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BIOPOLE is an interdisciplinary NERC programme examining biogeochemical processes and ecosystem function in polar ecosystems 🔬🌍❄️🐟🐳🦭🌊🐻‍❄️🐧🚢🚁💧🌳📑 🔗 https://biopole.ac.uk/

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biopole.bsky.social @biopole.bsky.social · Nov 25

🌐 We’re officially on Bluesky 🌐

Welcome to @biopole.bsky.social account 👋

Kicking things off, we’re unveiling an exciting animation that dives into what BIOPOLE is all about 👀

Here is the Part 1 🍿

@bas.ac.uk @nocnews.bsky.social @ukceh.bsky.social @cpom-uk.bsky.social @britgeosurvey.bsky.social

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biopole.bsky.social @biopole.bsky.social · 3d

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...

biopole.bsky.social @biopole.bsky.social · 4d

🆕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

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Pablo Trucco-Pignata @pablotrucco.bsky.social · 16d

✅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

New biogeochemical sensors deployed in the Fram Strait – EPOC project

As part of the annual Fram Strait 2025 cruise conducted by the Norwegian Polar Institute (NPI), the science team from the UK's National Oceanography Centre deployed a new suite of autonomous Lab-on-Ch...

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biopole.bsky.social @biopole.bsky.social · Aug 28

🆕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...

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Pablo Trucco-Pignata @pablotrucco.bsky.social · Aug 5

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

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UK Centre for Polar Observation and Modelling @cpom-uk.bsky.social · Aug 8

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...

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biopole.bsky.social @biopole.bsky.social · Jul 18

🆕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

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British Antarctic Survey 🐧 @bas.ac.uk · Jul 4

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

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

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British Antarctic Survey 🐧 @bas.ac.uk · Jul 4

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

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

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British Antarctic Survey 🐧 @bas.ac.uk · Jul 4

Find out more at: aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

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...

aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Sarah Cryer @sarahcryer.bsky.social · Jun 24

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

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biopole.bsky.social @biopole.bsky.social · Jun 13

🆕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.bsky.social @biopole.bsky.social · Jun 13

📰 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/ ⬇️

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biopole.bsky.social @biopole.bsky.social · May 21

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...

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 ...

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Sammie Buzzard @treacherousbuzz.bsky.social · May 12

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!

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Sammie Buzzard @treacherousbuzz.bsky.social · May 16

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 😋

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UK Centre for Polar Observation and Modelling @cpom-uk.bsky.social · May 19

📸 Amazing photo ❄️

Keep us posted @treacherousbuzz.bsky.social and @biopole.bsky.social!

Sammie Buzzard @treacherousbuzz.bsky.social · May 19

The science team currently on the RRS Sir David Attenborough 🚢
We've been finding out more about what's going on in the polar ocean and atmosphere as the southern hemisphere heads into winter ❄️
📷 @drbradbrad.bsky.social

@cpom-uk.bsky.social @biopole.bsky.social

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UK Centre for Polar Observation and Modelling @cpom-uk.bsky.social · May 19

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 👇

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Sammie Buzzard @treacherousbuzz.bsky.social · May 20

We came looking for chlorophyll and our acoustician found this... At 180m tall I guess we found out where the monster hangs out when not in Loch Ness @biopole.bsky.social?
www.instagram.com/p/DJ4LOnONVg...

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biopole.bsky.social @biopole.bsky.social · Mar 31

A great video form Laura Taylor whose apart of BIOPOLE!

British Antarctic Survey 🐧 @bas.ac.uk · Mar 26

The ocean has absorbed 40% of the CO₂ we've emitted from fossil fuels since the start of the industrial era 🌊

But how will climate change affect the work of Earth's big blue MVP?

Laura Taylor explains how this fits into the @biopole.bsky.social investigation on RRS Sir David Attenborough ⬇️

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Huw Griffiths @huwiceandstuff.bsky.social · Mar 28

Good morning from the Falklands! #biopole2 @bas.ac.uk @biopole.bsky.social

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Huw Griffiths @huwiceandstuff.bsky.social · Mar 28

Surfing dolphins in the Falklands! #biopole2 @bas.ac.uk @biopole.bsky.social

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Huw Griffiths @huwiceandstuff.bsky.social · Mar 23

Hello A23a! The world’s biggest iceberg! Stretching as far as we can see! #biopole2
@biopole.bsky.social @bas.ac.uk

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biopole.bsky.social @biopole.bsky.social · Mar 22

Now the samples and data collected by the instruments on the mooring will be used to better understand fluxes of carbon throughout the water column in this region, and the role of biological processes in this. 🦐

#BIOPOLE2

biopole.bsky.social @biopole.bsky.social · Mar 22

The BIOPOLE mooring has quite the backstory:

🚢 First deployed in early 2023
🧊 Later in 2023 was in the predicted path of the A23a iceberg
🦸 Recovered during #BIOPOLE1 in late 2023 to protect it from A23a
⚓ Redeployed in early 2024

And now… #BIOPOLE2 has recovered the mooring for the last time!