Mark Brandon

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Polar Oceans. Open University, UK. Londoner. Proud to work with the BBC on Frozen Planet 2, Blue Planet 2, Frozen Planet & others. Heart always in the ice. MBE. Polar Medal.

Mark Brandon standing in front of a sign saying “Palmer Station”, Antarctica
Dawn over London.
A humpback whale surfacing nexts to a zodiac boat
A tweet showing Jane Rumble OBE has been appointed commissioner of the British Antarctic Territory
Happy person in a boat
An Antarctic iceberg in the Bellingshausen Sea
A mountain in the Lemaire Channel
Antarctic iceberg
Palmer Station, Anvers Island in the background
Mark Brandon standing in front of an iceberg in the North West Weddell Sea
Two touching icebergs in Antarctic sound, Antarctica
Adelie penguins on an a small bergy bit
A view from the ship Island Sky in Drake Passage
A Peale’s dolphin jumping at New Island, Falkland Islands.
A skua cruising above a king penguin colony at Gold Harbour
Harpoon heads in a shed at South Georgia
Gold Harbour, South Georgia
Cape Renard on the Antarctic Peninsula
Screen grab of a leopard seal in the Antarctic
The Errera channel
Sunset over the Melchior Islands.
Sunset over the southern ocean. No filters.
Ship in front of a glacier at South Georgia. King Haakon Bay
Wreck of a small tugboat in Ushuaia
Mark Brandon sitting on a zodiac in the Antarctic.
Gentoo penguins in light snow.
Driving a zodiac boat in Hercules Bay, South Georgia
North coast of the island of South Georgia.
King penguins on Salisbury Plain
Surveying a beach in South Georgia.
Glacier flowing down into King Haakon Bay, South Georgia.
Marine Chart of South Georgia
Black brow albatross
Rockhopper penguin
Dawn rising over the South Atlantic Ocean
Statue outside the Casa Rosada, Buenos Aires
Dolphin in the Firth of Forth
Forth of Forth rail bridge
The Firth of Forth rail bridge on a November evening
Numbers of whales caught in the Southern Hemishphere broken down by species.
The River Cam in Cambridge looking at Trinity Hall College and Kings College in the distance on a sunny November day
A slow cruise up the north coast of South Georgia. Icebergs in the forground, snow covered mountains behind, and a clear blue sky
An image of a dense group of King Penguins
A simple graphic of the earth from space. The sea is white, and the countries are shaded in grey with the borders between them as white lines. The map is centred over the location of India so that it is central to the map. India is the only country on the map shaded green to highlight its area.
A graph of Arctic sea ice extent over the course of a year. On the horizontal axis is months of the year, on the vertical axis is sea ice extent. A solid black line on the graph shows the mean sea ice extent throughout the year based on data from the time period 1981-2010. A grey shaded area around this line is twice the standard deviation of the mean and it represents the range where we could expect the sea ice extent to be based on the climatological data. A dashed black line shows the sea ice extent throughout the year of 2012 which was the year of the current record Arctic sea ice minimum. A solid red line shows the sea ice extent in 2024. The red line ends on 13 November 2024 with a red ball.
A graph of Antarctic sea ice extent over the course of a year. On the horizontal axis is months of the year, on the vertical axis is sea ice extent. A solid black line on the graph shows the mean sea ice extent throughout the year based on data from the time period 1981-2010. A grey shaded area around this line is twice the standard deviation of the mean and it represents the range where we could expect the sea ice extent to be based on the climatological data. A dashed black line shows the sea ice extent throughout the year of 2023 which was the year of the current record Antarctic sea ice minimum. A solid red line shows the sea ice extent in 2024. The red line ends on 13 November 2024 with a red ball.
A picture of the talk title by Dr Sara Caputo at the Royal Geographical Society, London
A plot of Antarctic sea ice extent against month of year showing the mean sea ice extent based on a 1981-2010 average, a grey shaded area which is 2x the standard deviation of the mean. A cyan line shows the extent in 2022, a dark blue line shows the extent in 2023 and a red line the extent in 2024. The most recent data is from 13 August 2024 and the extent is 1.31 milliom km2 below the 1981-2010 mean
AMSR image of the sea ice extent in the Weddell and Scotia Seas. Data from 14 August 2024
a striated caracara coming in to land