The annual NERC Arctic Station ‘open day’ will take place on 23 January 2025, from 1030 to 1430. This will be held in the Conference Theatre at the British Antarctic Survey in Cambridge and online.

If you are a current user of the NERC station in Ny-Ålesund, or if you are considering applying to use the station in the future or just interested in finding out more about the Station, then we strongly recommend attending this informative event and meeting the team. Registration is free!

Speakers include Dr Iain Rudkin, BAS Arctic Operations Manager, who will give 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.

Please register to attend via this link

The Station provides excellent facilities and accommodation for researchers from across all UK universities, research institutes and other recognised organisations, and their international collaborators, wanting to carry out a range of environmental research which includes ecological, glacial/periglacial geomorphology, hydrology and atmospheric chemistry and marine research.

Deadline to register to attend in person is 17th January. Refreshments and a light lunch will be provided to those who have registered to attend in person. Please note, space is limited and we will have to close in person registration once capacity has been reached.

Deadline to register to attend online  is open until 22nd January and the Zoom meeting link will be sent to you by the end of the day on 22nd January.

Station Day Agenda

VENUE: Conference Theatre, British Antarctic Survey and online

1030 – 1045     Coffee/Registration for those who have registered to attend in person

1045 – 1055    Welcome and Introduction – Henry Burgess, Head, NERC Arctic Office

1055 – 1120    NERC Arctic Research Station Overview – Iain Rudkin, Arctic Operations Manager, BAS

1120 – 1130    Station Laboratories – Guy Hillyard, Arctic Lab Manager, BAS

1130 – 1145     NERC: Update on funding opportunities – 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