Looks like the Halley Bay emperors are back at the McDonald Ice Rumples site. This colony has been particularly unlucky with the ice, lets see how they do this year. (image; enhanced Sentinel-2 20th Sept 2025)

Well be at London Zoo next week launching the Penguin Book of Penguins www.londonzoo.org/plan-your-vi...

The Coulman Island penguin colony 🐧🐧🐧 Image taken by Sentinel-2 on Sep. 13, 2025.

Russian scientists at the Mirny research station recently saved a baby emperor penguin after it became separated from its colony and risked freezing to death. In footage shared by the Russian Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute on Tuesday... 🔗 uk.news.yahoo.com/stranded-pen... #emperorpenguin

📙🐧✨ Image from Penguin Books' newsletter for the release date of “The Penguin Book of Penguins” (September 18, 2025) @ptfretwell.bsky.social @lisaefretwell.bsky.social #PenguinBooksUK

Our book, 'The Penguin book of penguins' will be in all good bookshops as of tomorrow! We have signed some copies for Toppings and Co in Ely, Cambridge. We are having a book launch at London zoo on Sept 28. Come and find us in the Garden room, anytime between 12 noon and 3.30pm. No need to book!

The dark patch marks the emperor penguin colony at Atka Bay. Nearby linear snow ridges are natural sastrugi, sculpted by polar winds—an image that contrasts living colonies with the harsh physical patterns of Antarctic ice.

And here's a love;y image from yesterday of Neumayer Station and the nearby emperor penguin colony at Atka Bay. Most of the recent emperor penguin documentaries have all been made from this site.

The emperor penguin colony at Cape Darlington, that we discovered in 2019, has moved 40 km south due to an ice shelf break off. Its current location is just south of Butler Island and it looks much better for the change of location.

Wow I've been off Bluesky for so long I forgot about the emojis If you're interested in a PhD about tracking Antarctic wildlife, consider joining my group... And, spread the word! 🧪🌍🦑🦉🦊

We're very happy to share that three of our maps received awards at the @bcsmaps.bsky.social Annual Conference last week! Our Alexander Island and Bedmap3 maps were recognised in the Printed Mapping category, and our Ice Logistics Portal (www.icelogistics.info) in the Electronic Mapping category 🏆🎉

#A23a iceberg continues its disintegration north of South Georgia in the South Atlantic, with a brilliant image from today finishing off this timelapse of Copernicus Sentinel-3 imagery over the last few weeks! It's always interesting to track these bergs out of Antarctica and into warmer waters 🌊🌴

Congratulations to our award winners and commended runners ups. More details will follow on our socials over the next week. Thank you again to our judges and sponsors, many of whom presented the awards today. #carto2025 #awards

Celebrating Nature Communications, 5th year aniversary, they have highlight some of the most significant papers and sceince highlights: www.nature.com/articles/s43...

A couple of our team are attending the @bcsmaps.bsky.social 2025 annual conference taking place at @bgs.ac.uk today and yesterday. It has been a fascinating few days so far and it’s great to see our maps displayed for the awards ceremony later today! #carto2025

I never realised the Bedmap had made it onto an album cover!

Antarctica is changing at s disturbing rate. “What happens in Antarctica won’t stay there. The stakes could not be higher. The choices made now will determine whether we face a future of worsening impacts and irreversible change or one of managed resilience to the changes already locked in.”

Last chance to apply to be in our world leading Wildlife From Space team. bas.ciphr-irecruit.com/applicants/v...

Each year as the sun starts to reappear over Antarctica I start the process of going through Sentinel2 imagery to find the locations of the 66 known emperor penguin colonies. Here is this year's first image, of Snow Hill, the most northerly colony. Can you spot the penguins?

Come and join BAS, working with both MAGIC and the Wildlife from Space Team! We are looking for an expert in ecological remote sensing with experience of spectral analysis to support our Darwin Plus South Georgia Seabird project. 🐦🦤 bas.ciphr-irecruit.com/applicants/v...

You can find more info about the project at : www.bas.ac.uk/project/sout...

We are hiring: bas.ciphr-irecruit.com/applicants/v...

Iceberg A23a is on the move again. Still over 50 km long as it rounds South Georgia.

Bedmap3 map PDFs are now available to freely download from BAS data.bas.ac.uk/items/757872...

