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Rapid response to protect penguins from bird flu
Likelihood of H5N1 reaching Antarctica
Date: 2023
Type: Press Release
Authors: Waikato University
Summary: With support from The University of Waikato (UOW) Environmental Research Institute (ERI) and Antarctica New Zealand, ASP researcher Professor Cary undertook a world first survey for bird flu in Victoria Land.
I am a polar oceanographer – this is what I do
Date: 2023
Type: In the media
Authors: The Spin Off
Summary: From his office at NIWA headquarters in Wellington, Antarctic Science Platform scientist Craig Stewart gets updates from the Southern Ocean, where climate change is starting to melt the ice shelves.
Receiving messages from the deep
European Geosciences Blogs
Date: 2023
Type: In the media
Authors: Natalie Robinson
Summary: The Weddell Seal pops his head up through the hole in the floor of the shipping container… for the fourth time today. The shipping container is one of several making up our field camp on sea ice, 40 km from Scott Base – situated on Ross Island, in the south-western Ross Sea. Today I talk about the sub-ice platelet layer, which provides the base for a rich marine environment.
SWAIS2C: Kiwi scientists involved in drill to uncover secrets of Antarctica's past
Date: 2023
Type: In the media
Authors: Radio New Zealand
Summary: New Zealand scientists are planning to drill nearly a kilometre through Antarctic ice and into the earth below, in a bid to answer how much warming the ice sheet can withstand.
Tangaroa voyage: Researchers to unveil Antarctic secrets
Date: 2023
Type: Press Release
Authors: NIWA
Summary: As New Zealanders search for the summer sun, 38 researchers and crew will board RV Tangaroa tomorrow for a six-week science voyage deep into the waters of Antarctica.
‘Hidden world’ of marine life discovered in Antarctic ‘river’ under ice
Date: 2022
Type: In the media
Authors: The Guardian
Summary: Beneath a vast Antarctic ice shelf, in a cathedral-like cavern hundreds of metres high, are swarms of little shrimp-like creatures in a newly discovered underwater ecosystem that, until recently, had remained an ice-locked secret.
A map of the future
Date: 2022
Type: In the media
Authors: Veronika Meduna, New Zealand Geographic
Summary: Sea-level rise doesn’t affect coasts equally—one bay may be drowned while the beach next door remains the same as ever. Predicting sea-level rise needs to take into account tectonic movement of the land, prevailing winds, coastal erosion and Arctic meltwater. Now, the first-ever detailed map of New Zealand’s coastlines shows what may happen.
Exploring Antarctica’s hidden under-ice rivers and their role in future sea-level rise
Date: 2022
Type: In the media
Authors: Craig Stevens and Huw Horgan
Summary: Underneath Antarctica’s vast ice sheets there’s a network of rivers and lakes. This is possible because of the insulating blanket of ice above, the flow of heat from within the Earth, and the small amount of heat generated as the ice deforms.
Archive
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2023
- Tangaroa voyage: Phytoplankton in the Ross Sea
- Passing the baton: Farewell and thanks to Huw Horgan, welcome Dan Lowry
- MBIE’s mid-term review of the Antarctic Science Platform
- Rapid response to protect penguins from bird flu
- I am a polar oceanographer – this is what I do
- Receiving messages from the deep
- February Update
- Cold Call: Edition Five
- January Update
- SWAIS2C: Kiwi scientists involved in drill to uncover secrets of Antarctica's past
- Tangaroa voyage: Researchers to unveil Antarctic secrets
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2022
- December Update
- Independent Science Panel's review of the Platform
- Climate change & international diplomacy in Antarctica
- Survival of emperors depends on emissions reductions
- Fresh understanding of ice age frequency
- November Update
- Richard Levy honoured with a BLAKE Award
- Scientists chart 45 million years of Antarctic temperature change
- Robots race against climate change on seafloor
- Case Study: Scientific advice to international Antarctic Treaty meetings
- Case Study: International cooperation and ocean monitoring in the Ross Sea
- Case Study: Bespoke technology is advancing Antarctic research
- Case Study: Machine learning-assisted meta-analysis of biological research in Antarctica
- Sharing Antarctic Science Platform knowledge
- Highlights from sea ice and carbon cycle feedback research 2021/22
- Highlights from ocean mechanics research 2021/22
- Highlights from Antarctic ice dynamics research 2021/22
- Highlights from ecosystems’ research 2021/22
- Three new professors announced
- Tropical thunderstorms affect Antarctic melting
- Antarctic Science Platform in the news
- June Update
- ‘Hidden world’ of marine life discovered in Antarctic ‘river’ under ice
- A map of the future
- Honour for decades of Antarctic research
- The search for answers in the ice
- Antarctica: coming to a postcode near you
- Cold Call: Edition Four
- Predicting sea level rise for Aotearoa New Zealand
- April Update
- Changes in the Ross Sea and the future of carbon storage
- The Southern Ocean carbon sink: Will it fill up?
- What's going on with Antarctica's weather?
- March Update
- On the Precipice: the climate change target humanity cannot afford to miss
- February Update
- Exploring Antarctica’s hidden under-ice rivers and their role in future sea-level rise
- SCAR early career researcher fellowships
- January Update
- Microbe communities discovered under Antarctica’s Ross Ice Shelf
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2021
- The Bird that measures Antarctic ice
- Cabinet approves new plan for Antarctic and Southern Ocean research
- November Update
- 'Making a difference': Antarctic researchers honoured
- Drilling into Antarctica’s past to see our future
- Searching for answers: Supercooled crystals and fast ice
- Cold Call: Edition Three
- Antarctic science underpins urgency for climate action
- COP26, the IPCC Report and Antarctic Research
- Study reveals climate choices we make in coming decades are make or break – but we won’t see their impact in Antarctica this century
- New ice drilling technology developed in Wellington on its way to Antarctica
- Future of Antarctic plankton linked to sea ice, study shows
- ICSHMO 2022 Call for Abstracts
- Sea Ice Mass Balance Station install 2021
- Cold Call: Edition Two
- Case Study: ASP researchers contribute the IPCC Assessment Report 6
- Case Study: The 2021 ReLiCC voyage of the RV Tangaroa: contributions to the strategic intent of the Antarctic Science Platform
- Platelet Ice: A Unique and Fragile Antarctic Ecosystem
- Antarctic Research and New Zealand’s Climate Future
- The Changing Antarctic and Southern Ocean and Pathway to Policy
- July Update
- Spying on seals from space
- Contestable Funding Round “life changing” for early career researcher
- Past is prologue – Antarctica in a warming world
- Antarctica records its highest ever temperature
- June Update
- May Update
- April Update
- World can expect 50cm sea-level rise by 2100, even if warming stays under 2°C
- ECR - Olivia Truax Fullbright presentation
- 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
- Cold Call: Edition One
- 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
- Case Study: Development of a National Capability for Improving Antarctic Environmental Projections for Evidence-based Decision Making
- Antarctica's ICEperts - Diving in Antarctica
- Ice-olation for Antarctica New Zealand
- Case Study: Development of an international scientific drilling consortium to understand “Stability of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet in a 2°C warmer world” (SWAIS-2C Initiative)
- 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