Research Activities– 2006 to 2019

2018

Natalia VENTURINI (Universdad de la República, Uruguay)

Diagenetic alterations of suspended particulate organic matter in Antarctic glacier runoff and coastal waters evidenced by amino acids. Bursary report here and publication here.

Awarded £3440

Jeremy BIRD (University of Queensland, Australia)

Improving techniques for monitoring burrowing petrels. Bursary report here and publication here.

Awarded £3725

Marina do Valle de Chagas AZANEU (University of East Anglia, UK)

On the pathway and modification of the northwestern Weddell Sea shelf water on its way to the Bransfield Strait.

Azaneu_Report-Antarctic_bursary

Awarded £6000

Ross WHITMORE (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand)

Exposure and erosion rate records along the Victoria Land Coast from Mackay Glacier to Cape Hallett. Bursary report here.

Awarded £5164

Scott HOTALING (Washington State University, USA)

Comparing Antarctic and Arctic eelpout genomes to assess possible convergent evolution of a novel, ice-binding protein. See report here.

Hotaling et al. (2021). The biogeographic history of eelpouts and related fishes: linking phylogeny, environmental change, and patterns of dispersal in a globally distributed fish group. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 107211

Awarded £6000

Joseph STEWART (Bristol University, UK)

Southern Ocean coral pH-sensitivity and deep-water carbon release via Burdwood Bank. See report and publication here.

Awarded £3919

Aidan STARR (Cardiff University, UK)

Pliocene-Pleistocene Antarctic iceberg dynamics: a geochronology provenance study of Sub-Antarctic ice rafted debris. Report here.

Starr et al. 2021. Antarctic icebergs reorganize ocean circulation during Pleistocene glacials. Nature 589: 236-241.

Awarded £4750

Patricia VALDESPINO (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA)

Genomic markers and structural biology of Antarctic microbes. Publication here.

Awarded £4800

Victoria WARWICK-EVANS (British Antarctic Survey, UK)

Macaroni penguin foraging limits on the north coast of South Georgia.

Awarded £4400

Katherine SHORT (British Antarctic Survey, UK)

A new comprehensive biogeographical history of two species groups of Tardigrades in Antarctica. See report here.

An ancient, Antarctic-specific species complex: large divergences between multiple Antarctic lineages of the tardigrade genus Mesobiotus

Awarded £5032

Stanley KO (Rutgers University, USA)

Field calibration of nutrient and temperature proxies in deep-sea coral from New Zealand: towards reconstructing the Southern Ocean biological pump

Awarded £4100

Shaun BROOKS (University of Tasmania, Australia)

Establishing a connection between visual, biological, and physical disturbance impacts within terrestrial Antarctica. Publication: Insights on the environmental impacts associated with visible disturbance of ice-free ground in Antarctica.

Awarded £985

Kate WINTER (Northumbria University, UK)

Quantifying sediment flux through central East Antarctica. Report here.

Subglacial lakes and their changing role in a warming climate

Awarded £2680

2017

Jamey STUTZ (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand)

Using insights from David Glacier, Antarctica to model the non-linear, threshold-driven response of Antarctic outlet glaciers to climate forcing

Stutz_AB_Report

Mid-Holocene thinning of David Glacier, Antarctica: chronology and controls

Awarded £2350

Angela SREMBA (Oregon State University, USA)

Stable isotope analysis of blue whale bones collected from South Georgia and the South Shetland Islands to understand pre-exploitation feeding ecology

Awarded £2290

Swan SOW (University of Tasmania, Australia)

High resolution study of the abyssal (Antarctic bottom water) microbial assemblages within the Pacific and Indian sectors of the Southern Ocean

Biogeography of Southern Ocean prokaryotes: a comparison of the Indian and Pacific sectors

Awarded £5886.80

Ashley SHAW (Colorado State University, USA)

Joint project with Jasmine Lee to produce models of soil biodiversity distribution and conservation priorities for the McMurdo Dry Valley region of Antarctica.

Their joint report can be found here

Awarded £1915

Jasmine LEE (University of Queensland and Australian Antarctic Division, Australia)

Joint project with Ashley Shaw to produce models of soil biodiversity distribution and conservation priorities for the McMurdo Dry Valley region of Antarctica.

