Halley 60 Year Celebration - 2016

Friday 7th - Sunday 9th October 2016
Park Inn, Northampton

Z-60: Halley Bay, Antarctica: Diamond Jubilee bash!
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Programme

Friday 7 October 2016
18:30 - 22:30Bar open
18:30Carvery dinner in restaurant
19:00 - 20:30Registration open
Saturday 8 October 2016
09:00Registration opens
09:45 - 09:55 Welcome and notices
09:55 - 10:20 John Eager; Halley Station Leader
Halley - The Big Move - Z6 relocation
10:20 - 10:30 Andy Smith
The moving position of the six Halley bases
10:30 - 11:00 Martin Seigert; Imperial College, London
Sub glacial Lake Ellsworth Drilling project
11:00 - 11:30 Tea and coffee
11:30 - 12:00 Tom Jordan; BAS
Aerogeophysical surveying at BAS; mapping the hidden continent
12:00 - 13:30 Lunch
13:30 - 13:40 Jane Francis (via Skype)
Director's address
13:40 - 14:10 David Vaughan; BAS Director of Science
BAS science; present and future
14:10 - 15:30 Karl Tuplin; Z6 project manager presents
Z6 construction movie; a film by Kirk Watson
15:30 - 16:00 Z60 cake tea and coffee
16:15 Group photographs - details in welcome packs
18:00 Bar opens in Buckingham foyer
20.00 Gala dinner in Buckingham room
22.00 Stuart Lawrence
After dinner speaker
22.30 Live link to Halley
23.00 More informal chat in the Buckingham foyer!
Sunday 9 October 2016
10:00 Peter Gibbs; BBC Horizon documentary
Ice Station Antarctica


16 Nov 2016
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