Summary: The Antarctic Science Platform is seeking a Deputy Director to provide strategic vision and leadership for the design, development and implementation of a second phase of research and funding.
Summary: A three-year PhD scholarship is available to support an emerging Māori student interested in using modern genetic research tools to understand environmental change and ecosystem responses in the Antarctic.
Summary: The drilling project will be the first-ever attempt to obtain a long sedimentary record from well-below the seafloor in West Antarctica. This is ‘discovery science’ - there remains great uncertainty around the age and nature of what will be recovered.
Summary: A newly developed infrared and visible camera system, a thermal bird, has been used to survey different Antarctic surface environments in the McMurdo Dry Valleys.
Summary: The Antarctic Science Platform is seeking expressions of interest for a Deputy Chair for the Platform Steering Group. The Deputy Chair will take a governance leadership role in transitioning the Platform to a second tranche of funding which begins on 1 July 2025.
Statement from the first-ever international conference of the Southern Ocean Observing System (SOOS)
Date: 2023
Authors: SOOS Symposium and Antarctic Science Platform
Summary: Hundreds of international scientists have sounded a clarion call for urgent expansion of Southern Ocean science in the emerging climate crisis. A joint statement from the SOOS Symposium says that no nation alone can provide the research needed to address the climate questions facing us. The Antarctic Science Platform is working with international partners to improve observations at critical locations in the Ross Sea.