Their joint report can be found here

Awarded £1937

Thomas ROLAND (University of Exeter, UK)

Providing a circum-Antarctic perspective on the terrestrial biological response to recent climate warming, using material collected from the Antarctic Circumnavigation Expedition cruise. Publication here.

Awarded £5980

Luis RODRĺGUEZ PERTIERRA (National Museum of Natural Sciences, Madrid, Spain)

Identification of phylogenetic paths for the invasiveness of non-native Poaceae plant species in Antarctica. A publication arising from samples collected during Luis’s bursary funded fieldtrip can be found here.

Awarded £4100

Ewa PONIEKA (University of Cardiff, UK)

Investigating microbial community structure changes during temporal development of cryoconite holes on Antarctic glaciers. Report here.

Awarded £4590

Estela MLEWSKI (Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina)

Diversity and microbe-mineral interaction in microbial mats from the Antarctic Peninsula. A report of this work can be found here.

Prokaryotic diversity and biogeochemical characteristics of benthic microbial ecosystems from James Ross Archipelago (West Antarctica)

Awarded £4139

Freya MITCHISON (University of Cardiff, UK)

Using stable oxygen isotope records of diatoms as a proxy for freshwater release to extend the Antarctic freshwater discharge record back into the Neogene.

Awarded £5988

Elaine MAWBEY (University of Bristol, UK)

Investigating trace metal proxies in benthic foraminifera using core top calibrations and down-core records from the Amundsen Sea

Mawbey et al. 2020. Mg/Ca-Temperature Calibration of Polar Benthic foraminifera species for reconstruction of bottom water temperatures on the Antarctic shelf. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 283: 54-66.

Awarded £5000

Sabrina HEISER (University of Alabama, USA)

The ecology of secondary metabolite production in Plocamium cartilagineum and its population genetic structuring along the Western Antarctic Peninsula

Heiser Progress Report 2019

Publications:

Microsatellite locus development in the seaweed Plocamium sp.

Tetrasporophytic bias coupled with heterozygote deficiency in Antarctic Plocamium sp. (Florideophyceae, Rhodophyta)

Awarded £3730

Louise BIDDLE (University of Gothenburg, Sweden)

Using Seaglider data to observe submesoscale and mixed layer processes in the Southern Ocean Drake Passage. Report here.

Awarded £5445

2016

Andrew FOOTE (Natural History Museum of Denmark, Denmark)

Investigating adaptation to the thermal challenges of the Antarctic in killer whale ecotypes.

Awarded £4860

Oliver HOGG (University of Southampton and British Antarctic Survey, UK)

A high resolution study on the benthic assemblages of South Georgia’s shelf troughs by remotely operated vehicle: in situ assessment of predictive habitat mapping. Hogg_ASB_Final_Report

Awarded £3300

Marie VERHEYE (Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Belgium)

Development of microsatellite markers to study the genetic diversity and connectivity of Eusirus species (Amphipoda, Crustacea) on the continental shelf. See report here.

Awarded £4442

Sara LABROUSSE (National Museum of Natural History, Paris, France)

Antarctic predators to unravel the under-ice mysteries in the Weddell Sea. See publication here.

Awarded £4650

Jilda CACCAVO (University of Padua, Italy)

Using otolith chemistry to test population structure and life history connectivity of Pleuragramma antarctica in the Southeast Weddell Sea.

Final Report_Caccavo

Published in Marine Ecology Progress Series in 2019.

Awarded £4305

Madeleine BRASIER (University of Liverpool, UK)

Understanding symbiotic relationships within Vulnerable Marine Ecosystems using compound specific stable isotope analysis: Octocorals and Polynoids.

Mbrasier AS report Classifying symbiotic relationships in VMEs

Awarded £4147

Roksana MAJEWSKA (University of Naples, Italy)

Biodiversity of moss-associated diatoms from the Antarctic Peninsula region.

Awarded £4905

2015

Alex BURTON-JOHNSON (British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, UK)

Timescales for continental crust generation: magmatic evolution of the Lassiter Coast Intrusive Suite, Antarctica, determined by Ion Microprobe Analysis of zircon.

