🆕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...

🌊 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....

So 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

✅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...

What 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

CPOM'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

Previously, 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

Meet 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

Find out more at: aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

This 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

🆕Introducing Sally Thorpe, an ecosystem modeller and leader of the Pelagic Ecosystems group at the British Antarctic Survey🌊 Learn more about Sally here 📷https://biopole.ac.uk/2025/06/06/meet-the-team-14/ #team #project #science #research #modeller @bas.ac.uk

📰 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...

Fast 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!

Some 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 😋

📸 Amazing photo ❄️ Keep us posted @treacherousbuzz.bsky.social and @biopole.bsky.social!

It'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 👇

We 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!

Good morning from the Falklands! #biopole2 @bas.ac.uk @biopole.bsky.social

Surfing dolphins in the Falklands! #biopole2 @bas.ac.uk @biopole.bsky.social

Hello 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 world’s biggest iceberg, A23a, emerges from the fog! #biopole2 @bas.ac.uk @biopole.bsky.social

What happens when giant #icebergs start to fall apart! #biopole2 #antarctica #southgeorgia #ice #A23a @bas.ac.uk @biopole.bsky.social

Delving 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

Breaching #humpbacks and diving #southernrightwhales! Even on a misty day #biopole2 doesn’t disappoint! #whales #antarctica @bas.ac.uk @biopole.bsky.social

Minke mania today! Minke #whales came to check us out! #biopole2 @bas.ac.uk @biopole.bsky.social

The perfect day for Antarctic science. #biopole2 @bas.ac.uk @biopole.bsky.social

Humpback whale in the crystal clear Antarctic water! #biopole2 @bas.ac.uk @biopole.bsky.social

Chinstrap #penguins #biopole2 @bas.ac.uk @biopole.bsky.social

Chinstrap #penguin, swimming under water! #biopole2 @bas.ac.uk @biopole.bsky.social

This whale really wanted us to know it was there! #BIOPOLE2 @bas.ac.uk @biopole.bsky.social

A #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

#iceberg drifting by as the #storm builds! #biopole2 @bas.ac.uk @biopole.bsky.social

🐧 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

#iceberg vs #storm! #biopole2 @bas.ac.uk @biopole.bsky.social

Another berg faces the storm! #biopole2 @bas.ac.uk @biopole.bsky.social

Yesterday 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

How close were the humpback whales today? This close! #BIOPOLE2 @biopole.bsky.social @bas.ac.uk

“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