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Elena Field
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GIS & Web Mapping Specialist at British Antarctic Survey.
Cartographer. Geologist. Bookworm. All views my own.
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It has been a busy week for conferences this week! One of our GIS Specialists presented at the IMIA Mapping Leaders Forum in London yesterday. It has been a useful few days talking to some world-leading map publishers and printers and we’ve gained lots of ideas on how we can do more with our maps!
Vivien Godfrey introducing the 2 day event. There are round tables with people sitting around them, and 3 screens at the front. Showing our map of of ‘The Shackleton Crossing’ route on South Georgia to someone. Photo taken by David at SplashMaps. A view of London. Many tall buildings can be seen and the sky is a bright blue. A photo of the News Building with the Shard behind it. The event is taking place at Harper Collins, inside the News Building.
May 15, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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Some of the MAGIC team are at Esri UK Annual Conference today in London. Give us a shout if you want to chat to us 👋
A photo outside the Esri conference, looking towards Westminster Abbey. Flags in the foreground read 'esri UK Annual Conference'. A photo from within one of the talks at the conference centre with a screen showing 'AC25 - GIS - Uniting Our World'.
May 13, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Reposted by Elena Field
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Did you know that some of our key Antarctic topographic data is in Esri's Living Atlas? We regularly update these services so that your maps will always show the latest authoritative data! livingatlas.arcgis.com/en/browse/?q...

For more info: www.bas.ac.uk/media-post/b...
ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World
ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World is the foremost collection of geographic information from around the globe. It includes maps, apps, and data layers to support your work.
livingatlas.arcgis.com
March 26, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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#throwbacktuesday to when our now BCS President Paul Naylor took a break from our conference in 2023 @bas.ac.uk 🤣
March 11, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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The last Twin Otter aircraft has just left Rothera which marks the end of the field season, and gives us a chance to look back at the support we have provided over the year. We started with fieldwork and air unit maps!

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A fieldwork map of the Union Glacier region. Ice thickness is shown in a yellowy-green colour ramp, contours are shown with thin blue lines, and mountain spot heights are given in metres and feet. A map of the Antarctic Peninsula and West Antarctica, with blue sea and white land. Ice shelves are grey. Various depots are shown on the map as pink crosses, and lines are drawn between these points giving distances.
March 7, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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Place names are vital for safe navigation and ensure that features are clearly identified in research and communication - this is a fantastic chance to be involved!
More details below on how to propose a name in British Antarctic Territory & South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands 👇
magic.bas.ac.uk Mapping and Geographic Information Centre @magic.bas.ac.uk · Feb 18
Have you noticed a place without a name during the season? Are you referring to “Glacier A, B or C” in your paper?
The Antarctic Place-names Committee are accepting applications for place names - deadline is 17th March. More information about how to apply is here: apc.antarctica.ac.uk
A screenshot of the Antarctic Place-names Committee website showing a map of Antarctica with many points of place names within the British Antarctic Territory.
February 18, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Reposted by Elena Field
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A new iceberg, ~30x14 km in size, recently calved from the southern end of the George VI Ice Shelf. It's called A84 and is already making quite an impact, bumping into the Stange Ice Shelf over the weekend! These Copernicus Sentinel-1 images from Polar View show the new berg over the last few days.
February 4, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Reposted by Elena Field
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Did you know that MAGIC support the BAS Air Unit with mapping, imagery and also 3D visualisations? Check out Rothera runway, made using the latest drone imagery draped over a digital elevation model! Visualising the runway & obstacle surfaces in 3D helps pilots better understand these remote areas ✈️
January 29, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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🔥New paper! 🧪🔥
Glacial geology of Hudson Mountains, nr Pine Island Glacier, Antarctica 🪨❄️
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
With @cosmokeir.bsky.social @radatmines.bsky.social @shelfyice.bsky.social and others.

Fieldwork with @bas.ac.uk

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Scene in Antarctica, with sledges stacked high with equipment in foreground, sitting on snow. A mountain (dark colour) is visible in the background, against a blue sky. Photo: Joanne Johnson (BAS) A large grey striped boulder with a person lying on the top in a relaxed pose. The boulder is bigger than the person and is perched on yellowish rocks.
January 16, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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🌐 Exciting news! We’re thrilled to announce the release of the new Ice Logistics Portal, providing global sea ice charts from 13 ice & weather services. Explore: www.icelogistics.info

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Ice Logistics Portal
The Global Ice Charts And Sea Ice Information Portal
www.icelogistics.info
January 14, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Reposted by Elena Field
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Work onboard the RRS Sir David Attenborough continues as numerous icebergs drift past to our north. Using a combination of optical and radar satellite imagery, plus regular RPAS flights, we keep watch on any icebergs that might get close enough to interrupt us. Credit Pete Bucktrout & Jamie Oliver.
A photograph taken from a RPAS platform showing the Stange Ice Shelf in the foreground and icebergs in the ocean near the horizon.
January 9, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Reposted by Elena Field
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We work with a range of satellite imagery in MAGIC, allowing us to look at some beautiful areas of Antarctica!

Here's a few recent Sentinel and Landsat images (acquired Nov and Dec 2024, courtesy of Copernicus and USGS).

Can anyone name all of the locations or features? 🧊🎄
A cloudy satellite image with a large white feature shown in a gap in the clouds in the centre, and some snow-covered islands just about visible at the bottom of the image. A satellite image of an icy landscape with ice-covered land shown at the bottom of the image, ice flowing out to sea with rumples and crevasses, and solid sea ice in the top right corner. A satellite image with dark-coloured open water in the top left with icebergs floating around at the edge of some sea ice, and a large white feature taking up the right hand side of the image. A satellite image showing a heavily crevassed/rumpled glacier in the centre of the image, terminating in open water which appears black. Land is surrounding the glacier, also with crevasses and a variety of glaciological features apparent.
December 23, 2024 at 10:55 AM
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Hello! I'm a GIS and Mapping Specialist at @bas.ac.uk in the Mapping and Geographic Information Centre @magic.bas.ac.uk (or MAGIC for short 🪄)

You can learn more about what we do in this cool intro below 👇
magic.bas.ac.uk Mapping and Geographic Information Centre @magic.bas.ac.uk · Dec 12
Hello 👋

We are the Mapping and Geographic Information Centre (MAGIC) at the British Antarctic Survey.

We produce maps of the polar regions, survey wildlife colonies and our stations, and provide the latest sea ice information through custom platforms.

Here's a quick intro to our work!

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An image of a section of Earth from space, covering South America, the South Atlantic Ocean, South Africa, and Antarctica. Antarctica is white and the other is land is green and brown. The oceans are dark blue, with clouds swirling around.
December 12, 2024 at 12:34 PM