Johnson Antarctic Bursary 2015 Report.

Does tectonic deformation control episodic continental arc magmatism? Evidence from granitic magnetic fabrics (AMS)

Awarded £4700

Ottavia CAVALLI (University of Aberystwyth, UK)

Are contemporary cryoconite holes Antarctic analogues of Snowball Earth ecosystems?

Awarded £4968

Reinhard DREWS (Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium)

The stability of Antarctic ice shelves: the determination of the basal mass balance from space using COSMO Skymed synthetic aperture radar interferometry.

Drews and Berger Antarctic Science Bursary report

Berger PhD thesis

Detecting high spatial variability of ice shelf basal mass balance, Roi Baudouin Ice Shelf, Antarctica

The control of an uncharted pinning point on the flow of an Antarctic ice shelf

Awarded £4162

Jessica FITZSIMMONS (Rutgers University, USA)

Colloidal iron distribution and bioavailability along the West Antarctic Peninsula.

Awarded £4800

Ceridwen FRASER (Australian National University, Australia)

How hot rocks help species survive in cold places: using genetics to test whether small patches of volcanically-warmed earth can support high levels of biodiversity in Antarctica.

Download: Fraser-ASB-Report-May-2016.pdf [2MB]. Publication here.

Awarded £4440

Christopher HAYES (MIT, USA)

Tracing continental input and organic matter export using the long-lived thorium isotopes.

Download: Hayes-2015-Antarctic-Science-Final-Report.pdf [651KB]

Awarded £2380

Anna MIKIS (Cardiff University, UK)

The use of individual planktonic foraminifera from sediment traps to assess seasonal variability along the West Antarctic Peninsula.

Published in 2019: Temporal variability in foraminiferal morphology and geochemistry at the West Antarctic Peninsula: a sediment trap study

Awarded £4730

Tanya RHODES (Waikato University, New Zealand)

The temperature sensitivity of two contrasting Antarctic soils in response to climate change.

ASB_report_O’Neill_Temperature sensitivity Antarctic soil biology

Awarded £3650

Amy SPARKES (Cardiff University, UK)

The initiation of the Antarctic Ice Sheet and the role of Atlantic overturning circulation. A report of this work can be found here.

Awarded £4440

2014

Alison BANWELL (University of Cambridge, UK)

Investigating how chain-reaction drainage of surface lakes triggers ice shelf break-up.

Ice-shelf fracture due to viscoelastic flexure stress induced by fill/drain cycles of supraglacial lakes.

Awarded £3700

Jade BERMAN (Ulster Wildlife Trust, UK)

Southern Ocean Sponges: the link between biogeography and geochemistry.

Demosponges from the sublittoral and shallow-circalittoral (<24m depth) Antarctic Peninsula with a description of four new species and notes on in situidentification characteristics. See paper in Zootaxa here.

Download: Preliminary-report-less-photos.pdf [641KB]

Awarded £5000

Carys COOK (University of Florida, USA)

Tracing the Quaternary evolution of the Antarctic Peninsula and West Antarctic Ice Sheets using lead isotopes in ice-rafted feldspar mineral grains.

Awarded £5000

Jaimie CLEELAND (University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia)

Macquarie Island albatrosses: assessing the environmental and anthropogenic influences on population and demographic status and trends. Publications:

Cleeland et al. 2020. Introduced species and extreme weather as key drivers of reproductive output in three sympatric albatrosses. Scientific Reports 8199 (2020)

Cleeland et al. 2021. Disentangling the Influence of Three Major Threats on the Demography of an Albatross Community. Frontiers in Marine Science 578144

Download: AS_bursary_final_report_JC.pdf [474KB]

Awarded £3800

Claire HUCK (Imperial College, London, UK)

Continental weathering on Antarctica and Southern Ocean productivity across the Eocene/Oligocene boundary – is there a link?

Awarded £4920

Ashleigh MASSAM (British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, UK)

A novel method of determining accumulation rates during the last glacial period at Berkner Island, West Antarctica.

A comparison of annual layer thickness model estimates with observational measurements using the Berkner Island ice core, Antarctica

Awarded £3267

Demian NELSON (University of California, Santa Barbara, California, USA)

High resolution geochronology of the Butcher Ridge Igneous Complex – insight into the timing and duration of the Ferrar Large Igneous Province.

