Ny-Ålesund: How UK scientists are studying climate change in the Arctic | Daisy Dunne British Antarctic Survey 🐧

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'In the small intestine
of the little auk
we found Mexico City, Manila, Shanghai, New York.'

This week's 'Poet Laureate in the Arctic' explores the impact of pollution and changing temperatures on the bird bear and human inhabitants of Ny-Ålesund 🪶

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❄️ We're back in the #Arctic for the second in our BIOPOLE blog post series!

🐻‍❄️🖊️ This week, floating baskets, a polar bear and a Poet Laureate...

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Huge pleasure to host Simon Armitage ⁦Natural Environment Research Council⁩ ⁦NERC Arctic Research Station⁩ in Svalbard with ⁦British Antarctic Survey 🐧⁩. Looking forward to the ⁦BBC Radio 4⁩ series from next Tuesday! theguardian.com/books/2023/oct…

A successful season of glacier surface scraping, microbe staining, and the signature WAVES-team soundtrack of the high Arctic Taylor Swift Louis Theroux #helikopter117 Ian Stevens Eva Doting thanks NERC Arctic Research Station for putting up with us ;) and supporting our science

And that's a wrap on the first BIOPOLE land based field campaign! What an incredible month. Over 1500 samples collected including water, sediment, #GHG , and eDNA. Big thanks to everyone who has helped us make this a success!
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Was great to see a BIOPOLE science talk by Prof Bryan Spears from UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology and Prof Kate Hendry from British Antarctic Survey 🐧 while in Ny Alesund last week. The talk was open to all in the community and was very well attended. Thanks to Norsk Polarinstitutt // Norwegian Polar Institute for organising it!
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Out on the boats sampling seawater and marine sediments to track the input of nutrients from rivers in the Arctic for the @BIOPOLE project British Antarctic Survey 🐧 NERC Arctic Research Station

Three weeks into the #Svalbard trip, with a full team! Tom Harvey has joined Jaz Millar, Emily 🐝 and Maddy and they're heading back to each glacier site to see how the #glacier #algae blooms have developed

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A second #FieldworkFriday post because this place deserves it! Ny Alesund is such a stunning place to work. Two more weeks to go and lots more to do! Now back to the lab to filter all the water samples we've collected today.
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Fascinating to hear the Poet Laureate Simon Armitage's early thoughts from his visit to Svalbard. More to come later this year via BBC Radio 4.

His visit to the NERC Arctic Research Station has coincided with fieldwork by UKCEH scientists working on the BIOPOLE programme ❄️

Great to know and glad all going well. Best wishes for the rest of the work!

Surely Arctic weather 'by Royal Appointment' for the Poet Laureate today....😉!

It's been a good couple of days supporting the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology team who have been busy setting up an algae trap in Bayelva and doing some water sampling below Feiringbreen as part of the BIOPOLE project. #UKinArctic British Antarctic Survey 🐧 Natural Environment Research Council.

Another good day #BIOPOLE sampling by the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology team in Svalbard. Lots of great rivers to choose from. We're going to have a very busy month!

Getting packed up and ready to go as the first BIOPOLE land based field campaign kicks off tomorrow! The team are heading to Ny-Alesund for a month of water and sediment sampling, as well as implementing a novel approach to river discharge measurements using a drone.

#Svalbard fieldwork at NERC Arctic Research Station is well underway for Jaz Millar, Emily 🐝 and Maddy. Hopefully some interesting results to put towards the The Leverhulme Trust iDAPT project and Emily and Maddy's PhDs. And lovely weather as well!

The British Antarctic Survey 🐧 #REMUS project is a long-term soil warming experiment, which is located at Kongsfjordneset. The team have been busy adding water to 24 plots, sampling leaves & roots of S. polaris and B. vivipara, along with soil, and carrying out any necessary repairs to the OTCs.

The Natural Environment Research Council Arctic Research Station Access Scheme 2023/24 call is open! Don't miss out on this fantastic funding opportunity - deadline is 14th July! Details here: bit.ly/44psdVw
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