aurora innovation centre

Innovationat BritishAntarctic Survey

Dr Beatrix Schlarb-Ridley BAS Director of Innovation and Impact

.. under some of the most extreme and hostile conditions on earth.

This requires an innovative spirit in all areas of work!

Our scientific, engineering and operations staff constantly invent

ingenious solutions to help us unlock the past

understand the presentpredict the future.

Pushing the boundaries of knowledge..

We strive to make our expertise available wherever it can be applied – not only in the polar regions:

• Other cold places: Andes / Himalayas• Other remote/inhospitable places: deserts, open

oceans, space research• Transferable technologies: remote sensing, low

power applications• Issues of global relevance: climate change, space

weather, biorenewable resources

..beyond the polar regions

• We seek to make our technologies and expertise visible and accessible to a wide spectrum of stakeholders, and find novel applications.

• We seek partnerships with (interdisciplinary) collaborators from academia, industry, policy and the3rd sector - to expand benefit &reach of our expertise.

• A valuable tool for this is our Innovation Centre:AURORA Cambridge.

Innovation through partnership

Innovation for Planet Earth

• An enabler for BAS to address issues of global importance through partnership• An opportunity for

researchers, government, industry and society to • engage in BAS work• form new links• develop new collaborations• generate wider benefit

Stage D Design

reception

Stage D Design

ground floor exhibition space

Stage D Design

upper floor exhibition space

Stage D Design

150 seat Conference Theatre

1st FloorConferenceFacilities &

Meeting Rooms

Stage D Design of Innovation Centre

1st FloorCollaboration

Centre

Stage D Design of Innovation Centre

Phase 1 – launch 2017

If you’d like to find out more about our facilities please drop us an email.

We’d love to hear from you.

beatrix@bas.ac.uk

maine@bas.ac.uk