Laura Gerrish

@lauragerrish.bsky.social

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GIS and Mapping Specialist at the British Antarctic Survey. Interested in cartography, data visualisation, remote sensing and glaciology ❄️

A grey-scale hillshade of Pourquoi-Pas Island in Antarctica. Mountain ridges can be seen, as well as glacier flowlines. The source data is REMA v2.
A grey-scale SAR image of South Georgia. Mountains can be seen on land, and movements and currents can be seen in the water, affected by wind. The image contains the text "Copernicus Sentinel-1 image acquired 6th July 2025, accessed from icelogistics.info".
A simple map showing a Copernicus Sentinel-2 satellite image from 27th Feb 2025. Lines are overlaid on the image with a red line showing the ice shelf front from November 2024, purple lines showing the grounding line, and blue lines showing the ice coastline.
A satellite image showing a large iceberg as a big white block, and an island in the NE corner with blue-ish sediment blooms coming away from the glaciers on land. There are clouds in the south/bottom of the image.
The front cover of the map, showing a landscape photo of Signy Island with Orwell Glacier in the foreground, looking through Three Lakes Valley to Coronation Island in the distance.
A satellite image showing lots of meltwater pool on an ice shelf in the centre, and rocky outcrops on the left (west) on Alexander Island, and Palmer Land on the right (east).
A very fluffy brown King penguin chick with more adults and chicks behind
A satellite image showing fjords with turquoise coloured water full of glacial flour flowing from the land, interesting glacial ice formations in the top left, and many brown and green islands and peninsulas.
A greyscale hillshade of land and ice shelf with three differently coloured lines (purple, red and blue) showing possible options for the grounding line. The region is Haydn Island.
An extract of a topographic map with blue sea and white land. Multiple place names are shown in the extract, including Isopleth Island, Cape Brown and Hampton Glacier.
Two paper maps laid on a table with blue bathymetry and white land shading