Tag: David Vaughan, Science Director at BAS

• Tuesday, February 13th 2018 - 08:30 UTC

  BAS targets Antarctica marine ecosystem under calved iceberg: nine-country team takes off from Falklands

  

  A team of scientists, led by British Antarctic Survey (BAS), heads to Antarctica this week (14 February) to investigate a mysterious marine ecosystem that’s been hidden beneath an Antarctic ice shelf for up to 120,000 years. The iceberg known as A-68, which is four times of London, calved off from the Larsen Ice Shelf in July 2017.