Updates

Date: 2021

Type: Cold Call Article

Authors: Craig Stewart with support from Rowan Howard-Williams

Summary: The Southern Ocean plays a major role in global climate. What happens in this fast-changing region will have huge impacts on New Zealand in the coming decades.

Date: 2020

Type: Cold Call Article

Authors: Antarctic Science Platform

Summary: Cold Call delivers policy-relevant Antarctic science insights. In other words, we’ll bring you hot topics, from the coldest places. And we’ll take care of the logistics: important polar science and policy advances will be translated, summarised with 3-4 updates per year

Date: 2020

Type: Cold Call Article

Authors: Antarctic Science Platform

Summary: Policy relevant Antarctic science updates

Date: 2020

Type: Cold Call Article

Authors: Professor Tim Naish and Associate Professor Richard Levy

Summary: Sea-level rise will affect parts of New Zealand in different ways. Projections beyond 2050 are uncertain, because it depends how fast we act to reduce global CO2 emissions. This uncertainty is a major challenge to decision-makers. Understanding the melting of Antarctica’s ice sheets, a major driver of sea-level rise, is crucial for future planning and policy decision-making.

Date: 2020

Type: Cold Call Article

Authors: Professor Ian Hawes – Antarctic Science Platform Programme Leader

Summary: Green snow is a visible marker of environmental change in polar regions. The colour is due to a group of algae. While conditions for snow algae ecosystems are rare in the Ross Sea sector of Antarctica — it is too cold — snow algae are a good illustration of the complex changes that can happen in fragile ecosystems as climate change accelerates.

Date: 2020

Type: Cold Call Article

Authors: Professor Tim Naish, Professor Andrea Dutton (guest contributor & visiting Fullbright Scholar )

Summary: The global coronavirus pandemic provides a source of hope that we can combat a common threat and that rapid social transformation is possible within a very short time-frame. We need this hope, because global cooperation is essential for tackling climate change. Our world is interconnected, and there is an opportunity to improve environmental and social outcomes as we rebuild from the pandemic.