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Mark Brandon • December 21, 2012

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… http://t.co/eCHWDIsv

— British Antarctic Survey 🐧 (@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?

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Posted in Science. Tags: BAS, British Antarctic Survey, Dream job, Natural Environment Research Council, NERC, polar on December 21, 2012 by Mark Brandon. icey_mark • December 7, 2012

[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.

The story in the Observer

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Posted in Science, Storify, twitter. Tags: Antarctic, BAS, British Antarctic Survey, National Oceanography Centre, NERC, NOC, polar, policy on December 7, 2012 by icey_mark.