We have been working along with engineers from Phase One and Rocky Mountain Aircraft over the past week to install and test our new Phase One PAS aerial camera into BAS's Twin Otter aircraft. 🛩️ 1/3

Antarctica’s Emperor Penguins and Seals Are at the “Pointy End” of Climate Change | Sierra Club July 9, 2025 www.sierraclub.org/sierra/antar... @ptfretwell.bsky.social @bas.ac.uk @sierraclub.org #EmperorPenguin #Antarctica #ClimateChange

Emperor penguins show dramatic decline in one region of Antarctica, satellite photos show @apnews.com June 10, 2025 apnews.com/article/empe... @ptfretwell.bsky.social @bas.ac.uk #EmperorPenguin #seaice #Antarctica #climatechange #エンペラーペンギン #コウテイペンギン #南極 #気候変動 #海氷

We're hiring a GIS and Mapping Specialist to manage our Geospatial Helpdesk and to contribute to our Topographic Map Series. This is a really exciting opportunity at the British Antarctic Survey to support colleagues across the organisation. Details here: shorturl.at/bA4fd #GISjobs

We’re developing a prototype web portal to explore British Antarctic Survey’s aerial photography archive 📸 ✈ Search by place or flight line, view results on the map, and access decades of contextual survey data. A step toward making this unique Antarctic record more discoverable & easier to explore!

Just like polar bears in the Arctic, emperor penguins are the iconic species threatened by climate change in Antarctica 🐧 Read more on @danambergstrom.bsky.social article in @theconversation.com

We've just received the proofs of our new Alexander Island map from Dennis Maps printers and have given the go ahead for printing! This is the first comprehensive map of the entire region produced in decades. At 1:500 000 scale, it also features a geological map on the reverse 😍 Watch this space!

On #Father'sDay, #NationalGeographic posted Emperor Penguin Dad from Secrets of the Penguins 🩵🐧 Lovely 😍 IG 🔗 www.instagram.com/p/DK7kVbINuR... #SecretsOfThePenguins #NatGeo #EmperorPenguin

Nice piece on our recent emper penguin story: www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco...

🐧📢 New paper alert 📢 🐧 This work was led and supported by the MAGIC team, using fifteen years of remote sensing data to analyse almost 250 satellite images. Read more in BAS's full thread below.

1️⃣ "We're probably going to lose a lot of emperor penguins along the way but if people do change, and if we do reduce or turn around our climate emissions, then we will save the emperor penguin." — @ptfretwell.bsky.social @bas.ac.uk 🌊 www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06...

Breaking news: it appears Emperor penguin populations in Antarctica are declining faster than predicted. Latest satellite data shows a massive 22% drop in penguin numbers over the last 15 years in key regions. This is more than double the rate of loss that experts had expected... 🧵 1/8

Emperor penguins show dramatic decline in one region of Antarctica, satellite photos show - ABC News June 10, 2025 abcnews.go.com/Technology/w... 2025/06/10 @ptfretwell.bsky.social @bas.ac.uk @mars-lab-whoi.bsky.social @whoi.edu

Great to see our new paper out - although the message for emperor penguins is bleak www.bas.ac.uk/media-post/e...

The best part? This idea could work for other kinds of conservation. They are already exploring how this could help with Arctic species like polar bears and walrus - even predicting when bears might approach human settlements to reduce dangerous encounters. 🧵 6/7

Machine learning 🤝 Conservation AI sea ice forecasting could help predict and protect caribou migration routes in the fast-changing Canadian Arctic. You read that right: it's AI for good! BAS researcher Dr Ellen Bowler has been making something with partners at the Government of Nunavut... 🧵 1/7

We're proud to share that our Bedmap3 map won "Best Map" at the International Map Industry Association (IMIA) forum in London last week! 🏆 This international award celebrates Outstanding Cartographic Design & we’re honoured to be recognised alongside leading names in the field from previous years. 🗺️

This one hurts. I wouldn’t have a PhD, or have had some of the best experiences in my life, or made some of my best friends #WithoutNSF & without the PGC. I was employee #1 of an organization that grew into an indispensable part of Polar Programs. And it’s being dismantled for literally no reason 🧪🌎

Eek, the five emperor penguins colonies in the Bellingshausen Sea could be in trouble again.

M 7.4 earthquake in the Drake Passage 219 km S of Ushuaia, Argentina. earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...

If you are at #EGU25 this week, there are a lot of people from BAS to say hello to. 👋 Come and check out our poster, presenting an update to Antarctic rock outcrop, at X5. The data has been extracted from Copernicus Sentinel-2 imagery & provides a much needed update in terms of accuracy & currency!

The Penguin Book of penguins - An Expert's Guide to the World's Most Beloved Bird by Peter Fretwell and Lisa Fretwell www.penguin.co.uk/books/464310... @ptfretwell.bsky.social @bas.ac.uk #PenguinBooks #VikingBooksUK

To #WorldPenguinDay 🐧 From what I’ve found, there are only two places in Japan and just five in the world where emperor penguins live under human care. While their wild habitat in Antarctica is, of course, incredibly important, ➘

Happy World Penguin Day! Let’s do the Penguin Bop to celebrate 🐧