observations about ocean processes and marine ecosystems near to South Georgia.
- WCB in a nutshell: ⚓️ Collecting and redeploying scientific moorings 🔊 Acoustic surveys for animals in the water beneath the ship 🦐 Using nets to collect samples of zooplankton, including Antarctic krill 🐋 Surveying for predators in the marine ecosystem 💧 Collecting data on water properties
- These observations have been repeated annually for almost 30 years and the team on board the #BIOPOLE2 research mission on the RRS Sir David Attenborough have just completed the most recent ones. 📷 Scientists collect zooplankton samples from a net
- Monitoring changes to krill populations helps us to understand how they may fare with threats like climate change and fishing pressures, and the knock-on effects for other parts of the ecosystem. 🐧 Western Core Box forms part of @bas.ac.uk Polar Ocean Ecosystem Time Series. #SDAscience #BIOPOLE2
- The early days of the BIOPOLE II science cruise on the #RRSSirDavidAttenborough included trialling instruments in preparation for three phases of science: 🦐 Western Core Box 💧 A23 hydrographic transect 🧊 BIOPOLE Here’s a summary of what we’ve been up to so far ⬇️ www.instagram.com/reel/DGif314...
- 🎧 Did you catch some of our wonderful early-career scientists on @bas.ac.uk ICEWORLD podcast earlier this month? They are currently hard at work on the RRS Sir David Attenborough on BIOPOLE's second major Southern Ocean research mission 👩🔬🦐 Catch up on the episode wherever you get your podcasts!
- Reposted by biopoleAfter dark on the #RRSSirDavidAttenborough. Search lights in the fog! #biopole2 @biopole.bsky.social @bas.ac.uk
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- Reposted by biopoleBeasties from the deep. #invertebrates from 700 m deep around South Georgia in the Southern Ocean. #BIOPOLE2 @biopole.bsky.social @bas.ac.uk
- Reposted by biopoleGoodbye #SouthGeorgia, you have been amazing. Stunning scenery, sunsets, whales and interesting weather! Now we head southwards into the open ocean…. #BIOPOLE2 @biopole.bsky.social @bas.ac.uk
- Reposted by biopoleA spectacular and emotional experience leaving #SouthGeorgia and passing through a group of around 500 #humpback #whales. They were everywhere! #biopole2 #marninebiology #cetaceans #Antarctic @biopole.bsky.social @bas.ac.uk
- Reposted by biopoleHourglass #dolphins escort the #RRSSirDavidAttenborough out of #SouthGeorgia waters. #biopole2 #nature #marinebiology @bas.ac.uk @biopole.bsky.social
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- Reposted by biopoleFinished my #SouthGeorgia #whale drawing. Using ink dots to draw the species of whale we saw last week: Blue, Humpback and Southern Right whale! #BIOPOLE2 @biopole.bsky.social @bas.ac.uk
- Reposted by biopoleSo, going to sea for two months is a recipe for next-level travel packing panic 😰🧳 Here's a clip of Dr Em Rowlands chatting about the @biopole.bsky.social science cruise on this week's ICEWORLD. The team have just set sail on the RRS Sir David Attenborough. #BIOPOLE2
- Reposted by biopoleThis #WomenInScience Day, we are so proud to see so many female scientists currently working on RRS Sir David Attenborough! The @biopole.bsky.social team are investigating how nutrients drive the global carbon cycle and ocean ecosystems, and the impact of climate change. 📸 Maddy De Marchis
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