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Budget 2021: Scott Base investment 'welcome news'
Date: 2021
Type: In the media
Authors: Newstalk ZB
Summary: As part of the 2021 Budget, $344 million was invested into Scott Base - New Zealand's science headquarters in Antarctica. Antarctic Science Platform director at Antarctica New Zealand Nancy Bertler told Tim Dower the news is amazing.
The science behind remotely navigating a safe route across a crevassed ice shelf
Date: 2021
Type: Learn
Authors: O.J. Marsh, D. Price, Z.R. Courville, D. Floricioiu, Crevasse and rift detection in Antarctica from TerraSAR-X satellite imagery, Cold Regions Science and Technology, 2021,
Have we taken control of Earth’s natural climate cycles?
Date: 2021
Type: Learn
Authors: Programme Leader: Ocean-Ice-Atmosphere Professor Tim Naish
Summary: This article was written by Professor Tim Naish for the Ask a Scientist section of the Otago Daily Times
New research identifies potential tipping points for irreversible loss of the West Antarctic Ice sheet (WAIS) in the Amundsen Sea region
Date: 2021
Type: Learn
Authors: The Cryosphere
March Update
Date: 2021
Authors: Antarctica New Zealand
Summary: Monthly Antarctic Science Platform update
February Update
Date: 2021
Authors: Antarctica New Zealand
Summary: Monthly Antarctic Science Platform update
Scientists accidentally discover life deep underneath Antarctic ice shelf
Date: 2021
Type: In the media
Authors: TVNZ
Summary: Deep in Antarctic waters, underneath a massive floating ice shelf, baffled scientists have discovered life.
More plants could begin to 'invade the Antarctic Peninsula' as the frozen continent warms
Date: 2021
Type: In the media
Authors: Lee Kenny- Stuff
Summary: In February, some of the country’s top Antarctic scientists met in Christchurch to share the latest research on the continent. Reporter LEE KENNY joined the delegates to discover what the future holds for New Zealand’s frozen neighbour.
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2021
- Budget 2021: Scott Base investment 'welcome news'
- The science behind remotely navigating a safe route across a crevassed ice shelf
- Have we taken control of Earth’s natural climate cycles?
- New research identifies potential tipping points for irreversible loss of the West Antarctic Ice sheet (WAIS) in the Amundsen Sea region
- March Update
- February Update
- Scientists accidentally discover life deep underneath Antarctic ice shelf
- More plants could begin to 'invade the Antarctic Peninsula' as the frozen continent warms
- Antarctica could be greener and home to new wildlife, major study of the continent's future finds
- What the future could hold for Antarctica’s unique ecosystems
- January update
- 2021 Tangaroa Voyage: Climate monitoring at key Antarctic ocean gateways
- Kiwi research team first to use planes to measure Antarctic sea ice
- Bird's Icy View
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2020
- December Update
- Change on ice
- 'People say summer is early — that would never happen in a Māori world view' - Stuff
- Climate emergency chance to use evidence-based solutions
- Antarctic scientists support climate emergency
- Cold Call: December 2020
- Official Modelling Hub Opening and Antarctic Science Platform Conference
- Ka pai Caroline
- November Update
- Scott Base staff continue Antarctic scientific project with coaching from New Zealand-based experts
- Icy science, but without the scientists on ice
- A modelling milestone
- Policy implications of Antarctic ice sheet melting and global sea-level research
- A Greener Antarctica
- A Climate Crisis Opportunity?
- October Update
- Welcome to our Antarctic whanau Dr Dan
- PhD Scholarship - Machine learning for uncertainties of past ice-volume changes
- September Update
- Introducing our modelling fellows
- Supercomputers and super cool science
- August Update
- Antarctica's ICEperts - Drilling through the world’s largest ice shelf for a glimpse into the future
- Antarctica's ICEperts - Forays into Frozen Oceans
- New Board members for Antarctica New Zealand
- Antarctica's ICEperts - Diving in Antarctica
- Ice-olation for Antarctica New Zealand
- July Update
- The Warming South Pole
- Kāhui Māori to protect and guide Antarctic as well as climate adaptation research
- Antarctica's ICEperts - a webinar series
- June Update
- Congratulations to the Melting Ice and Rising Seas team
- COVID-19 Impacts Antarctic Field Season
- May Update
- Emotive new documentary episode highlights Antarctica’s global role in sea level rise
- Antarctica New Zealand COVID-19 response update
- April Update
- Two new PhD opportunities with Project Three
- Antarctica New Zealand Update
- Update from the ice
- Antarctica New Zealand COVID-19 response
- Remembering an Antarctic legend
- PhD Scholarship: Distribution modelling of Antarctic species
- From the 2019-2020 Field Season
- PhD Scholarship: Extracting and compiling knowledge of biology across the Ross Sea Region
- Drilling for icy answers
- Field Update - Project 4 - McMurdo Sound
- Field Update - Project 3 - Dry Valleys
- Field Update - Proejct 1 - Ross Ice Shelf
- Field Update - Project 1 - Byrd Glacier
- Field Update - Project 1 - Siple Coast
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2019
- Our new rock-star Professor
- Tsunami report for Scott Base
- Antarctica to London
- Scott Base remembers
- Ten million dollar plan
- Marsden success for Antarctic science projects
- Contestable funding recipients announced
- Welcome Tim Naish
- NIWA PhD Scholarship
- Marvellous modelling
- 60 years of the Antarctic Treaty
- Spotlight on Antarctic science
- Climate secrets buried deep beneath the Southern Ocean
- Millions of dollars for Antarctic research
- Applications open for four three-year research fellowships
- New Chief Executive for Antarctica New Zealand
- Sun sets on another science season
- Youthfull toothfish abound
- Antarctica Unfrozen, a podcast series
- Diving to new depths for Antarctic science
- Congratulations Professor James Renwick
- In memory of Professor David Walton
- Bombs away in Terra Nova Bay
- Sir Ed's temperate legacy
- Antarctic stars in their eyes
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2018