Government Office for Technology Transfer’s Post

The clever folks in our AI team are developing IceNet - a deep learning sea ice forecasting system - as a tool for ships to plan safe, lower-carbon routes through frozen seas 🚢 We're really grateful to have the support of the Government Office for Technology Transfer as we explore how this research model could find a path to wider use. The Alan Turing Institute #AI #Arctic #Antarctica #shipping #navigation #artificialintelligence #forecasting #climate

Exciting news from the Arctic! ❄️ You’ve helped us toward a new scientific discovery. 🔍 Over 37,000 people joined the effort to detect walrus populations in Canada, Greenland and the Norwegian Arctic. By looking at satellite imagery, the public has been helping scientists by finding and counting where walrus haul-out, or rest, during the summer months. Thanks to the public and this project, we have: ✅ Found 2 unexpected walrus haul-out sites in Greenland ✅ Rediscovered a site last surveyed in 1985 ✅ Identified a completely new site Discoveries like this help scientists learn how climate change may affect walrus. The more we know, the better we can help to safeguard them in the future! British Antarctic Survey

New Research | In Floating debris and organisms can raft to Antarctic coasts from all major Southern Hemisphere landmasses, Dawson et al., examine how an increasing abundance of marine anthropogenic rafting vectors, poses a risk to Antarctic marine ecosystems. bit.ly/4ehW2w4

#DYK Campbell Scientific supports Antarctic research and preservation?    Our #CampbellSci data loggers are helping scientists monitor Antarctica's extreme environments. In the McMurdo Dry Valleys, our weather stations track key environmental factors to support ecological research in one of the coldest, driest places on Earth. You can read about it here: https://lnkd.in/gnM6vmmi Meanwhile, at Mawson's Hut, our systems assist in preserving this historic site from Australia's Heroic Era of Antarctic Exploration by monitoring temperature, humidity, and radiation in the harsh conditions of Cape Denison. Read about it at https://lnkd.in/gpr5WBNm    From ecological research to historical preservation, we're helping safeguard Antarctica's future!

Fin whales are making a giant comeback. 😍 Two years ago this thrilling footage was shared in the wake of expeditions to Antarctica, and a study reported that Fin whales of the Southern Hemisphere, which were almost brought to extinction by twentieth century industrial whaling, were found in high densities and returning to ancestral feeding grounds, indicating a recovering population. https://lnkd.in/gD27JJxd Now a new study indicates there may be over 50,000 fin whales in the Scotia Sea alone, an estimate which is more than three times higher than previously estimated for the entire Southern Ocean. https://lnkd.in/gmCiuiVj The recovery of a keystone species on this scale is a significant boost to the integrity and functioning of marine #ecosystems in the Southern Ocean. As the first study highlights, the return of these giants could restore #ecosystem functions crucial for atmospheric #carbon regulation in the world's most important ocean region for the uptake of anthropogenic CO2. #conservationsuccess #marineprotection #sdg14

Super excited to share the release of the new Ice Logistics Portal (https://lnkd.in/eDuTpQmX)! ❄️🌍 A platform providing global access to all published sea ice charts from the world’s leading ice and weather services: See an example here 👉 https://lnkd.in/eC6f27mA The portal provides direct access to official ice charts from 13 institutions, covering both the Arctic and Antarctic. These invaluable products—available as raster images or vector data in SIGRID-3 format—support operations, logistics, situational awareness, and scientific research. This platform was developed by our team at the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) in collaboration with the International Ice Charting Working Group (IICWG), with initial funding from the European Space Agency (ESA). Using Leaflet and Next.js, we designed the portal to address diverse requirements by offering a high-bandwidth web map interface for an interactive user experience and a low-bandwidth data catalogue view that delivers good performance in constrained environments through the use of Server side rendering. A special shout-out to the RSPB, whose bird search feature inspired some of our filter designs! This project has been an exciting challenge, and I'm thrilled to see it come to life. We hope it proves to be a valuable tool for the global sea ice community! #SeaIce #Logistics #GIS #DataVisualization #Arctic #Antarctic #NextJS #LeafletJS #RemoteSensing #EarthObservation

There is more to Antarctica than just ice-cold winter days ❄ It’s also one of the windiest places on Earth. These conditions put extreme pressure on the applications used to survive in this part of the world, as well as on the bolted connections that keep these applications together. In this harsh climate, fasteners must endure decades of temperatures as low as -60°C and winds of up to 88 kilometers per hour. Thanks to the reliability of Nord-Lock products, the lifetime of the Troll research station antenna systems has increased compared to earlier installations.

Underwater tsunamis focus of new study - British Antarctic Survey: An international research team, led by British Antarctic Survey (BAS), has been awarded £3.7M to advance a ground-breaking study on how underwater tsunamis are triggered by glacier calving around Antarctica. https://lnkd.in/emedejyE

Discover some of the preliminary observations from our Northwest Passage Ocean Science Expedition and how this links to the 6 Tipping Points that we journeyed through over the past few months. "We can today, scientifically, define [ the Arctic ] as Earth's ground zero. It's warming 2-3x faster than the planet as a whole. And we know today, and we learn more and more, that the Arctic is connected with Tipping Element Systems, with weather systems, with sea level rise, and [ is connected ] even all the way down to Antarctica through different cascade connections." - Johan Rockström. In this webinar, Keith Tuffley, Isak and Alex Rockström chat with Professor Johan Rockström on the Arctic Tipping Points, what the crew observed in their journey through this critical region, and what this means. 🎥 Watch the full webinar on YouTube! 🔗 https://lnkd.in/eZMXmpHz ➡️ Follow Ocean Science Expedition for more! #OceanScienceExpedition #AbelTasmanYacht #NorthwestPassage #TippingPoints #PlanetaryTippingPoints #PlanetaryBoundaries

Parts of Antarctica are turning green at an 'astounding' rate https://lnkd.in/guafqBYn Satellite images of the Antarctic Peninsula and nearby islands reveal that the area covered by vegetation grew dramatically between 1986 and 2021 and the rate of growth has accelerated since 2016