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HAUWAI 20

Exploration of changing sea ice set for 2025

Date: 2025
Authors: The University of Waikato
Summary: An update on the HAUWAI-20, a first-of-its-kind instrument designed to better understand sea ice as a critical habitat for marine animals and thus uncover the impact of changing sea ice norms on Antarctic marine ecosystems.
Narmillan and Gabrielle

Antarctic researchers awarded funds to foster New Zealand and Australian collaboration

Date: 2025
Type: Press Release
Summary: Two Antarctic research teams have been awarded $20,000 in funding via a new grant to foster collaboration on Antarctic and Southern Ocean research across the Tasman Sea.
Natalie Robinson field camp Oct 2022 Credit Anthony Powell

Call for Expressions of Interest: Māori Research Leader

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Date: 2025
Type: People
Authors: Antarctic Science Platform
Summary: The Antarctic Science Platform is seeking an experienced Māori research leader to provide leadership for the development and delivery of activities in a Mātauranga Māori research programme.
Tangaroa happy crew alina 04 02 2025 Credit Alina Wieczorek NIWA

Tangaroa voyage 2025

Date: 2025
Summary: The Antarctic Science Platform took a leading role in the science programme for the RV Tangaroa's 16th Antarctic campaign, with a priority to enhance the internationally coordinated network of oceanographic observations within the Ross Sea.
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Navigating the ice: Antarctica in a changing climate

Date: 2025
Type: Update
Summary: Registrations for the Antarctic Science Platform’s bi-annual hui are now open.
Antarctic landcape from the air

First-of-its-kind study: How Antarctica’s melting ice sheet could change NZ’s climate patterns

Date: 2025
Type: Update
Authors: NZ Herald
Summary: A first-of-its-kind study suggests the worsening melting of Antarctica’s vast ice sheet could directly drive shifts in New Zealand’s local climate patterns.
Tangaroa

Antarctic research voyage departs Wellington for the Ross Sea

Date: 2025
Type: Press Release
Summary: ASP researchers have set sail for Antarctica on NIWA’s research vessel Tangaroa to continue research into impacts of climate change on Antarctica’s Ross Sea, and the impacts of a changing Ross Sea on the rest of the globe.
Antarctic sea ice

Fund to foster New Zealand and Australian collaboration

Date: 2024
Type: Update
Summary: New Zealand’s Antarctic Science Platform (ASP) and Australia’s Securing Antarctica’s Environmental Future (SAEF) are pleased to open a call for proposals to conduct cooperative research activities in Antarctica and the Southern Ocean.

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