The annual NERC Arctic Station ‘open day’ took place on 23 January 2025, at the British Antarctic Survey in Cambridge and online.
Speakers included Dr Iain Rudkin, BAS Arctic Operations Manager, who gave an overview of the NERC Arctic Station, and project talks from Prof Arwyn Edwards, Aberystwyth University, Dr Kevin Newsham, BAS and Dr Cath Waller, Hull University and Dr Claudia Colesie and Dr Mariana Garcia Criado from Edinburgh University.
A recording of the event is available here.
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The agenda for the day was as follows:
1045 – 1055 Welcome and Introduction – Henry Burgess, Head, NERC Arctic Office
1055 – 1120 NERC Arctic Research Station Overview – Dr Iain Rudkin, Arctic Operations Manager, BAS
1120 – 1130 Station Laboratories – Guy Hillyard, Arctic Lab Manager, BAS
1130 – 1145 NERC: Update on funding opportunities – Dr Edoardo Fiordalisi, NERC Research Facilities
1145 – 1200 Svalbard Science Forum (SSF) overview – Marius Omland and Lena Cappelen Endresen (online)
1200 – 1300 LUNCH
1300 – 1420 Quick-fire science talks from project teams
1300 – 1320 CRYO365: Temporal dynamics of glacier ecosystems – Dr Arwyn Edwards, Aberystwyth University (online)
1320 – 1340 TundraTime – Dr Claudia Colesie and Dr Mariana Garcia Criado, Edinburgh University (online)
1340 – 1400 REMUS: Responses of Microbes in upper soil horizons to environmental manipulations – Dr Kevin Newsham, BAS
1400 – 1420 PLANS: Plastic in Arctic Nearshore Systems – Dr Cath Waller, Hull University
1420 – 1430 Wrap up and Close of Meeting
Any questions, please contact arcticresearchstation@bas.ac.uk.
Photo credits: Iain Rudkin and Pete Bucktrout, BAS