Awarded £4900

Nial PETERS (University of Cambridge, UK)

Powering and Communicating-with Remote Instrumentation on Erebus Volcano, Antarctica.

Awarded £3430

2013

Stef BOKHORST (Alkmaar, The Netherlands)

Are lichen traits drivers of terrestrial arthropodcommunities in Antarctica?

Impact of marine vertebrates on Antarctic terrestrial micro-arthropods

Download: 2013-bokhorst.docx [13KB]

Awarded £3300

Simon CAMERON (Aberystwyth University, UK)

Humans and their hidden companions cross Antarctica.

Download: Simon-Cameron-Bursary-report.pdf [281KB]

Awarded £4500

Richard JONES (Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand)

Unravelling Antarctic deglaciation chronologies using multiple cosmogenic isotopes.

Past and present dynamics of Skelton Glacier, Transantarctic Mountains

Awarded £5000

Anne JUNGBLUT (Natural History Museum, London, UK)

Quantitative PCR evaluation of cyanobacteria in microbial mats of McMurdo Dry Valley Lakes, Antarctica: identification of keystone taxa in benthic foodwebs.

Awarded £3000

Rocio MORENO CARILLO (British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, UK)

Levels and persistence of heavy metals in the Antarctic procellariiform community: a 14 year perspective.

Awarded £4900

Michael POLITO (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Mass., USA)

Has Historic Whale and Seal Harvesting and Recent Climatic Warming Altered the Trophic Ecology of Pygoscelis Penguins Over the Last 200 Years?

Awarded £4600

2012

Hilary Dugan (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA)

Radon as a proxy for subglacial and groundwater input into the Taylor Valley lakes.

Download: Dugan_Report_2013-1.pdf [760KB]

Awarded £4900

Kristen Gorman (Simon Fraser University, Canada)

Assessing breeding population genetic structure of Adelie penguins occurring west of the Antarctic Peninsula.

Population genetic structure and gene flow of Adélie penguins (Pygoscelis adeliae) breeding throughout the western Antarctic Peninsula

Awarded £3700

Charlotte Havermans (Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Belgium)

Phylogeography of lysianassoid amphipods in the Southern Ocean: investigating the missing link of Eastern Antarctica.

Have we so far only seen the tip of the iceberg? Exploring species diversity and distribution of the giant amphipod Eurythenes

Download: 2012-havermans.pdf [484KB]

Awarded £4000

Julia Kleinteich (Konstanz University, Germany)

Temperature effects on genetic diversity of cyanobacterial mats from Adelaide Island, Antarctica.

Diversity of toxin and non-toxin containing cyanobacterial mats of meltwater ponds on the Antarctic Peninsula: a pyrosequencing approach

Awarded £4900

Inka Koch (University of Otago, New Zealand)

Understanding processes of marine ice formation at the southern McMurdo Ice Shelf.

Marine ice recycling at the southern McMurdo Ice Shelf, Antarctica

Download: inka-koch-bursary-report.pdf [95KB]

Awarded £3700

Anne-Mathilde Thierry ( IPHC-DEPE, Strasbourg, France)

Growth and ageing in Adelie penguin chicks facing different environmental conditions.

Download: 2012-thierry.pdf [64KB]

Awarded £4500

2011

Michael Beaulieu (CNRS, Strasbourg, France)

Feeding strategies and mechanisms of behavioural and physiological adaptations of penguins to climatic variability: their limitation and impact on population dynamics.

Awarded £3600



Will Goodall-Copestake (British Antarctic Survey, UK)

Population genetic assessment of Antarctic krill.

Awarded £4700

Jeroen Ingels (University of Ghent, Belgium)

Glacial melting effects on the coastal meiobenthic community at Potter Cove, King George Island: the effect of food availability on meiobenthos respiration and feeding selectivity.

Download: 2011-ingels.docx [26KB]

Awarded £4200

Rebecca Rixon (University of Exeter, UK)

The glacial history of the Antarctic Peninsula ice sheet.

Awarded £3800

Renata Medeiros Mirra (University of Cardiff, UK)

Using molecular techniques to study diet in penguins.

