I was reading my copy of Nansen's Farthest North the other day and came across a discussion of The Jeannette Expedition which was led by Lt. Cmdr. George DeLong. Nansen wrote
I wondered if people knew what a water sky was?
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An interesting job? Director of BAS wanted
On twitter this pm is a not unexpected, but rather interesting looking opportunity for those who are confident about their leadership abilities.
[news] NERC seeks new Director for BAS: NERC is looking for a new BAS director; full details are available on th... bit.ly/T577XE
— BAS_News (@BAS_News) December 21, 2012
Follow a couple of links and you end up at a dedicated website called http://www.basdirector.co.uk/index.html
It does have a nice header: 
I know what you are thinking, £95k sounds pretty good, but what would you have to do for it?
The Greenland surface melt story of 2012
[This is a post bringing together things I have done elsewhere whilst learning how to use this platform.]
Back in July 2012 the global news media went very big on a story on the Melting of Greenland.
I got involved in a discussion on twitter about it, with lots of context and decided to have a go at seeing if I could put together a “storyify” on it using the contributions of a wide range of outstanding climate scientists.
Sea ice is not a sterile environment
This morning I posted my 10,000 tweet.
Reduced Sea Ice in the Arctic Spurs Phytoplankton Blooms : satellite pics from summer 2012 1.usa.gov/U1jfEk
— Mark Brandon (@icey_mark) December 11, 2012
Whilst I am not sure if 10,000 is significant, I pointed to the brilliant NASA Earth Observation www site which has a wonderful post today about the reduction of sea ice increasing phytoplankton growth in the Arctic. (Be sure to click the "image comparision" button on that page).
The HoC Science and Technology committee investigate BAS / NOC and NERC
[This is a post bringing together things I have done elsewhere whilst learning how to use this platform.]
I am a huge fan of the Natural Environment Research Council, and used to work for the British Antarctic Survey. It is a fact that in the UK at the moment the community has some very tough funding decisions to make.
NERC decided to investigate saving money through a possible merger of the National Oceanography Centre and BAS. It is fair to say that this was not so well recieved.
