Members from BIOPOLE including @krhendry.bsky.social, Geraint Tarling, Adrian Martin and Dan Mayor attended the UK Arctic Science Conference, in Northumbria University, September 2025.

Catch up on the full article here: biopole.ac.uk/2025/11/28/b...

🆕Introducing Ezra Kitson, an Environmental Data Scientist at @UK_CEH 🌏

Learn more about Ezra here: ⬇️ biopole.ac.uk/2025/11/25/m...

#team #project #science #research

Meet Professor of Marine and Atmospheric Chemistry, Alex Baker. Right now, he's on the RRS Sir David Attenborough (@biopole.bsky.social) taking air samples from the Southern Ocean around Antarctica, and here at UEA he teaches first year students about air pollution.

🆕Introducing Dave Munday, a physical oceanographer and numerical modeller at British Antarctic Survey🌊

Learn more about Dave here: ⬇️
biopole.ac.uk/2025/11/24/m...

#team #project #science #research

@bas.ac.uk

🆕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....

Nitrogen fixation under declining Arctic sea ice - Communications Earth & Environment Nitrogen fixation occurs under Arctic sea ice and is positively correlated with primary production, according to analyses of transects across the marginal ice zone and in the Central Arctic Ocean.

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

Red icebreaker ship the RSS Sir David Attenborough docked at a snowy Antarctic research station surrounded by floating icebergs and calm waters.

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

Two workers in orange safety gear operate large vertical Bongo nets on a boat at sunset over the ocean.

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

Seasonally migrating zooplankton strongly enhance Southern Ocean carbon sequestration High-latitude zooplankton can sequester millions of tons of carbon due to their seasonal migration from the surface ocean to depth, and their respiration and mortality during overwintering. This seas...

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/ ⬇️

Workshop on High Latitude Nitrogen Fixation, Bridging Observations to Models - Biopole Biological nitrogen fixation is considered the major input of reactive nitrogen in low latitude open ocean regions, fuelling primary productivity and carbon export. For decades, nitrogen fixation had ...

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 👇