Minimising the limitations of using dietary analysis to assess foodweb changes by combining multiple techniques

Download: R-Medeiros-Research-Project.pdf [358KB]

Awarded £4700

Ramon Gallego Simon (University of Auckland, New Zealand)

Antarctic meoplankton identification: a combined molecular and morphological approach.

The meroplankton community of the oceanic Ross Sea during late summer

Awarded £4500

Victoria Winton (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand)

Provenance of aeolian dust deposited in McMurdo Sound, Ross Sea.

The origin of lithogenic sediment in the south-western Ross Sea and implications for iron fertilization

Download: ASB_report_nov13.pdf [292KB]

Awarded £3300

2010

Glenn Crossin (Simon Fraser University, Canada)

Feather corticosterone as a measure of post-migratory stress physiology and links to breeding fate.

Costs of reproduction and carry-over effects in breeding albatrosses

Download: GTC-Antarctic-Science-Bursary-Report.pdf [448KB]

Awarded £4650



Susana Clusella-Trullas (University of Stellenbosch, South Africa)

Variation in heat shock responses on marine invertebrates of sub-Antarctic Marion Island:effects of acclimation temperature and methodology.

Effects of temperature on heat-shock responses and survival of two species of marine invertebrates from sub-Antarctic Marion Island

Download: ClusellaTrulles-Project-report.pdf [204KB]

Awarded £4450

Laura Grange (University of Hawaii, USA)

West Antarctic Peninsula fjords: benthic community structure and function in climate sensitive systems.

Download: Grange_Bursary-Report_WAP-fjords_DEC-2011_final-1.doc [37KB]

Awarded £4400

Katherine Hendry (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, USA)

Deep-sea sponges as sediment traps:archiving carbon export using zinc isotopes in spicules.

Silicon isotopes in Antarctic sponges: an interlaboratory comparison

Download: Hendry-report2011.pdf [3MB]

Awarded £3665

Bastien Queste (University of East Anglia, UK)

Influence of primary productivity and carbon export on dissolved oxygen in the Ross Shelf sea.

Dissolved oxygen dynamics during a phytoplankton bloom in the Ross Sea polynya

Download: Queste-report.pdf [11MB]

Awarded £3960

Chester Sands (British Antarctic Survey, UK)

Integration of morphological and molecular techniques to facilitate accurate identification of Southern Ocean brittle stars.

Observations of the ophiuroids from the West Antarctic sector of the Southern Ocean

Download: Sands-Report.pdf [35KB]

Awarded £4170

Clare Woulds (University of Leeds, UK)

Sources and the fate of organic carbon in chemosynthetic and other Southern Ocean benthic ecosystems.

Download: Woulds-ASB-Report.doc [2MB]

Awarded £4700

2009

Amber Annett (University of Edinburgh, UK)

For a determination of near-shore mixing rates for a nutrient budget of Ryder Bay by means of short-lived radium isotopes.

Use of radium isotopes to estimate mixing rates and trace sediment inputs to surface waters in northern Marguerite Bay, Antarctic Peninsula

Download: ASB-project-report-Annett.doc [3MB]

Awarded £4100



Timothy Hawes (University of Otago, New Zealand)

To study the effect of UV exposure on the DNA of Antarctic Collembola.

Ultraviolet radiation tolerance of the Antarctic springtail, Gomphiocephalus hodgsoni

Awarded £4526

Nanna Karlsson (University of Hull, UK)

To study the North Polar Ice Cap on Mars.

Testing for flow in the north polar layered deposits of Mars using radar stratigraphy and a simple 3D ice‐flow model

Download: Karlsson_report4.pdf [630KB]

Awarded £1500

Melanie Massaro (University of Canterbury, New Zealand)

To investigate whether fluorescent yellow penguin feathers are reliable indicators of fitness and health?

Download: Massaro-Progress-Report.pdf [86KB]

Awarded £4960

Nerida Wilson (Scripps Oceanographic Institution, USA)

For testing gene flow along the Scotia Arc.

Download: Final-Report-for-Antarctic-Science-Bursary.pdf [750KB]

Awarded £4400

2008

Katherine Hendry (University of Oxford, UK)

To investigate if deep sea sponges provide a record of ocean chemistry.

