1 November 2011
In his role as the PPS to the Minister for Climate Change, Gregory Barker MP, on Monday George visited the British Antarctic Survey’s (BAS) research facility in Cambridge to talk with senior climate change scientists about how understanding the past climate will help us to understand future patterns.

Based in Cambridge the BAS has for 60 years undertaken the majority of Britain’s scientific research on and around the Antarctic continent. Its headquarters in Cambridge employs more than 400 staff and is part of the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC).

The BAS:
  • Provides a national capability for Antarctic science and logistics.

  • Carries out scientific research, and long-term observations and surveys that cannot be done by anyone else in the UK.

  • Provides a focus for international co-operation and programme co-ordination.

  • Concentrates on issues fundamental to the NERC’s science strategy and the conservation of the Antarctic environment.


Speaking after his tour with Senior Scientists Professor Eric Wolff and Senior Glaciologist Dr David Vaughan, George said:

‘Like many of us I have been glued to the BBC’s Frozen Planet programme. The Antarctic is an area of the earth for which we still have so much to learn. The insights I’ve had today have been fascinating and I congratulate the BAS on their groundbreaking research which is right at the cutting edge of global climate science.”

For more information visit: http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/about_bas/index.php