#Weather week: this Automated Weather Station (AWS) set up on Anchorage Island, #antarctica measures temperature + humidity of air + soil, PAR and wind speeds.
Gathers data for terrestrial experiments in the area.
Needs calibrating (猬囷笍fancy barometer) and check over once a year.
Celebrating #PolarPride . Diversity and different perspectives form the basis of science and research. Let's celebrate it among the community, not suppress it.
Twin Otter landing in the background for good measure.
#PolarPride2022 @BAS_News
This survey constitutes part of the long term marine monitoring. The team visit this dive site, Beautiful Bulge, once a month. Check out the spetacular explosion of colour and life! Photos from ROV surveys conducted by Marine Biologist @nadiafrontier & boating officer Louis Day
From ROV to diving
Monitoring the feeding activity in antarctic benthic suspension feeders using an ROV mounted GoPro during the polar winter. We are now back to using divers to conduct this survey. Clear upregulation of feeding activity in response to the summer bloom
#Ecology
Happy faces and cold hands 馃ザ. Sea water temps: -1.67 C 馃鉂勶笍
Restarting #polardiving 馃たat Rothera after a break during winter.
@OThreeLtd #diving #polarscience @BAS_News
Flying into Rothera research station. Can you spot the runway (bottom left)? Check out Sheldon #glacier on the right. It鈥檚 been increasingly receding over the last decades, tracked by @BAS_News scientists via satellite imagery.
#frozenplanet @BAS_News #Antarctica
Plankton trawling has given an insight into what is living in the water column around the Rothera research station. A recent study conducted by Alice Clement has identified a range of organisms from amphipods to larval stages of benthic organisms (1/2) #larvalecology #Antarctica
What it鈥檚 like to be dressed into SCUBA according to our new boating officer. @AndarkDiving @BAS_News #divingatwork #commercialdiving