NERC Station Day 2025

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 IntroductionHenry Burgess, Head, NERC Arctic Office

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

1120 – 1130    Station LaboratoriesGuy Hillyard, Arctic Lab Manager, BAS

1130 – 1145     NERC: Update on funding opportunitiesDr Edoardo Fiordalisi, NERC Research Facilities

1145 – 1200     Svalbard Science Forum (SSF) overviewMarius 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 ecosystemsDr 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