📰 BIOPOLE Summer 2026 Newsletter is out! 🪄Learn about our 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/

Geraint Tarling from BIOPOLE, recently become a delegate for the UK on the International Arctic Science Council (IASC) Marine Working Group (MWG) 🚢 @iasc-arctic.bsky.social Catch up on the recent article here: biopole.ac.uk/2026/07/23/r...

📣Catch up on the BIOPOLE ECR Grant writing workshop article! On 7-8 May 2026, the BIOPOLE project hosted a Grant Writing Workshop for Early Career Researchers (ECRs). The workshop was delivered by @scriptorialtd.bsky.social Read the article here: biopole.ac.uk/2026/07/22/g...

🆕Catch up on BIOPOLE at the Ocean Sciences Meeting and Bio-Carbon Workshop in Glasgow! The conference lasted five days, each with 20+ parallel sessions, keynotes, dozens of exhibits and hundreds of posters! Read the full article here: biopole.ac.uk/2026/07/17/b...

🆕Introducing Emma Boland an Ocean Modeller in BIOPOLE, based at British Antarctic Survey📷 Learn more about Emma here: ⬇️ biopole.ac.uk/2026/07/17/m... @bas.ac.uk

🆕Introducing Rhiannon Jones, a postdoc working on the Si-CLING project at British Antarctic Survey🌊 Learn more about Rhiannon here: ⬇️ biopole.ac.uk/2026/07/13/m... #team #project #science #research @bas.ac.uk

Catch up on the Southern Ocean BIOPOLE III Winter Cruises SD049 & SD050! 🌊 The cruise included zooplankton sampling, underway water sampling, sediment sampling and other incredible work on the ship! 🚢 read the article here: biopole.ac.uk/2025/12/11/s...

📄BIOPOLE published an Overview Article in Research Ideas and Outcomes! We submitted an article providing a high-level overview of the objectives of BIOPOLE! Read the summary here:⬇️ biopole.ac.uk/2025/12/04/b...

🆕BIOPOLE Paper of the Season - Nitrogen Fixation Under Declining Arctic Sea Ice co-authored by Mar Benavides (NOC) Atmospheric nitrogen transformation into bioavailable nutrients is actively taking place under sea ice in the central Arctic! Read the summary here:⬇️ biopole.ac.uk/2025/12/03/p...

📄Kate Hendry from BIOPOLE worked with ScienceVega to produce an online article aimed at secondary school students on “Dynamic ice–ocean pathways along the Transpolar Drift amplify the dispersal of Siberian matter" 🧊 Read the full summary here: biopole.ac.uk/2025/12/03/s...

Anna Belcher presented at the Advances in Marine Biogeochemistry (AMBIO) Conference June 2025! The talk was on the BIOPOLE broadcast station campaign ‘Fresh to marine gradients and cycling of major nutrients'! Read the full summary here: biopole.ac.uk/2025/12/03/a...

Kathryn Cook from University of Exeter gave a talk to the Mid Devon Green Party, titled ‘From Poles to Planet: How Plankton Shape the Global Climate’🇦🇶 Read the full article here: ⬇️ biopole.ac.uk/2025/12/03/s...

🌍 How do changing polar ecosystems shape the global carbon cycle? SOOS is pleased to endorse @biopole.bsky.social. BIOPOLE investigates how polar biogeochemical processes influence carbon and nutrient cycling from the Southern Ocean to the Arctic 🌊🧪 Find out more: biopole.ac.uk

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BIOPOLE is an interdisciplinary NERC programme examining biogeochemical processes and ecosystem function in polar ecosystems. BIOPOLE will address a fundamental aspect of the Earth System – how…

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In June 2025 Gabi Stowasser went to Buckingham Palace to receive a Polar Medal🏅 In BIOPOLE, Gabi was on all 3 Southern Ocean cruises, where she focussed on net-catch samples and CTDs! 🧊 Read the article here:https://biopole.ac.uk/2025/12/03/polar-medal-for-biopole-scientist-dr-gabi-stowasser/

Read about the AISIT Project which started October 2025! AISIT will bring together data on stable oxygen isotopes (e.g. δ18O), other freshwater tracers like barium, and key nutrient data. AISIT will make Arctic freshwater data easier to access! Read the article here: biopole.ac.uk/2025/12/02/p...

We're working with partners on different projects in Greenland including @biopole.bsky.social to understand how polar ecosystems are changing. 📹 See some footage: youtu.be/ek-HyxvR3Oc 2/2

First widespread evidence of methane release from Greenland Ice Sheet

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BIOPOLE Members Launched New Initiatives to Strengthen UK-Antarctic Biological Research. The 2 new initiatives: the UK Antarctica Insync Biological Working Group and the BIOPOLE Task Force for a Royal Society Discussion Meeting. Read the article here: biopole.ac.uk/2025/12/02/b...

🌊Icebergs shape Southern Ocean productivity by triggering blooms through micronutrient delivery and sustaining biomass via deep nutrient resupply. 🧪 @bas.ac.uk @biopole.bsky.social 👉Read more here: www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Giant iceberg behaviour impacts regional biogeochemical cycling in the Southern Ocean - Communications Earth & Environment

Icebergs shape Southern Ocean productivity by triggering blooms through micronutrient delivery and sustaining biomass via deep nutrient resupply, as revealed by silicon isotope, hydrographic, meltwate...

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Catch up on the article 'BIOPOLE Hosts the 2025 LTSM2 Meeting' On 23rd October, lead scientists from the LTSM2 National Capability (NC) programmes and NERC Directors met to discuss progress and the wider impacts. Read the full article here: biopole.ac.uk/2025/11/28/b...

Catch up on this great article about Climate Extremes in Antarctica! BIOPOLE was represented at The Royal Soceity meeting on Global impacts of climate extremes in the polar regions: is Antarctica reaching a tipping point? Read the article here: biopole.ac.uk/2025/11/28/c...

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....

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

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.

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