BAS: British Antarctic Survey

Paul Anker

Paul Anker is a drilling engineer responsible for the hot water drill, which will be used to create holes through the Thwaites Glacier for the MELT project. Read More

Rob Arthern

Rob Arthern is a glacier modeller at BAS. He will be responsible for modelling the evolution of Thwaites Glacier, specifically in response to the melt rates at the grounding line determined both by direct observations, and by the grounding zone parameterization to be developed within the MELT project. Read More

Keith Makinson

Keith Makinson is a physical oceanographer at BAS, and is responsible for developing hot-water drills used by BAS. Within MELT, he will be responsible for the hot-water drilled access holes and ensuring instrumentation can be safely deployed through them. Read More

Paul Holland

Paul Holland is an ice-ocean modeller in the Shelf Seas group at the British Antarctic Survey. He will be responsible for coordinating the different modelling components of the project. In particular, he will assist with the installation of the grounding zone parameterization into MITgcm.

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Elena Field

Elena Field leads the UK Thwaites–related map products for the ITGC.

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Nick Gillet

Gillet works at the British Antarctic Survey as Deputy Field Operations Manager, as well as the 2019 deployment Manager of Thwaites offload.

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Tim Gee

Gee is British Antarctic Survey's traverse manager and field leader for traverse logistics.

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Al Davies

Davies supports field logistics for British Antarctic Survey's Operations group.

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