Silicon isotopes in Antarctic sponges: an interlaboratory comparison

Download: Katherine-Hendry-bursary-research-report-2008.pdf [8MB]

Awarded £4000



Joanne Johnson (British Antarctic Survey, UK)

To fund cosmogenic dating of rock samples from NW Alexander Island to understand glacial retreat.

The deglacial history of NW Alexander Island, Antarctica, from surface exposure dating

Download: JSJohnson_report_180810.pdf [137KB]

Awarded £4994

Kristen Kuhn (Yale University, USA)

To undertake a phylogenetic investigation of the fish genus Trematomus.

Phylogeny of Trematomus (Notothenioidei: Nototheniidae) inferred from mitochondrial and nuclear gene sequences

Awarded £3054

Amelie Lescroel (CNRS, France)

To purchase electronic tags to investigate diving behaviour and foraging areas of juvenile emperor penguins.

Larger foraging range but similar habitat selection in non-breeding versus breeding sub-Antarctic penguins

Awarded £5000

Christian Ohneiser (Otago University, New Zealand)

To measure magnetic properties of mineral grains from the CIROS-2 core at an Italian facility.

Download: Ohneisner-report.doc [29KB]

Awarded £3600

Jan Strugnell (University of Cambridge, UK)

To investigate population genetic structure and cryptic speciation in Antarctic octopus.

Closely related octopus species show different spatial genetic structures in response to the Antarctic seascape

Awarded £4980

Cath Waller (University of Brighton, UK)

To investigate the ecology and physiology of Antarctic inter-tidal communities.

Zonation in a cryptic Antarctic intertidal macrofaunal community

Download: Cath-Waller-bursary-research-report-2008.pdf [906KB]

Awarded £4969

2007

Guilia Airoldi (University of Otago, New Zealand)

To consult on dyke emplacement in oceanic and continental large provinces, and present a paper at IAVCEI in Iceland.

Emplacement of magma at shallow depth: insights from field relationships at Allan Hills, south Victoria Land, East Antarctica

Download: Giulia-Airoldi-bursary-research-report-2007.pdf [10KB]

Awarded £2060



Anna Hey (University of Cardiff, UK)

To present a paper on palaeoclimate reconstructions from the Antarctic Peninsula at ISAES in California.

Download: Anna-Hey-bursary-research-report-2007.pdf [12KB]

Awarded £1194

Elizabeth Mortimer (University of Stellenbosch, South Africa)

To present a paper on the molecular phylogeny of Antarctic ameronothroids at Evolution 2007 in New Zealand.

Growth form and population genetic structure of Azorella selago on sub-Antarctic Marion Island

Awarded £1694

Vanessa Thorn (University of Leeds, UK)

To consult on identifying palynomorphs from Seymour Island, and to present a paper at ISAES in California.

New Zealand sub-Antarctic phytoliths and their potential for past vegetation reconstruction

Download: Vanessa-Thorn-bursary-research-report-2007.pdf [110KB]

Awarded £1341

Ewan Wakefield (British Antarctic Survey)

To purchase satellite tags for tracking foraging in albatrosses.

Download: Ewan-Wakefield-bursary-research-report-2007.pdf [1MB]

Awarded £4729

2006

Victoria Metcalf (University of Canterbury, NZ)

To visit the USA to search for the albumin gene in Antarctic fish genomics libraries.

Download: Bursary-Report-for-Victoria-Metcalf.doc [41KB]

Awarded £4000



Claire McDonald (University of Leeds,UK)

For a study of insect herbivory in Magellanic forests in Chile to compare with Antarctic fossil records.

Download: Claire-McDonald-bursary-research-report-2006.pdf [1MB]

Awarded £2325

Vanessa Thorn (University of Leeds)

To take a course on dinoflagellate cyst identification in The Netherlands.

Download: Vanessa-Thorn-bursary-research-report-2006.pdf [46KB]

Awarded £916

Roberto Pujana (Museo Argentina de Ciencias Naturals, Buenos Aires, Argentina)

To visit the UK to consult collections of fossil wood.

Download: BAS-report.pdf [353KB]

Awarded £2070