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New Zealand delegation to the Scientific Committee meeting in Hobart

Highlights from the desk of an accidental science 'diplomat'

Date: 2024
Type: People
Authors: Clare I.M. Adams
Summary: Highlights from an early career research scientist’s experience spending a year in a science-policy fellowship position at MPI.
95 288 Craig Potton

Antarctic Science Platform in the news 2022/23

Date: 2023
Type: Update
Summary: In case you missed it, here are some of the media and outreach opportunities our team was involved in during the past year. There were also public talks, school visits and publications in subscription-based magazines.
Sea ice camp 2021/22 by Anthony Powell

Antarctic Science Platform in the News 2021/22

Date: 2022
Type: Update
Authors: Antarctic Science Platform
Summary: In case you missed it, here some of the media and outreach opportunities our team was involved in during the past year.
Drilling through Antarctic ice

‘Hidden world’ of marine life discovered in Antarctic ‘river’ under ice

Date: 2022
Type: Science
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.
Emperor penguins

Antarctica: coming to a postcode near you

Report shows dramatic Antarctic change with global consequences
Date: 2022
Type: Press Release
Authors: Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research
Summary: Climate change is having significant impacts on Antarctica’s ice sheets, climate and life, with far-reaching global consequences, according to a new report from the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) released on May 24 at the Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting in Berlin.
Olivia

Past is prologue – Antarctica in a warming world

Date: 2021
Type: Learn
Authors: Olivia Truax
Summary: Check out Olivia's Fullbright NZ public talk
Olivia

ECR - Olivia Truax Fullbright presentation

Date: 2021
Type: People
Summary: Olivia Truax gives a brilliant and fascinating presentation on how the Antarctic Ice Sheets are changing with climate and what this means for Aotearoa.
Traverse

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,

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